While Ren is waiting for a USEful answer to his question, instead of a theoretical one, I'll see if I can plunk in here, some pics from the video. That'll help some of you who don't have access, see what the rest of us are talking about. Even tho the quality of my pics is really low, they should be better than nothing at all.

I wish I had my iMac set up so I can handle vid caps. But I've got other promises and priorities to keep. There's just a limit to how many things I can do in life. So many fun things, so little time.

Well, you know, Bob, you get used to being shut out of a lot of videos and earlier episodes for various TV shows. Even if the series or the network is in Canada too, we still get shut out. OWN is in Canada too but we can't see that video. Typical!

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Roger

Ever since I became a fan back in 1998, and read bios on Shania, I always felt there was something much deeper in her childhood than we were ever going to know about. Watching this show and reading the autobio have confirmed that, and how! It is simply amazing how she has survived considering all that went on when she was growing up. I have the utmost respect for where she's been and where I am sure she is going now. I will never forget what she said when CTV did that movie on her life "Shania, A Life In Eight Albums", She said something like: "they will never get it right, they can't because they really don't know what happened". I am nearly half-way through the book now, and I have to admit that Eilleen Twain has got a lot of guts to share her very tough life growing up with the world.

I think if I remember right, that in the Behind The Music episode for Shania, it told about a couple [can't remember their names] who took her to Nashville before Mary Bailey did and on the way home, the wife literally threw Shania out of the car for arguing. To someone not familiar with Shania, they would probably look at her as a spoiled brat. But, in reading this book, you see that, yeah maybe she was a little testy in those days, but going through what she did as just a kid you can see why she might act that way. I'm not judging her for this, I'm just saying now I can understand where she was coming from. It's also obvious she was well on her way to her throat closing up long before Nashville, Mutt and divorce. Those things just piled on until that was it.

Steve

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Nice summary there Steve. I agree with your perspective and appreciate your candor.

Pre-rehearsal.

The Shania Twain Centre Manager is up against the wall, by the door, next to the tall guy with orange sleeves and gray center.

Carrie is 2nd from right, getting fitted with a microphone, by one of the aides.

There may be others whom you know in the photo.

Shania is saying:

"Is this where I sit?"

Other posters can fill in the text from the video if they wish. I don't recall it all, from seeing it yesterday.

A guy behind the camera, can make an important difference. Some of the intimate, personal, funny, informal and spontaneous footage in these videos, would never have been possible, without him.

I was surprised to see Eilleen, skipping around like a totally relaxed little girl, in some of the scenes I'll post later.

However in this scene, for the rehearsal, at the reconstructed Maple Leaf Hotel inside the Shania Twain Centre, Eilleen talks about being very nervous. Singing and performing again for the first time in front of others, was a really huge hurdle for her to overcome. I'm glad she had help. It was a bit hard to watch her stress levels at times. But the beginning of the return of her music, was worth it, at least for me. She's definitely not a complete whiz at it yet. But you can see the potential for recovery. And it's such a pleasure to know that "the sky's the limit."

Eilleen's voice is doing a short, voice-over narrative here. Describing some aspects of her process needed to get back to music. There are many parts to it, tho insensitive types may not want to hear it. I thought it was a nice image. A colorful nugget about a golden individual, in rather rough terrain.

Don't recall whether she's writing music there, or writing her autobiography.

The older of Two Twain sisters, emerges from the bus, near the STC, into the crisp autumn air, for an early morning run. She carries a scarf with her. Then calls back to Carrie, that it's not too bad out here (temperature-wise). So she won't need the scarf.

Jogging down memory lane. Or is it melody lane? Might be Shania Twain Lane, whatever the name of the driveway, from the STC parking lot, out to Brunnette Rd.

The video shows a large, metal, double gate now. I think it might be at the end of the parking lot and beginning of the driveway. Shania stepped quickly and lightly through that, and did a little skip on the other side, while Carrie struggled more slowly through the opening. Her legs were shorter, and she kinda got hung up, like in the middle of a teeter-totter.

They ran at a fairly good pace. I would guess about 6 miles per hour, the same pace I use nowadays, for my 3 mile runs.

After the run, they stop by McDonalds, where they used to work, "just to see what happens" Eilleen said.

The McDonald's rep. sticks her head out to see why anybody would 'walk up' to the "drive up" window.

Next instant, the Two Twain sisters are skeedaddling out of the way, because a car is coming up to pickup what they ordered are the prior window.

And shortly after that, a police car drives up.

Uh-oh!

And Eilleen says the workers inside must have called the police, about the commotion with camera and people at their drive-up window.

Are they gonna get hauled away to jail?

As some nervous giggling and conversation takes place, the police car goes on by.

Eilleen notices that he didn't pick up any food, so he must have just come to check the situation out, and be sure there was no robbery or other skullduggery going on. The policeman opens his window as he goes by and Eilleen say "Hi" to him, on his way past.

No arrests were made. Not even any interrogation.

Here the Two Twains are off on a poutain* adventure, but without their brother Mark Twain, nor his famous namesake, the writer of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.

Some may remember Chez Nous. I've seen the place, but didn't remember the name.

I can't imagine driving around town, or finding parking space with a set of wheels as big as that bus.

In several of the videos, it's obvious the bus is rolling along, as the Two Twains engage each other in colorful conversation, even on rare occasions, including the man behind the camera.

So who's driving the bus? I doubt it's on auto pilot.

Did see a neat idea on the "Red Green Show" the other night for a moment while channel hopping tho. He had a large tire bolted under the center of his vehicle. When it was time to park, or unpark from a too-tight parking space, he inflated the tire, which lifted the vehicle in the air, rotated the vehicle, then let the air out, and drove off. Pretty slick. But for a bus, you'd probably need a tire the size of an earth mover. I used to drive earth movers, and road graders, and bull dozers, and semi trucks. But never a bus.

Uh-oh! Roger informs me several hours later, that my French is more imprecise than I knew. And I only knew a few words to begin with. The artery clogging food I was trying to identify, is "poutine", not 'poutain'. To spell in American English, what a French word sounds like in Timmins Canada, is tempting fate. I'll bet Claudine from France, knows how close I came to accidentally starting an embarrassing rumor there, with my mispelling. Ay Yi Yi! Or maybe I should stick to "Ach du lieber", from my own ancestral Swiss. Unfortunately, I know even less of that. My apologies to the Twain sisters, and the cameraman, and the bus driver, for my near miss.

The Two Twains at Poutine window. It's tasty stuff. Eilleen says have to be careful, it's fattening. This is inside Chez Nous. I see the film editors have blurred out the faces of the customers at left, either for liability or tact, or both.

Eilleen has her hands behind her back. This is a gesture of deference that I've seen among polite northern Ontario-ans in Timmins. But here, she might be doing it, just to keep out of the way, so the video camera can get a good view of the window, her sister, etc.

Somewhere in one of these videos, might be at this window, Carrie asks Eilleen, "Are you gonna serve?" Knowing Carrie, it's possible she was asking a serious question. But Eilleen took it as a tease, and laughingly said "What kind of a question is that?"

This is actually the 2nd of 3 or 4 trailer videos on OWN website, from the link in the email I received.

The first link is a pic with the Two Twain sisters.

The 2nd link is a pic of a green sign, about poutine, I think inside Chez Nous.

I'd have to go back and see what the other pic/links were.

Here Carrie is trying a new way through the gate, back into the STC parking lot or drive, as Eilleen watches in bemused amazement.

Carrie got hung up on the way out, trying to follow her longer legged sister thru the center part of that gate, over the connecting bar.

I'm not sure this method was much better. Sort of looks like she's sliding thru an oversized mail chute, in a giant door there.

I suppose the STC could get that much mail, back in it's early days. But I bet they never got such a live package of human cargo like this, before.

OOOOFF!!

Well, that's it for me for now.

Somebody else can fill in the blanks on the transcript text, or corrections. I don't have the time.

Have an air conditioning service person coming tomorrow. I just moved in, and have so many unpacked boxes everywhere, the A/C guy will hardly be able to get thru safely.

This posting and commenting was a lot of fun. But there'll be heck to pay tomorrow, and if I don't get my info and decisions right, it'll be hotter than Hades here this summer, and possibly beyond.