Canadian Film Digest Year Book (1976)

IN PRODUCTION—(con‘t) Alan Migikovsky Susan Hogan Cinematographer Robert Brooks Can. & Foreign Distrib. See Producer LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT Quadrant Films David Perlmutter 964-6660 Producer Peter O’Brien Director Rex Bromfield Princ. Cast Dan Aykroyd Mary Ann McDonald Jane Mallett George Murray Mignon Elkins Cinematographer Henry Fiks Can. & Foreign Distrib. See Producer TEN MILLION FEET OF FILM ie Jes gl BE Ms What is stockfootage? During the past year, a major film producer answered that question when he put together bits and pieces of discarded film to come up with one of the most successfull hits of 1975, ‘““THAT’S ENTER— TAINMENT.” The basic material was gathered from several sources where the negatives had been hoarded for many years, and suddenly came to light, were edited, spliced together and came out as a great family motion picture which won critical acclaim whereever it was shown. It played several weeks at a stretch in some of the important theatres in the country. With the way Television ‘Gobbles up’ film, producers do not have the time to travel long distances north or south just to shoot a few local interest scenes. They invariably find the wanted footage in a stockshot library. Millions of feet of film of Canadian scenes dating back to 1900 have simply disappeared, but fortunately, considerable footage was preserved to show us today how Canadians worked and lived in the almost dim past. Some of this film now rests safely sealed in film cans to be brought out again and again to print a scene for use in historical films of Canada. For years, a veteran Canadian motion picture producer, Jack Chisholm, along with his Girl Friday, Mary DiTursi, started to build their own stockshot library...today the largest in Canada, supplying T.V. and motion picture producers not only with scarce stock shots of recovered and refurbished Canadian content, but of countries around the world, and is a source of daily film news footage from Global Television. Canada’s recently established T.V. network. Over ten million feet of stock shots are indexed on hundreds of thousands of cards, and a much-wanted scene can be located in minutes and viewed immediately in the Chisholm library by the potential customer. 95% of all inquiries to the library get an immediate reply to their request. If it’s stockfootage...we have it. WORLD PREMIERE OF ‘SECOND WIND’ — ADVANCED THREE MONTHS The first major motion picture to be shot in Canada this year has completed all its principle photography, and is now in its post-production stages. Work has proceeded so well that Executive Producer Les Weinstein has advanced the world premiere date from Spring 1976 to February 1976. Award winning Don Shebib has directed this story, with a very capable cast consisting of James Naughton and Lindsay Wagner. Screenplay by Hal Ackerman: Producer James Margellos, and Executive Producer Les Weinstein. Canadian actor TOM HARVEY (Frank) plays a featured role as a hard-drinking senior stock broker in the motion picture SECOND WIND, directed by Don Shebib. Now in post production phase. CANADA’S LARGEST STOCKFOOTAGE LIBRARY Millions of scenes from millions of feet fully indexed and Canadian and World Events from 1896 to the present Contact JACK CHILSHOLM FILMS 4 New Street Toronto M5R 1P6 Tel: (416) 925-2281 165