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PRODUCTION
THE 32 private commercial firms actively engaged in the production and printing of motion pictures during 1953 employed 387 persons and these received salaries and wages amounting to $1,150,890, said the Do¬ minion Bureau of Statistics. Total gross revenue increased eight per cent from $2,605,530 in 1952 to $2,823,272 in 1953. Of this latter amount $1,592,779 was from production and $1,230,493 from printing. Revenue from production was 20 per cent higher than in 1952 but printing revenue showed a slight de¬ cline of three per cent. Television com¬ mercials were a major factor in raising the revenue.
During 1953 private industry complet¬ ed the production of two feature-length films, 1 1 theatrical shorts and an impos¬ ing figure of 297 non-theatrical films of five minutes or longer. Of the 1 1 theatri¬ cal shorts, two were adaptations or lan¬ guage versions of the original films. In the non-theatrical field, 26 of the 297 productions were language versions or adaptations, 50 of them were produced primarily for television use and nine were made for sponsors outside Canada. In addition to the above, private industry produced 191 television commercials, 1,161 theatre trailers, 518 newsreel stories of which 289 were for theatres and 229 for television, 48 silent filmstrips and 27 filmstrips with record.
Of the 55 theatrical shorts completed in 1953, 48 were in black and white.
all were sound films and 33 were in English. Non-theatrical films shot in black and white numbered 261 out of the 481 completed in 1953. Seventy-five of this total were silent films. Of the 406 sound films, 281 were in English, 109 in French and 16 in other lan¬ guages.
The information presented in the section dealing with government pro¬ duction is based on replies from nine agencies. During 1953 these agencies completed 44 theatrical shorts and 184 non-theatrical productions of five minutes or longer. Twenty-two of the theatrical shorts and 80 of the non-theatrical films were language versions or adaptations. Of the non-theatrical films, 66 were pro¬ duced primarily for television use. In addition to the above, government agen¬ cies made five television commercials, 11 theatre trailers, 78 newsreel stories of which 58 were for theatrical use and 20 for television, 32 silent filmstrips and four with a record.
Employment and revenue figures on government production were not re¬ quested.
What is the total value of Canadian production in all its phases? The DBS report doesn’t give a consolidated figure for private and government film activity. But one government film agency, the National Film Board, was voted $2,804,131 by Parliament for the year ended March 31, 1953.
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