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3 unusual facts about Fourth wall


Fourth wall

The metaphor of the fourth wall has been applied by literary critic David Barnett to The Harvard Lampoons parody of The Lord of the Rings when a character breaks the conventions of storytelling by referring to the text itself.

Kid Auto Races at Venice

Unusually the camera breaks the fourth wall to show a second camera filming (as though it were the first), to better explain the joke.

The Big Store

There is one gag which breaks the fourth wall, during the "Sing While You Sell" sequence: while Groucho is narrating a fashion show, he asides "This is a bright red dress, but Technicolor is so expensive."


The Mystery of the Missing Hour

At the beginning of the fourth episode, in a fourth wall breaking moment in which they play themselves, Cate Debenham Taylor says to Sarah Douglas, "I thought I recognised your name. Weren't you the baddie in Superman II? I used to love that film!"


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EXIT Theatre

Early plays at EXIT Theatre include Sadie’s Turn (the first full length play by noted Native American poet Mary TallMountain), Mystery of the Fourth Wall (the West Coast premiere in 1989 of Mary Zimmerman), and Like (the first full production of beat poet Diane di Prima’s 35-year-old sound play).

Onestop Media Group

In early 2004, Fourth Wall approached the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), through then static advertising incumbent, CBS Outdoor (then named Viacom Outdoor) with a new concept of digital signage as an information network, that was 100% supported by ad dollars.

In the summer of 2004, the TTC awarded the rights to a pilot and eventual contract to Fourth Wall, that then spun off the digital signage subsidiary, Onestop Media Group to handle the Toronto Transit Commission and all future digital signage contracts.