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No customers allowed in Warren cafeBY KELLY LANGEVIN__A cafe near Warren recently opened, but it will not be serving food to its customers. That's because this run down cafe has neither food nor customers.It took less than a month to build the cafe that will serve as one of the main sets for the Na-tiona Film Board production of “Bordertown Cafe”, but looks like its been there for 60 years. .Builders had to scour the countryside for delapitated materials for its construction.Cafe owners in Warren, the teal ones, are pleased about the new cafe because it will mean more business for them.The “new” cafe will be open for only two months, after which it will be closed permanently, and likely torn down.' Sounds like a lousy way to run a business, perhaps, butthat’s show business.Last Thursday, the owners and operators of the “Bordertown Cafe” were on hand to answer questions about this new business in Warren.The cafe is actually a propbuilt on John and Carmen Mircault’s wheaifield near the outskirts of Warren. It will be used to shoot scenes for the film “Bordertown Cafe” to be filmed on the Mireault property this fall.The film is produced and directed by Gimli-raised Norma Bailey. Bailey is familiar with the Warren area, having lived in Marquette in her childhood. Her father was also a resident of Meadow Lea for many years.The film producer wanted to capture the look of a cafe built on a farm near the Alberta-Montana border, the setting where the comedy drama takes place. Film locators were unable to find an already-built cafe that suited their needs. Instead they found the Mireault household, which will be used to shoot the home scenes for the movie, while the cafe scenes will be shot at the cafe built just down the road from their property.Wooden shacks are also being built along the roadside near the cafe to represent the Canada-U .S. customs officer quarters.Nostalgic cafeProduction designer John Blackie said the cafe was built to ' look like a nostalgic roadside cafe from the 50’s.“We scavenged wood and old metal. We looked for anything we could get that would go with a look of being aged 30 or 40 years.”But the new cafe, built for about $15,000, also has functional qualities in the building that conform to movie-shooting requirements. The windows of the cafe, for instance, were positioned so that sunlight would not reflect back into the cameras.The film is a joint production of Winnipeg’s Flat City Films, Toronto’s Cinexus-Famous Players Entertainment, and the National Film Board of Canada.Susan Hogan and Sean McCann of the CTV series Night Heat will be cast in the film along with actors Gordon Woolvett, Janet Wright, and Nicholas Campbell.Filming is expected to run from mid-August to early October.
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Stonewall Argus and Teulon Times
Stonewall, Manitoba, CA
Wed, Aug 22, 1990
Page 22
Full Page
Clipped by
Edward L.
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