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one of the three printing services in Canada. Also a studio and printing service is Associated Screen News of Montreal. Shelly Films of Toronto, pro¬ ducers and printers, have no studio space.
In 1948 the $2,500,000 Renaissance Studios, ranked by some as the third largest motion picture production plant in the British Commonwealth, was open¬ ed in Montreal by J. A. DeSeve and associates, in May, 1951 it went into the hands of the receivers and was sold.
The Quebec studios have turned out a number of French and English-lan¬ guage features, while others, among them Crawley Films of Ottawa, make industrial and educational short sub¬ jects in limited studio space.
Canadian studios and individual pro¬ ducers, particularly those who are members of the Association of Motion Picture Producers and Laboratories of Canada, expect domestic television re¬ quirements to help find them a full-time place in our motion picture economy. Each studio already has a working arrangement with a radio station for the production of television material.
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A ND so ends this comparatively brief ^ history of a field of endeavor which
has proved of value in the development of our country and must, because of the nature of its commodity, play an even greater role in the accentuated eco¬ nomic and intellectual growth now tak¬ ing place.
“It seemed advisable, even in its in¬ completeness, to get this record into the safekeeping of the printed word now, in view of the passing of the pioneers and the ephemeral character of much of the important source material,” wrote Terry Ramsaye in his Preface to “A Million and One Nights,” which was issued in 1926 by Simon & Schuster, NY. How true that was then and how much truer now! Even while this compilation was in work two men who made im¬ portant but completely different con¬ tributions to our history passed on — John C. Green and J. P. Bickell. It is a fact that no organized record of the development of the Canadian motion picture industry and the experiences of its pioneers is to be found in any of Canada’s many private and public lib¬ raries.
Perhaps this account will make that a little less true. If it is of interest to some Canadians now and of use to others in the future, then the trouble of preparing it will have been worth while.
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