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PRODUCTION
Motion Picture Production for 1959 by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Prepared in the Wholesale Trade and Services Section, Industry and Merchandising Division
Summary Statistics of Private Industry Motion Picture Production
Gross Revenue
Year
No. of Firms
No. of Employees
Salaries and Wages
Production
Printing and Laboratory
Other
Revenue
s
S
S
s
1952
30
386
1,006,918
1,331,393
1,274,137
II)
1953
32
387
1,150,890
1,592,779
1,230,493
II)
1954
45
478
1,549,233
2,106,131
1,456,405
1,328,021
1955
46
445
1,460,421
2,456,038
1,051,673
512,727
195612)
59
1,127
2,483,910
3,726,557
2,095,985
423,899
1957
58
1,216
2,758,560
4,471,710
2,978,626
469,369
1958(3)
52
1,133
2,770,375
3,902,780
3,344,948
421,975
1959
54
1,365
3,471,347
5,085,690
3,229,240
389,480
(I) Not available. 12) Figures from 1956 include laboratories with no motion picture production. They are not included in the figures for prior years. (3) Revised.
Gross revenue of private production and printing firms in 1959 was $8,704,410, an in¬ crease of $1,034,707. There were 514 films made of five-minute length or over by private industry. Adaptation or language versions of original films in the 514 totalled 40 for television and 15 for other non-theatrical use, with I I of these made for other than Canadian sponsors. Adaptations or language versions of five minutes and over reported by government agencies were 20 for theatres, 10 for television and 61 for non-theatri¬ cal use, with one of these made for other than
Canadian sponsors.
Private industry and government agencies printed 47,978,205 feet of 16 mm. film, 307,694 more than in 1958, and 21,200,275 feet of 35 mm. film, which is 3,227,335 less. Since 35 mm. film is used in theatres the decline is a reflection of the reduced number of features being made. Another factor might be the closing of theatres, making fewer prints necessary. Some 7,802,333 feet of the 16 mm. films was printed in color. The foregoing figures were compiled by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics.
THE above statistics, for 1959, are the latest available. The Industry and Merchandising Division of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics explained that only from 50 to 60 per cent of the producers and laboratories from whom information was requested had returned the question¬ naires up to our press time. This is the first time that has happened since the inception of the annual report, which be¬ gan in 1952. The 1959 figures are there¬ fore reprinted.
Earlier this year the Government, at the suggestion of the Association of Mo¬ tion Picture Producers and Laboratories
of Canada, placed a 20 per cent duty on commercials. This has caused New York producers to rent facilities in Canada and make them here but the extent to which Canadian producers have been helped directly is still to be determined.
Reference to feature film production in Canada can be found in N. A. Taylor’s The Year in Review in this edition. Studios are being erected in North Van¬ couver by Commonwealth Film Produc¬ tions and shooting of all types of films are to begin in the Spring of 1961. Sev¬ eral features have been announced for production in the next year.
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