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Your Life: Art Collins, former president of Foster Advertising, watches the personalized video that was custom made for his retirement party. This video and others like it are the creation of Bob Pomerantz, who has formed a company called Your Life Productions. The videos are commissioned by either a company or family.
Your Life: Art Collins, former president of Foster Advertising, watches the personalized video that was custom made for his retirement party. This video and others like it are the creation of Bob Pomerantz, who has formed a company called Your Life Productions. The videos are commissioned by either a company or family.

Your Life: Art Collins, former president of Foster Advertising, watches the personalized video that was custom made for his retirement party. This video and others like it are the creation of Bob Pomerantz, who has formed a company called Your Life Productions. The videos are commissioned by either a company or family.

Date10/7/1988
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  • Your Life: Art Collins, former president of Foster Advertising, watches the personalized video that was custom made for his retirement party. This video and others like it are the creation of Bob Pomerantz, who has formed a company called Your Life Productions. The videos are commissioned by either a company or family.
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Quality fare: Hy Sarick, who co-owns The Children's Book Store Audio and Video store, has no fear that videos will drive kids away from books.
Quality fare: Hy Sarick, who co-owns The Children's Book Store Audio and Video store, has no fear that videos will drive kids away from books.
Lennon, Frank
11/30/1988
Labor of love: Pamella Amster and Gerald Beeston, owners of After Dark, started their specialty store because We used to go to video stores and we used to get angry because there weren't any videos that we liked, Amster says.
Labor of love: Pamella Amster and Gerald Beeston, owners of After Dark, started their specialty store because We used to go to video stores and we used to get angry because there weren't any videos that we liked, Amster says.
Stawicki, Andrew
1/29/1989
Street talk: Social worker Stan Chong, centre, chats with Stewart, left, and Stephen at video parior in Scarborough. Chong's job is to cruise the city's youth hangouts in search of the unemployed who have either been forgotten by the system or have simply opted out. Once he locates them, he advises them on how to go about finding a job.
Street talk: Social worker Stan Chong, centre, chats with Stewart, left, and Stephen at video parior in Scarborough. Chong's job is to cruise the city's youth hangouts in search of the unemployed who have either been forgotten by the system or have simply opted out. Once he locates them, he advises them on how to go about finding a job.
Dunlop, Al
2/22/1984
Designing computer: Project specialist Jim Crichton uses a computer hooked up to a video display terminal to produce designs at a Hamilton metal working firm. A Canadian Manufacturers' Association survey has found most companies do not use computerized drafting.
Designing computer: Project specialist Jim Crichton uses a computer hooked up to a video display terminal to produce designs at a Hamilton metal working firm. A Canadian Manufacturers' Association survey has found most companies do not use computerized drafting.
Beaty, Keith
3/4/1982
Bill Meloche: His company used video, slides and print to create motivational shows.
Bill Meloche: His company used video, slides and print to create motivational shows.
Spremo, Boris
8/6/1985
Max Gordon: The investigator for the Ontario Film and Video security Office of the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association holds an illegally copied video cassette of E
Max Gordon: The investigator for the Ontario Film and Video security Office of the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association holds an illegally copied video cassette of E
Cooper, David
4/20/1988
Video teacher: Paul Thompson, a professor at the University of Toronto's Scarborough campus, and Janis Wood, from the campus' registration office, look at some of the equipment used in video teaching
Video teacher: Paul Thompson, a professor at the University of Toronto's Scarborough campus, and Janis Wood, from the campus' registration office, look at some of the equipment used in video teaching
Dunlop, Al
7/10/1981
Video memories: Journalist Paul McLaughlin conducts a video-taped interview with his mother-in-law Doreen Splawinski for his daughter Arianna
Video memories: Journalist Paul McLaughlin conducts a video-taped interview with his mother-in-law Doreen Splawinski for his daughter Arianna
Loek, Dick
9/26/1987
Smile! You're on video: Programmer Marien Lewis and technical co-ordinator Chris Holland of the Hot Nights series at the new Bam Boo Club are thrilled by response to their video festival
Smile! You're on video: Programmer Marien Lewis and technical co-ordinator Chris Holland of the Hot Nights series at the new Bam Boo Club are thrilled by response to their video festival
Beaty, Keith
9/13/1983
Three Tonnes of Art. Alastari Fernie, left, president of Standard Life, discusses the sculpture Megapters, which the company commissioned for its Toronto office, with the sculptor, George Schmerhoiz, and Ed Quigg, Standard LIfe's vice-president, property
Three Tonnes of Art. Alastari Fernie, left, president of Standard Life, discusses the sculpture Megapters, which the company commissioned for its Toronto office, with the sculptor, George Schmerhoiz, and Ed Quigg, Standard LIfe's vice-president, property
Bull, Ron
5/20/1993
Love of obscure: If it's weird you're after, check out David Kiner's Outer Limits video store
Love of obscure: If it's weird you're after, check out David Kiner's Outer Limits video store
Bull, Ron
10/20/1988
Fantasy feeder: Star reporter Ellie Tesher and Jack Fine, who stocks up to 25 video games in some of his 23 Bowlerama outlets, have some fun playing one of the sets. In Canada, about 1,200 middle men buy and service the machines, which are leased to tens
Fantasy feeder: Star reporter Ellie Tesher and Jack Fine, who stocks up to 25 video games in some of his 23 Bowlerama outlets, have some fun playing one of the sets. In Canada, about 1,200 middle men buy and service the machines, which are leased to tens
Stuparyk, Michael
1/26/1982