Photograph of old train station which was located where the Metro store now stands in downtown Trenton. (Photo submitted by Sean Scally)
Quinte West’s Economic Development Committee likes the work local filmmaker and photographer Sean Scally has been doing bringing the area’s history to life and is recommending city council continue supporting his work this year.
Scally headed up the creation of “Playing with Fire”, a historical film about the 1918 explosion of the munitions plant in Trenton and another titled “Lumberbaron: The Gilmour Years”.
Local filmmaker Sean Scally. (Photo: Quinte News)
He received financial support from the city for those films and now he has two more in production. One will be called “Ritchie’s Folly” and will tell the story of the now defunct Central Ontario Railway.
The other is titled “Sons of Waves” and is a story about the HMCS Trentonian, a Corvette class Royal Canadian Navy ship that served in the Second World War and was sunk by a torpedo hit in 1945, killing 6 crewmembers.
The committee recommended council provide Scally with $1,000 for each film. Total cost of production is estimated at $4,000.
HMCS Trentonian. (Photo: Wikipedia)
