The Film Industry in Canada: A Report (1977)

155 corporations that operate in the metropolitan areas included in this study. These concentrations factlttate the continuous relationships that must extst between producers and the service sector on the one hand, and between producers and customers on the other, while reducing the costs of transporting people and materials. Producers located further afield are thus at a disadvantage in many respects. The pattern in Canada is very similar to that in most other film-producing countries. In any consideration of means to redistribute the industry in the several regions of the country, particular attention would have to be paid to the availability of the necessary services and facilities on which the majority of film producers rely. Another factor in the geographical distribution of the film industry in Canada is the location of the principal markets for English-language and French-language products. The latter is relatively isolated in Quebec with its own television networks and stations, and theatrical, industrial, commercial, and educational markets. Apart from some degree of overlap which has not been identified, film-production in Quebec in 1974 was estimated at perhaps as much as $20 milion, including $6 million for feature films and $12 million sponsored by the Office du Film du Québec, an agency of the provincial Government. Thus Quebec, with about 28% of the population of Canada, is responsible for some 40% of Canadian film production, a volume shared by 70 active firms. The number of firms in relation to the volume of production is therefore slightly higher in Quebec than in the rest of Canada. (6) Source: Office du Film du Québec, Données statistiques sur 1]'industrie québecoise du cinéma, 1975.