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The music for “Let’s All Go To the Franklin” was published in the Ottawa Journal as part of“Franklin Week” in September 1929.

Rudolph Pelisek obituary. Second page missing from microfilm.

A praiseful short biography of Horace Wilson's training and achievements.

An illustrated advertisement for 1918 showings of the controversial 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation" at the Regent Theatre featuring "Original Effects" and a "Big Orchestra."

The interior of the Flower Theatre with a Wulitzer Motion Picture Orchestra organ below the screen. A rare example of a photograph of a theatre’s interior and instrument being featured in an advertisement.

An article announcing a series of dance lessons on screen at the Centre theatre.

The first of three times this image of the Regent Orchestra would be featured in the Ottawa Journal between 1917 and 1918. A rare example of putting cinema musicians front and centre in a newspaper advertisement. Click here to learn more about this…

Early notice of films being shown at the Russell Theatre.

A framed photograph of Amédée with the signature, "P. A. Tremblay", appearing at the bottom.

Photograph of the Regent Concert Orchestra of the 1917-1918 season. From left to right: Joseph Pelisek (violin), Amédée Tremblay (piano and organ), Julius Hillas (clarinet), Rudolph Pelisek (violin), Horace Wilson (organ), Robert Richard Wimperis…