Firth’s production company is currently working on another war epic, “Operation Mincemeat” and Beck says the company has asked permission to use 20 of the University’s maps for that project. I probably will be watching tomorrow.”Ĭolin Firth plays the fictional General Erinmore in the movie, the officer who sends the soldiers on their mission. “It depends on if I’m really interested in the movies that are up for awards that year.
MACMASTER UNIVERSITY MAP MOVIE
So then to go to a movie theatre and see that on the screen is kind of like seeing a familiar face in a crowd, in a place it shouldn’t be,” Beck said.Īnd while Beck admits that watching the Oscars isn’t always a top priority for him, he said he will be tuning in on Sunday night. So they're almost like family members, or like children. “I’ve been working with these maps since 2003, so about 17 years. The map is featured in an early scene in the film, and helps drives the story.īeck said that as he watched the film, the sight of the map itself was surreal. Two British soldiers are assigned to cross the Western Front in a desperate rescue mission that takes them deep into enemy territory to save a battalion of 1,600 soldiers.
The film, which is up for ten Academy Awards, is loosely based on a story told by director Sam Mendes’s grandfather, who served in the war. “This one in particular is actually concerned with showing where enemy German units are located.” Gord Beck is McMaster University’s Map Specialist and he showed CTV News Toronto the map during an interview Saturday. The more than 100-year-old map of the British and German trenches along the Western Front is among the 20,000 that have been digitized and uploaded to McMaster University’s archives and was spotted by the film’s production company. Cross King Street onto Sterling Street and proceed up Sterling Street to the McMaster campus.A map of France from the First World War featured in the Oscar-nominated film “1917” has a Canadian connection. exit, At the traffic lights, at the top of the ramp, turn left and then immediately right on Newton Avenue. Take Highway 403 towards Hamilton and exit as described about in the Directions coming from Toronto. Catharinesįollow the Queen Elizabeth Way over the Skyway Bridge as though going on to Toronto. Just after one enters Hamilton, there is an exit on the right for McMaster University. Proceed along King Street straight through the town and this will become Highway 102 Cootes Drive. Take the Main Street West exit and proceed as described for those coming from Toronto. Take Highway 6 to the point where it meets Highway 403 and proceed towards Hamilton. Turn right onto Sterling and proceed along Sterling to McMaster University. Turn left on King Street and go to the second traffic light. After coming off Highway 403, proceed along Longwood Road to King Street.
Take Highway 403 to the Aberdeen Avenue exit. Alejandro Elorriaga Claraco – Program Directorĭirections from southern Ontario cities: From Brantford
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