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Canadian Production Companies Past and Present, Including Subsidiaries of U.S. and other Foreign-based Companies

©2006-2007 Marsha Ann Tate Last updated: February 20, 2007 @ 9:46 a.m.

The following is a list of Canadian film and television production companies compiled from a variety of yearbooks, directories, and other sources published between the 1950s and February 2007. Updates to the list will be made periodically. Comments or suggestions? Please contact: Marsha Ann Tate, 222 Buckhout Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802, Phone: 814-865-7736, Email: [email protected] A AAC Fact (Toronto, Ontario)

Fact-based/documentary production arm of Alliance Atlantis Communications AAC Kids (Toronto, Ontario)

Children's programming-focused production arm of Alliance Atlantis Communications

ABC Films of Canada Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Able Editing & Service Ltd. (Edmonton, Alberta)

Production and distribution company. ABS Productions (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Academy TV Film Productions of Canada (Toronto, Ontario) Producers of industrial and commercial films. Accent Entertainment Corporation (Toronto, Ontario)

Company specializes in the production of feature films; movies-of-the-week and series.

Adam Productions Ltd. (Vancouver, British Columbia) Adaptel Productions (Montreal, Quebec)

Production and distribution company. Orly Adelson Productions (United States) A.C.P.A.V. (Montreal, Quebec)

Production and distribution company. ADS Film Productions (Toronto, Ontario)

Production and distribution company.

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Advertel Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Manager: O. Collier Agincourt Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Agravoice Productions Ltd. (Edmonton, Alberta) A.K.A. Cartoon (Vancouver, British Columbia) AKO Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) President: A. Kenneth Orton Secretary: Ian R. Linton Treasurer: Alan J. Beattie

Directors: Andrew Balazs, Ralph Hawkins, Nick C. More, George Trottier, Glen Nicholson

Alberta Access (Edmonton, Alberta)

Production and distribution company. Alberta Filmworks (Calgary, Alberta)

Company established in 1987. www.albertafilmworks.com

Alberta Government Photographic Services (Calgary, Alberta)

Agency involved in production and distribution activities. Algonquin Regional Library System (Parry Sound, Ontario)

Library system involved in production and distribution activities. Allarcom Ltd. Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. (Toronto, Ontario) See also entries under AAC Fact; AAC Kids; Alliance Entertainment Corporation; Alliance Communications Inc., and Atlantis Communications Inc. Alliance Communications Inc. (Toronto, Ontario) See also entries under Alliance Entertainment Corporation (earlier name of company) and Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. (later name of company); AAC Fact and AAC Kids. Althouse College of Education (London, Ontario)

College involved in production and distribution activities. Ampersand Productions (Ottawa, Ontario)

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Robert Anderson Associates (Aylmer East, Quebec) Company produced motion pictures and films for television. Andracom Enterprises (Toronto, Ontario)

Production and distribution company. André, Birrell, Harris et Associés Ltée (Montreal, Quebec) André, Durivage, Lamarre Productions (Pierrefonds, Quebec) Andromede Films (Quebec) Angel/Brown Productions (Canada) Anglican Church of Canada. Division of Broadcasting (Toronto, Ontario)

Organization involved in both production and distribution activities. Animal Miracles Production Inc. Animated Films (Toronto, Ontario) Animation Productions Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec or Moffat, Ontario?)

Production and distribution company. ANIMAX Canada Anytime Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Robert Appelbe Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Appletree Television Productions Inc. (Toronto, Ontario) Aquarius Films Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Aquila Film Productions (Hamilton, Ontario) Araneus Films Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec) Architectural Institute of BC (Vancouver, British Columbia) Aries Productions (Toronto, Ontario)

Production and distribution company. Armadale Productions (Regina, Saskatchewan) Armed Forces Photo Unit (Ottawa, Ontario)

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Arnott Rogers Batten Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec) Around Town Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontairo)

Production and distribution company. Ray Arsenault Services (Toronto, Ontario) Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Ontario)

Production and distribution company. Artek Film Productions Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec) President: Paul Legault Vice President: Andre Legault Artistic Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario)

Production and distribution company. Asia Films Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) ASP Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario)

Company involved in production and distribution. 1965/66 ed. note: Seaway Films Ltd. is a subsidiary company at the same address with the same officers.

President and Executive Producer: Maxine Samuels Vice President and General Manager: Michael Sadlier Vice President and Production Executive: E.F.G. Holiday

Associated Audio-Visual Ltd. (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Production and distribution company. Associated Film Services (Montreal, Quebec)

Production and distribution company. Association-Industrial Films (Toronto, Ontario)

Production and distribution company. Asterisk Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario)

Production and distribution company. Astral Bellevue Pathe

Astral Bellevue Pathe was created following the 1973 merger between Pathe Humphries laboratories and Astral Films. In 1992, Astral Bellevue Pathe became part of Astral Communications.

Astral Communications See also entries under Astral Bellevue Pathe and Astral Film Enterprises.

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Astral Film Enterprises (Montreal, Quebec) See also entries under Astral Bellevue Pathe and Astral Communications

Division of Astral Bellevue Pathé Inc. les Ateliers audio visuel du Quebec (Montreal, Quebec)

Production and distribution company. Atlantic Film-makers Co-Op (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Atlantic Films & Electronics Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec and St. John's Newfoundland)

Production and distribution company. Atlantis Communications (Toronto, Ontario) Also known as Atlantis Films Ltd.; Atlantis Entertainment. Atomic Productions (Vancouver, British Columbia) Also known as Atomic Cartoons Inc.

Company involved in "character and background design, layout and posing, storyboards, clean-up, slugging, sheet timing, colour styling, traditional animation, flash animation, custom webpage design." -- Tiffin, 2005, p. 149. www.atomiccartoons.com

Audiographic Presentations Ltd. (Montreal; Toronto; Vancouver)

1965/66 ed. note: Under an agreement with Polaris Films Ltd., Audiographic Presentations Ltd. has assumed responsibility for production of all film.

President: A. Brian Vice President: G.W. Bain Executive Producer and Secretary: Stan Spooner Audio-Visual Company (Montreal, Quebec)

Production and distribution company; Company also did French dubbing. Manager: M. Ruben Avanti Pictures Corporation (Vancouver, British Columbia) B Back Alley Film Productions Ltd.

Company maintains offices in Montreal, Quebec and Toronto, Ontario. www.backalleyfilms.ca

S. Banks (In-Television) Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Also known as S. Banks Group Inc. President: Sydney Banks Secretary: S. Bearg Treasurer: N. Griesdorf

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Barnyard Films (International) Ltd. (Edmonton, Alberta) Barna-Alper Productions Inc. (Toronto, Ontario)

Company involved in the production of TV series, movies-of-the-week, and documentaries.

Basic Sound Concepts (Montreal, Quebec) Battle 6 Productions (Toronto, Ontario and Don Mills, Ontario) Also known as Battle Six Productions.

Production and distribution company. Bay Films (West Vancouver, British Columbia) BC Film Industry Association. See British Columbia Film Industry Association. BEI Force Productions Inc. Berkeley Studio (Toronto, Ontario)

Studio owned by the United Church of Canada; involved in both production and distribution activities.

Derek A. Best Productions (Port Credit, Ontario)

Production and distribution company. David Bier Productions (Montreal, Quebec) Big Picture Media Corporation (Vancouver, British Columbia) Bill Boozeboom Productions Ltd. (Vancouver, British Columbia) Black Jack Productions Limited Partnership BLT Productions Ltd. (Vancouver British Columbia)

"Film and television production company that develops and produces both live-action and animated productions," Tiffin, p. 9). www.bltproductions.ca "Voice animation and services in the following areas: casting, dialogue recording, ADR, storyboard sound effects, dialogue confirmation, layouts, production management, music scoring, administration, editing and mag transfer, final audio mix and co-financing." -- Tiffin, 2005, p. 154.

Blue Relief Productions Blueprint Entertainment Also known as Blueprint Pictures; BluePrint Productions?

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Boa Productions (London, Ontario) Production and distribution company.

Joseph Bochsler Productions (Hamilton, Ontario) Bond/Moore Corporation (Toronto, Ontario)

Production and distribution company. Breakthrough Films and Television Inc. (Toronto, Ontario) Also known as Breakthrough Productions; Breakthrough Films

Toronto-based production and non-theatrical distribution company established in 1985. Specializes in documentary, drama, and lifestyle productions.

Brightlight Pictures (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Feature film and television company formed in 2001 by Shawn Williamson and Stephen Hegyes. Brightlightpictures.com

Briston Films Ltd. (Montreal) (1965/66 ed.) President: Leo C. Thompson Briston/Creative Films Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec) Briston Films Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec) President: Leo C. Thompson British Columbia Film Industry Association (West Vancouver, British Columbia) Also known as the BC Film Industry Association. Peter Bryant (Vancouver, British Columbia) C Café Productions Ltd. Campbell Productions (Peterborough, ON) Producer-Director: H. Kenneth Campbell Cambium Film and Video Productions Ltd. See CCI (Cambium Catalyst International) Entertainment Ltd. Can of Worms Productions Ltd. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) (Ottawa, Ontario)

The Company is involved in both production and distribution activities; maintains regional offices throughout Canada

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Canadian Cinegraph Ltd. (Vancouver, British Columbia) Canadian Educational Programs (Oak Ridges, Ontario)

Production and distribution company. Canadian Film Industries (Owned and operated by Festival Cinema Ltd.) President: Leslie A. Allen Vice President: James A. Cowan Secretary: Joseph Dawes

Company had several sound stages--40 X 100 feet, 50 x 120 feet and 75 x 100 feet. It also rented its studios and facilities.

Canadian National Exhibition (Toronto, Ontario)

Production and distribution company. Canadian National Railways (Montreal, Quebec)

Production and distribution company. Canamedia Film Production Inc. (Toronto, Ontario) Also known as Canamedia Productions Ltd.

Production company established in 1978. www.canamedia.com

Canart Films (Toronto, Ontario)

Company involved in both production and distribution. Canawest Film Productions Ltd. (Vancouver, British Columbia) Also known as Canwest Film Productions.

A division of KVOS-TV (BC) Ltd. The company also maintained a branch office in Toronto.

General Manager: Jack Gettles Executive Producer (1965/66 listing): Jack Lindsay Canawest-Master Films Ltd. (Calgary, Alberta)

Production and distribution company. Cando Film Productions Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec) Canfilm Screen Service Ltd. (Offices in Calgary, Alberta and Vancouver, British Columbia)


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Stephen J. Cannell Productions (Vancouver, British Columbia) Also known as Cannell Films of Canada; Cannell Films; Cannel Production Services.

In 1986, U.S. based Stephen J. Cannell Productions established a Canadian subsidiary for the production of the Stringray series. Cannell’s Canadian subsidiary went on to produce a number of U.S. runaway productions.

Capilano Motion Picture Centre Ltd. (North Vancouver, British Columbia)

Production and distribution company. President: Brig. E.G. Eakins Vice President and Managing Director: J. M. Mccallum Capri Films Inc. (Toronto, Ontario)

The company specializes in the production feature films,“high concept” television and miniseries. (Quigley, 2006, p. 962; Tiffin, 2005, p. 24).

Carey Productions Ltd. (Burlington, Ontario)

Production and distribution company. Carle-Lamy Ltee (Montreal, Quebec)

Production and distribution company. Carleton Productions International Inc. (Ottawa, Ontario)

www.carletonproductions.com Carey Productions Ltd. (Burlington, Ontario) Don Carmody Productions (Toronto, Ontario)

Company specializes in the production of "feature films; made-for-television movies" --(Tiffin, 2005, p. 26).

Carousel Productions Ltd. (Ottawa, Ontario) Cartoon Films (Toronto, Ontario) CBAFT Television (Moncton, New Brunswick) CBCT Television (Montreal, Quebec) CBFT Television (Montreal, Quebec) CBHT Television (Halifax, Nova Scotia) CBI of Canada Ltd. CBKRT Television (Regina, Saskatchewan)

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CBKST Television (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) CBLT Television (Toronto, Ontario) CBMT Television (Montreal, Quebec) CBNT Television (St. John's Newfoundland) CBOFT Television (Ottawa, Ontario) CBOT Television (Ottawa, Ontario) CBUT Television (Vancouver, British Columbia) CBVT Television (Ste-Foy, Quebec) CBWT Television (Winnipeg, Manitoba) CBXT Television (Edmonton, Alberta) CBYT Television (Corner Brook, Newfoundland) CCI (Cambium Catalyst International) Entertainment Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Also known as CCI Entertainment

www.ccientertainment.com Celebrity Studios (Toronto, Ontario) Cénatos Enr. (Quebec, Quebec) Central Film Services Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario)

Production and distribution company. Century Two Productions (Edmonton, Alberta) CFCF-TV CFTO-TV Challenge for Change (Montreal, Quebec) Chambers Productions (London, Ontario) Also known as Chambers Film Productions.


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Champlain Productions Inc. (Montreal, Quebec) Channel Television Productions Ltd. (Toronto) (1965/66 ed.)

Company’s board of directors included David Griesdorf, Ted Cott, and Spencer Caldwell.

President: David Griesdorf Executive Vice President: Ted Cott Secretary-Treasurer: Vin Dittmer

Christopher Chapman (Toronto, Ontario) Louise Chenier (Ottawa, Ontario) Cherry Film Productions Ltd. (Regina, Saskatchewan) President: Lawrence W. Cherry Vice President and Secretary: Evelyn Cherry Production Assistants: Gary Seib; Bill Cherry Lewis A. Chesler/Empath Films Chesler-Perlmutter Productions Inc. (Toronto, Ontario)

Company established in 1989; specializes in feature film and television production.

CHCH-TV (Hamilton, Ontario) Chetwynd Films Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario and Vancouver, British Columbia)

Production and distribution company. Children’s Television Workshop (CTW) Jack Chisholm Film Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) CHUMCity Productions (Toronto, Ontario) CHUM Television Cinak Ltée (Bedford, Quebec) Cinar Films Inc. (Montreal, Quebec) See also entries under Cookie Jar Entertainment Inc.

In February 2004, Montreal, Quebec-based Cinar was sold and subsequently renamed Cookie Jar Entertainment Inc.

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Cinderalla Film Productions (Toronto, Ontario) Production and distribution company.

Cine-Audio Ltd. (Edmonton, Alberta)

Production and distribution company. Cine McCallum Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Les Cinéastes associés Inc. Cinéclique (Quebec, Quebec) Cinecraft Productions (Toronto, Ontario) Producer-Director: Roy Krost Cinéfilms Inc. (Montreal, Quebec) CineGroupe Inc. (Montreal, Quebec)

Company specializes in feature film, animation, and television progam production. Note: 1989 Film Canada Yearbook includes a listing for Cinegroup Canada (Toronto, ON)--"documentaries & shorts" (p. 8).

Cinelume Productions Co. (Montreal, Quebec) Cinema Sixteen (Hamilton, Ontario) Cinémex International (Canada) Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Cinépix Inc. (Offices in Montreal, Quebec and Toronto, Ontario)

Production and distribution company. Cineplast (Toronto, Ontario) Cineplex Television Cinepro Productions Ltd. (Edmonton, Alberta) Cinequity Corporation (Toronto, Ontario)

Company founded in 1978 by John Pozhke. Cinera Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario)


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Cine-Superior Ltd. (Willowdale, Ontario) Pres. John F. Gunn VP Jean Gunn Sec. C. P. Newbound Cinétel Inc. (Montreal, Quebec) Cinetel Nine (Lethbridge, Alberta)

Production and distribution company. Cinévidéo (Montreal, Quebec) Cinevu Productions Inc. Circle Film Production (Winnipeg, Manitoba) Circle Films Also known as Circle Productions? (Vancouver and Toronto) Citadel Entertainment (Toronto, Ontario) Also known as Citadel Films; Citadel Canadian Films Inc. Note: 1989 Film Canada Yearbook lists LA office as "Robert Cooper Productions Inc." Company's Chairman was Robert Cooper. Citation Productions (Toronto, Ontario) Citédis (Montreal, Quebec) CiTY-TV (Toronto, Ontario) Clarion Productions (Toronto, Ontario) Dick Clark Productions (Burbank, California)

Company specializes in motion picture, television and video production. Clarion Productions (Toronto, Ontario) President: Irwin Burns Leo Clavir Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) President: Leo Clavir

Executive Producer: Douglas L. Jones Nat Clavier Productions (Ottawa, Ontario) Clayton Entertainment

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Clearwater Films Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Cliffwoods Production Ltd. (or Cliffwood??) Peter J. B. Cock (Ottawa, Ontario) Colurychrome Photography System (Kitchener, Ontario). See C.P.S. Film Productions. The Communications Centre (Toronto, Ontario) Complete Film Services Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Comweb Productions Confédération des Syndicats Nationzux (Montreal, Quebec)

Production and distribution company. Conseil national des recherches du Canada (Ottawa, Ontario)

Production and distribution company. Cookie Jar Entertainment Inc. (Montreal, Quebec) See also entries under Cinar. Company also has a branch office in Toronto, Ontario. www.thecookiejarcompany.com "An integrated entertainment and education company involved in the development, production, post-production and worldwide distribution of non-violent, quality programming and education products for children and families." -- Tiffin, 2005, p. 40. Robert Cooper Productions (Los Angeles, California)

Canadian owned company that merged with Alliance Communications Cooperatio Inc. (Vaudreuil, Quebec) Coopération Inc. (Vaudreuil, Quebec) G. Morgan Coote Films Ltd. (Etobicoke, Ontario) Also known as Great Lakes Film Productions. President: G. Morgan Coote Coote Hayes Productions Also known as Coote Communications Video/Plus (Etobicoke, Ontario?) C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures (Toronto, Ontario)

"Film and television production"--(Tiffin, 2005, p. 24). The firm also provides the following animation and post-production services: "compositing, CGI, 2D and 3D animation, visual effects supervision"-- Tiffin, 2005, p. 151.

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Corina Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Cornerstone Pictures Inc. Also known as Cornerstone Productions Inc. (Toronto, Ontario)??? Bernard Cowan Broadcasting Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario)

Co. was affiliated with Videocraft Productions, Video Craft Intl., Arthur Rankin Jr. Associates and Video Crafts Inc., all of New York.

President: Bernard L. Cowan S-T: Esterh Cowan VP: Donald C. Carr C.P.S. Film Productions (Kitchener, Ontario)

Production and distribution company. Craig Broadcasting Systems Inc. Thomas Craven Films (Canada) Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) President: Jas. Swackhammer Vice President: Thomas Craven Crawley International (Ottawa, Ontario) Also known as Crawley Films Ltd.

The company was involved in both production and distribution; maintained branch offices in Montreal and Toronto.

Creative Sight & Sound (Toronto, Ontario) Crescent Entertainment Ltd. (North Vancouver, British Columbia) Also known as Crescent Productions

The company is involved in development, independent production, and production services.

David Cronenberg (Toronto, Ontario) C/O Canadian Film Makers' Distribution Center (Film Canadiana, v. 1 (1969-1970)) Crystal Film Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Also known as Crystal Film. President: Kurt Weber CSP Films CTV Television Network Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec)

Company involved in both production and distribution activities. Cuppa Coffee Animation (Toronto, Ontario)

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Animation, commercial, motion picture and television production company. www.cuppacoffee.com

CUSO (Offices in Ottawa, Ontario; Montreal, Quebec; Toronto, Ontario; and Vancouver, British Columbia)

Company involved in both production and distribution activities.

D Dal Productions Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec) Dales & Houston (Toronto, Ontario) Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Dalton-Fenske Daly Harris Productions Danger Bay Productions Inc. (Burnaby, British Columbia) Dangerous Game Productions Ltd. Danrex Productions (Toronto, Ontario) Dark Productions Inc. Ken Davey Productions Ltd. (Winnipeg, Manitoba) De Tonnancour Productions Inc. (Montreal, Quebec) Decode Entertainment Inc. (Toronto, Ontario)

Production company established in 1997; specializes in family and children’s television programming.

Derma Communications (Montreal, Quebec) Dermet Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Design Service Associates (Toronto, Ontario) Destination Films Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario)

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Devine Entertainment Corp. (Toronto, Ontario) Also known as Devine Productions Ltd.

Company specializes in "family feature film and television programming."--Tiffin, 2005, p. 26. www.devinetime.com

Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (Ottawa, Ontario) DGG (Canada) Dilemma Productions Inc. Digital eMotion (Canada) Dik Enterprises Inc. Disada Productions of Canada (Montreal, Quebec)

Company involved in both production and distribution activities. Disada Productions of Canada (Montreal, Quebec) Divemaster Underwater Products (Toronto, Ontario) (Dead Like Me) DLM Productions (Canada) DLT Productions Ltd. (Oakville, Ontario)

"Production company specializing in documentary film and television, long-form." --(Tiffin, 2005, p. 26).

Documentary Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario)) Dover Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Drege-Audio Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Dueck Productions (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

Production and distribution company. Dufferin Gate Productions Inc. (Toronto, Ontario) Dunclaren Productions (Galetta, Ontario)

Company involved in both production and distribution. Office later moved to Arnprior, ON (Film Canadiana 1973-1974)

Duffoto Process Co. Ltd. (Calgary, Alberta)

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Dynacom (Montreal, Quebec) Also known as the Dynamic Communication Institute Dynamic Film Productions Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec) E Editcomm (Toronto, Ontario)

Production and distribution company. Editel Productions (Montreal, Quebec) E.F.K. Films (Hamilton, Ontario) Peter Elliott Services Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Emblem Films Ltd. (Vancouver, British Columbia) Pres. & Exec. Producer: T. Alan Houghton Secretary: A. D. Long Emergent Films (Toronto, Ontario) Engagement Productions Ltd. Enterprise Films Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) President: Harry Horner Vice Presidents: Robert Lewis; John Ross Secretary-Treasurer: Colin Brown Enterprises Barded Ltée Entrepid Productions Inc. ESA Films Ltd. (Monrtreal, Quebec) President: Jerry H. Solway Vice President: William Elman Secretary-Treasurer: Allan Avristh Evergreen Raccoons Television Productions Inc.

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F Factor-Altman-Mirell Film C. (Vancouver, British Columbia) Falconieri Studio (Toronto, Ontario)

Production and distribution company. Falling Productions Inc. Family Films (Winnipeg, Manitoba) Famous Players Television Inc. Fifeshire Motion Pictures (Toronto, Ontario)

Production and distribution company. Film Art Corporation (Toronto, Ontario) Film Associates Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec) Film Design Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Film Form (Toronto, Ontario) Film House Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) President: Robert C. Crone Vice President: Vi Crone Vice President Operations: Findlay Quinn Film-Masters (Toronto, Ontario) Film Optical of Canada Ltd. (Toronto, Ontairo) Film VII Productions '94 Ltd. Film XII Productions Film Technique Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario)

Optcial effects and animation company. Les Films Jean Martimbeau (Montreal, Quebec) Les Films Lavoie Inc. (Quebec) Also known as Films Lavoie Inc.; Lovoie Productions. President: Richard Lavoie Filmarc Productions Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec)

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Filmex Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec) Managing Director: Jean-Pierre Desmarais Filmline International (Montreal, Quebec) Also known as Filmline Productions Inc. Film-Masters (Toronto, Ontario) Filmoption (Montreal, Quebec)

Non-theatrical distributor specializing in documentaries, children's programming, music, variety, and drama--export, import and pre-sales.

FilmTryst Inc. Firebrand Productions Fireworks Entertainment Inc. (Toronto, Ontario) Fletcher Film Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Fogbound Films Forefront Production Also known as Forefront Entertainment Group?? Fortune Films Ltd. (Vancouver, British Columbia) President: Robert Fortune Four Minute Productions Inc. Michael Foytényi Productions (Toronto, Ontario) Fremantle of Canada Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario)

Production and distribution company. Front Street Productions Also known as Front Street Pictures Funbag Animation Studios (Ottawa, Ontario)

Company "Specializing in original and co-productions" -- Tiffin, 2005, p. 151. www.funbag.com

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G Galafilm Inc. (Montreal, Quebec) Also known as Galafilm Productions Inc. www.galafilm.com Galanty Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Galway Bay Productions (Canada) Gander Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Ganes Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Vice President and General Manager: S.A. Mackay Genesis Communications Corporation (North Vancouver, British Columbia) Also known as Genesis Entertainment

Company specializing in "educational, TV, entertainment programming" (Tiffin, p. 10).

The Gerber Co. (Canada) GFT Entertainment GG Productions Dan Gibson Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Gilbert Film Productions Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec) Glen-Warren Productions Ltd. (Scarborough, Ontario) Fred Gorman Films (Smith Falls, Ontario) Dr. J. P. Gofton (Vancouver, British Columbia) Graco Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Grattan Productions Inc. (Montreal, Quebec) Gravitin Productions GRB Entertainment Greene and Dewar New Wilderness Productions Inc. (Markham, Ontario) Also known as Greene and Dewar Productions

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Green Eagle Productions Greystone Studios Ltd. Fred Gorman Films (Smith Falls, Ontario) Grosvenor Park Productions Ltd. (Home office: London, UK; Branch office: Toronto) www.grosvenorpark.com "Specializing in the structuring, financing, and management of international co-productions (commercial feature, mini-series and series). Since 1986, co-produced and raised financing for over 500 film and television titles representing in excess of C$5 billion of production." Tiffin, Deobarh (Ed.). Film Canada Yearbook 2005. Port Perry, ON: Moving Pictures Media, 2005. Group Four Productions (Toronto, Ontario) President: Louis Applebaum Administrator: Leo Clavir Treasurer: Richard Rosenberg Group Productions of Canada Ltd. (1965/66 listing) (Toronto) President: William Pearce Guernand Film Co. (Montreal, Quebec) Also known as Guernand Film Co. Director and manager of the firm was Fernand Guertin. Al Guest Animation Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario)

Production and distribution company. President: Vladimir Goetzelman Vice Presidents: Terry Cake; John Griffiths Secretary: Tom Murray Guest Group (Toronto, Ontario) Guinard Films Inc. (Montreal, Quebec)

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H Haida Films (Toronto, Ontario) General Manager and Production Manager: Jean Townsend

Same principals also operate Sell-a-Vision Films, which produces animated TV commercials.

Hal Productions Halewyn Films Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario)

Production and distribution company. Halfback Uh? Productions Hamdon Entertainment Hampton Film Productions (Montreal, Quebec) David G. Harris Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Hartbreak Films Inc. Harvard Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) President: Emile A. Harvard Haverand Productions (Toronto, Ontario) Heartstar Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Helix Animation Inc. Helix Digital, Inc. (Sydney, Nova Scotia) "Digital production services, classical animation" -- Tiffin, 2005, p. 150. Henning Jacobson Film Production (Toronto, Ontario) Hermit Productions Paul Herriott Productions (Toronto, Ontario) High Road Productions Inc. (Toronto, Ontario)

Film production company. Higher Ground Productions (Toronto, Ontario)

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Hisrt Film Productions (North Vancouver, British Columbia) President and General Manager: Harold V. Hirst Production Manager: Walter Taylor Sales Manager & TV Supervisor: H.W. Mason Hollyburn Film Studios Ltd. (Vancouver) President and Managing Director: T. Alan Houghton Vice President and Studio Manager: Art Jones Holman Productions Limited Partnership Francis J.S. Holmes Ltd. (Winnipeg, Manitoba) John S. Holmes Studios Ltd. (Halifax, Nova Scotia) President: John S. Holmes Jean-Claude Huot Productions (Montreal, Quebec) Hydro-Quebec (Montreal, Quebec) I Impact Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Insight Production Company Ltd. (Vancouver, British Columbia and Toronto, Ontario??) Also known as Insight Film Studios.

Company specializaing in "Documentaries for TV, feature films, TV commercials and TV series." (Tiffin, p. 11).

Inter Cine Studios (Roxboro, Ontario or Quebec??) Director: Karl. H. Scheede Intercom Films Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Intermedia Film Cooperative (Vancover, British Columbia) International Cinema Corporation (ICC) (Montreal, Quebec) International Producers Services (Montreal, Quebec)

Production co-ordinators International Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario)

Company was a division of Foster Advertising Ltd. President: Harry E. Foster Vice President: D.W. Turnbull General Manager: S.A. Mackay

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Inter-Video Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Also known as Intervideo Productions Ltd. Pres. Richard Ballentine Ironstar Communications Isme Bennie International I.S.P. Film Productions of Canada (Vancouver, British Columbia) Also known as International Skyline Publications I.T.C. Productions Inc. J Michael Jacot Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Janek Productions JBS Media Enterprises Jigsaw Productions J.M. Film Productions (Montreal, Quebec) Joshmax Productions Services Ltd. Michael R. Joyce Productions JPL Productions (Montreal, Quebec) K The Kanter/Brownlee Co. Kaos Entertainment Larry Kardish (Ottawa, Ontario) KATJIM Productions Keg Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Keller Entertainment Group

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Arthur J. Kelly Productions (Brantford, Ontario) Production and distribution company.

Writer, Producer, Director: Arthur J. Kelly Writers: Elizabeth Kelly; William McCully Kensington Communications Inc. (Toronto, Ontario)

Production company specializing in television series and documentaries as well as multimedia production.

Key Film Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) President: Ralph Foster Vice President and General Manager: Edward E. rollins Kicking Horse Productions Inc. (Vancouver, BC?? or Edmonton, AB??)

Edmonton, Alberta-based production company. Kinetic Pictures Inc. (Toronto, Ontario) Company specialized in features; television drama Allan King Associates (Toronto, Ontario) Jeff King Productions King Features Productions King Street Entertainment (Toronto, Ontario)

Film and television production company. Klondike Productions Roy Krost Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) L J.C. Labrecque Inc. (Montreal, Quebec) Lakeshore Studios. See Canadian Film industries. Laurentian Productions Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec) Robert Lawrence Productions (Canada) Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario)

The Company's head office was located in Toronto. It also operated a branch office in Montreal.

President: J.T. Ross John Leekley Productions

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Leeway Productions (Toronto, Ontario) Mike Lente Films Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Lesser Studio Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Company offered a 60 foot x 80 foot sound studio and a 30 ft. x 45 ft. studio. President: Mort Lesser Creative Director: Bruce Walker Jack Lingeman Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) President: Jack Lingeman Lion's Gate Entertainment Corp. (North Vancouver, British Columbia) Also known as Lionsgate Television Lion’s Gate Films hq is in Santa Monica, CA. Jerry Lodge Associates (Toronto, Ontario) John Lowry Productions Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec or Toronto, Ontario??) P: John Lowry Note: 1966/67 first listing Love and Honor Productions Inc. Lumiere Productions M Mack Markow & Company Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec) Mainframe Entertainment (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Animation production and post-production company. www.mainframe.ca

David Maltby (Ottawa, Ontario) Manitou Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Film Canadiana v. 1 (1969-1970) listed home office as Whitefish Falls, Ontario. Mariner Films Ltd. (Vancouver, British Columbia) Bud Jones served as the Company’s president and director. Jack Markow & Co. Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec) President: Jack Markow Marshall-Lawrence Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario)

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Marshall-Taylor Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Master Films (Alberta) Ltd. (Calgary, Alberta) Managing Producer: Robert Willis MayDay Productions Inc. Dr. T. J. McCaughey (Winnipeg, Manitoba) Winnipeg Children's Hospital. Mediavision (Toronto, Ontario) Mercer Film Production Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Meridian Films Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) META. See Metropolitan Educational Television Association of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario) Metropolitan Educational Television Association of Toronto Millennium Canadian Productions Ltd. (Canada) Milne Pearson Productions (Toronto, Ontario) Minds Eye Entertainment (Regina, Saskatchewan) Also known as Minds Eye Pictures

Company is an integrated, full service motion picture enterprise. www.mindseyepictures.com

Ministar Film Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) President: Ernest Corley Vice President: Anthony Corley Secretary-Treasurer: Teresa Corley Note: Listing was missing in 1966/67 Yearbook Don Mischer Productions Missionary Audio-Visual Centre Inc. (Vancouver, British Columbia) President: Peter P. Allinger Production Manager: John Young

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MKB Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) President: Zale magder Secretary-Treasurer: Cy Beard Note: Listing was missing in 1966/67 Yearbook. Monarch Entertainment Corporation (MEC) (British Columbia) Also known as Monarch Productions VI Corporation

Monarch was a general partner in a wide array of limited partnerships formed to finance and produce feature films, made-for-television movies as well as television series.

Mondo-Vision Inc. (Montreal, Quebec) Montaigne Cine Productions Ltd. (Pembroke, Ontario) President: William J. Montaigne Monticana Audio/Visual Arts (Montreal, Quebec) Moreland-Latchford Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) President: Hugh Moreland Vice President: Frank Latchford Mot 16 Productions Inc. Mother Trucker Television Productions Ltd. Motion International Motion Picture Centre Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) President: Gerald S. Kedey Secretary-Treasurer: David A. Smith Directors: Norah M. Kedey; Mrs. T.A. Kedey Movie Film Service (Toronto, Ontario) MTR Productions Mutiscreen Corporation (Galt, Ontario) Multivision Films Inc. (Montreal, Quebec) MuchMusic Muscia Viva Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario)

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Muse Entertainment Enterprises Inc. (Montreal, Quebec) Company specializing in "Features, television movies, and series." -- Tiffin, 2005, p. 42.

N National Cine Productions Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec) National Film Board of Canada (NFB) (Montreal, Quebec) National Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Ontario) NDG Productions Nefertiti Productions NEI Motion Picture Company Inc. Nelvana Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Also known as Nelvana Enterprises; Nelvana Entertainment. Division of Corus Entertainment?

Nelvana, founded in 1971, ranked as the third-largest animation house in North America as of 1991.6

"A global children's and family entertaiment company that develops, produces, markets and distributes high-quality animation and consumer products with operations in Toronto, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Tokyo and Shannon, Ireland." --(Tiffin, 2005, p. 32). "This fully integrated media concern is composed of studio production and development, worldwide television sales and distribution, merchandise licensing, home entertainment, publishing, music and interactive divisions." --(Tiffin, 2005, p. 32).

New Studio of Film (Toronto, Ontario) Nielsen Ferns International Nimbus Productions (Manotick, Ontario) 9 Story Entertainment (Toronto, Ontario) "High-quality animation content producer." (Tiffin, 2005, p. 21) Nomad Films (Victoria, British Columbia) Owner is Crawford Enterprises. Norfolk Communications Ltd.

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Normandie Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Also known as Normandy Productions. Norstar Filmed Entertainment Inc. (Toronto, Ontario) Also known as Norstar Entertainment Inc.

Motion picture production company. Northdale Communications Nova Scotia Information Service. Film and Photographic United (Halifax, Nova Scotia) O The Ocean Group (Vancouver, British Columbia) Also known as Ocean Sound Corp. The Ocean Group is a Vancouver, BC-based production company that specializes in translating, subtitling, and dubbing anime. The Ocean Group also owns and operates Ocean Studios. "The Ocean Group of Companies specializes in various aspects of production in both a co-production capacity and as a group of service companies. The Ocean post group specializes in creating audio and video product." -- Tiffin, 2005, p. 154. Office du film du Quebec (Montreal, Quebec) Office National du Film du Canada (Montreal, Quebec) O'Hara Horowitz Productions Old Firehall Productions Oberon Productions O’Hara Horowitz Production Omega Productions Inc. (Montreal, Quebec) President: R. W. Harwood (1965/66 Pres: T. S. Morrisey) Vice President and General Manager: Pierre Harwood Vice President, Production: Henry Michaud Omen TV Production Onyx Fournier (Montreal, Quebec) Also known as Onyx Films Inc. Orleans Productions Ltd. See Les Productions Orleans Productions Ltee.

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Oscar Films Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) O.T.M.L. Films Ltd. Outer Productions Outrage Productions 7 Inc. Owl/TV Inc. (Toronto, Ontario) Also known as The Owl Centre for Children's Film and Television

"The Owl Centre aims to develop television programming and films that encourage children to take the initiative, to be creative, original thinkers who care about the world. The Owl Centre will produce, co-produce or act as a catalyst for the production of children's and family film and television." (1989 Film Canada Yearbook, p. 23).

O-Zali Films Inc. (Montreal, Quebec) P Palmar Production Enterprises Ltd. (Keswick, Ontario) President: Mary I. Walker Vice President: R. J. Walker Note: Entry not listed in 1966/67 Yearbook. Palomar Pictures Palette Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Panavista Productions (Toronto, Ontario) Pantechnicon Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Paradigm Pictures Corporation (Toronto, Ontario) Television production company specializing in dramas and documentaries. www.paradigmpictures.com Paragon Motion Pictures (Toronto, Ontario) Also known as Paragon Entertainment Corporation; Paragon Motion Pictures (1985) Inc. Park Productions Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec) Park Studio (Montreal, Quebec) Parkway Productions (Toronto, Ontario)

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Lew Parry Film Productions Ltd. (North Vancouver, British Columbia) President and Managing Producer: L. M. Parry Secretary-Treasurer: E.H. Parry Directors: L.M. Parry, E.H. Parry, R.J.G. Richards Pathe-Delux of Canada Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Vice President and General Manager: Roger Beaudry

1965/66 Yearbook: "Company has a sound stage 40 x 60 feet and rents its studio and facilities". Note: Entry is missing from 1966/67 yearbook.

Pathé-Humphries of Canada Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Peace Arch Entertainment Group Inc. (Toronto, Ontario) Also known as Peach Arch Motion Pictures Inc.

Company "Specializing in feature film projects. Handles all fulfillment aspects of the motion picture industry including: packaging, financing, production and distribution."--Tiffin, 2005, p. 33. www.peacearch.com

Pebblehut Productions Inc. (Toronto, Ontario) Pen Pals Productions Inc. Pet Fly Productions Peterson Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) President: S. Dean Peterson Director: David Main

Company offered complete studio facilities for 16 and 35 mm. motion picture production.

Phillips-Gutkin and Associates Ltd. (Winnipeg, Manitoba) President: John Phillips Vice President and Managing Director: Harry Gutkin Secretary-Treasurer: Mildred Gutkin Note: Entry missing from 1966/67 Yearbook. Pied Piper Films Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) President: Allan Wargon Playing with Time Inc. (Toronto, Ontario)

Toronto-based production company founded by Kit Hood and Linda Schuyler. The company is best known for the well-respected Kids of Degrassi Street series and its progeny.

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Polaris Films Ltd. (London, Ontario) President: Gordon W. Bain Vice President: J. P. fowler Note: entry not listed in 1966/67 yearbook. Portfolio Entertainment Inc. (Toronto, Ontario)

Company "Specializing in television programming: high-quality children's, animation, prime-time TV movies, lifestyle, travel, sports, documentary and specials."--Deborah Tiffin (Ed.), 2005, p. 33.

Post City Productions Potterton Productions Inc. (Montreal, Quebec) Power Pictures Corporation (Toronto, Ontario) Premiere Bobine Pro-Ad Studios Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Les Productions Bleu Blanc Rouge (Montreal, Quebec) Also known as BBR Productions.

www.bbrproductions.com Productions 8 - 16 Inc. (Montreal, Quebec) Les Productions La Fe^te Inc. (Montreal, Quebec)

“Develops, produces and distributes feature-length drama, documentaries, and animated and fiction television series in English, French, and many other languages.” (Quigley 2006, p. 977). www.lafete.com "a private company that develops, produces and distributes feature-length drama, documentaries and animated and fiction television series in the English language as well as in French and many other lanuages….La Fete is internationally renowned for the quality of its non-violent children's feature films."--Tiffin, 2005, p. 43.

Les Productions Orleans Productions Ltee. (Montreal, Quebec) President: Marcel A. Gagnon Productions Paris Montreal Ltee (Montreal, Quebec) Productions Sextant (Canada) Les Productions Telescene

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Pronational Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Protocol Entertainment Inc. (Comweb Group Inc.) (Toronto, Ontario)

Company develops, finances, and produces television programming and feature films.

Prufrock Pictures PS Films Q Quebec Productions Corp. (Montreal, Quebec) President: Rene Germain Vice President: William J. Hazel Quest Film Productions Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec) R Rabko Television Productions Company Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) President: R.A. Batten Vice President: D.R. Keedwell Radical Sheep Productions (Toronto, Ontario)

Film and television production company that specializes in programming involving puppets.

Rain Fall Productions Bruce M. Rapp Associates (Toronto, Ontario) Bruce A. Raymond Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Also known as Bruce Raymond Ltd. Raymond International (Toronto, Ontario) "TV production and distribution since 1969."--Deborah Tiffin (Ed.), 2005, p. 34. Al Razutis (Vancouver, British Columbia) Reason Associates Films Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Regency Entertainment Religious Television Associates (Toronto, Ontario)

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Re:Source Media Inc. Reuland Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) President: J.C. Mulholland RH Productions RHI Entertainment Rhombus Media Inc. (Toronto, Ontario) www.thombusmedia.com Rieneck Films Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec) President: Christoff Nostisz-Rieneck Note: Entry not included in 1966/67 yearbook. David Rimmer (Vancouver, British Columbia) Ripitup Productions (Canada) Hal Roach Studios Inc. Rockingham Productions Ltd. Rodesfilm Inc. (Montreal, Quebec) President: Robert B. Desroseirs Note: Entry not included in 1966/67 Yearbook. Allen Rogers Production Services Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Rose-Magwood Productions (Canada) Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) (1966/67 Yearbook first time listed) Vice President: Zale Magder Roth-Stratton Productions RSL Films (Toronto, Ontario) Also known as RSL Entertainment.

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S S & S Productions Inc. (Toronto, Ontario)

Company specializes in the production of television comedy and magazine series. Bruce Sabsay Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Allan Sacks Productions Salter Street Films Ltd. (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Salvation Army (Living World Productions) (Toronto, Ontario) Organization also had a 20 x 50 foot sound stage. Sanitsky Canada Inc. / The Sanitsky Co. Sandman Productions Bill Sandy Co. of Canada Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Sarrazin Couture Productions The Sash Films Inc. Science Highway Productions Inc. (Canada) Bob Schultz Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Scott Films Ltd. (Ottawa, Ontario) Screen Gems (Canada) Ltd.

The company maintained offices in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver. Screen Gems Productions (Montreal, Quebec) Screenbank Productions (Toronto, Ontario) (1966/67 Yearbook first time listed) President: Sydney Banks Vice President: Jerry H. Solway Screenventures XLVIII Productions Ltd. Sea Otter Productions Maxwell A. Sendel Film Productions Ltd. (Jacques Cartier, Quebec) Sebert Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario)

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Maxwell A. Sendel Film Productions Ltd. (Montreal) 1966/67 listing first time in Yearbook. Serendipity Point Films (Toronto, Ontario)

"Boutique motion picture production company formed in 1998 by Robert Lantos," co-founder as well as former Chairman and CEO of Alliance Communications Corp.--Tiffin, 2005, p. 35.

Settler Film Productions Inc. (Toronto, Ontario) Also known as Settler Films Seven Arts Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) President: Eliot Hyman Vice President and Treasurer: Samuel H. Haimes Vice President and Secretary: David Lubart

Directors: Herbert Allen, NY; Alfred Bloomingdale, LA; Armand Deutsch, La; Samuel H. Haims, Stamford, CT; Alan J. Hirschfield, NY; Eliot Hyman, Westport, CT; Jerome A. Newman, NY; Maxwell M. Rabb, NY; Alvin B. Rosenberg, Toronto; Deniston L. Slater, NY

Shades of Love Productions Inc. ShadowBox Entertainment Shadow Zone Productions Inc. Shaftesbury Films (Toronto, Ontario)

Film and television production company. www.shaftesbury.org

Shavick Entertainment Inc. (Vancouver, British Columbia) Also known as James Shavick Film Partners.

Motion picture and television production company. www.shavickentertainment.com

Shooting Star Entertainment Inc. (North Vancouver, British Columbia)

"TV, features; film and digital education and training consultant, teacher and curriculum designer." (Tiffin, 2005, p. 13)

Shtick Productions Ltd. Sight & Sound Productions Reg'd. (Montreal, Quebec)

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Douglas Sinclair Film Productions (St-Jovite Station, Quebec) Production and distribution company.

President: Douglas Sinclair 1966/67 Yearbook first time appared in list. W.J. Singleton & Co. Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec)

Film counselors President: W. J. Singleton

Sinkhole Productions Inc. SkyVision Entertainment (Canada) Smash Films Inc. Derek Smith Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Snowbird Productions No. 1 Ltd. Partnership Snowboard Productions So Weird Productions Société Radio-Canada (SRC) (Montreal, Quebec) Somerset Productions (Toronto, Ontario) Sonolab Inc. (Montreal, Quebec) Sound Venture Productions (Ottawa, Ontario)

Company specializes in audio and video post-production. Soundview Productions (Victoria, British Columbia) Spaulding Taylor Hall Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) President: T.H. Spaulding Vice President: H. Taylor S.P.E.A.C. Ltd. (Dollard des Ormeaux, Quebec) Spectrum Film Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) President: Claire Guest Spex (Montreal, Quebec) Spin Productions (Toronto, Ontario)

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Stellart Productions Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec) Al Stewart Enterprises Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Bob Stewart Productions Stopher Productions Storyline Entertainment (Toronto, Ontario) www.storylinentertainment.ca Bill Street Associates (Mississauga, Ontario) Studio B Studio City. See International Film Studios Ltd. Entry missing from 1966/67 yearbook. Studio 33 (Canada) Sugar Entertainmennt Ltd. Sugartime Productions Ltd. Sullivan Entertainment Inc. (Toronto, Ontario) Also known as Sullivan Films Distribution; Sullivan Films

Sullivan Entertainment is a Toronto-based production and distribution house headed by director-producer Kevin Sullivan and Trudy Grant, who is in charge of the firm’s distribution arm.11

Summit Film Productions Ltd. (Don Mills, Ontario) President: Douglas M. Robinson Vice President: Marilyn C. Robinson Sunrise Films Ltd. (Oakville, Ontario)

Company principles included Paul Saltzman, Dilip Mehta, and Deepa Mehta Saltzman.

Synchro-Quebec ltee (Montreal, Quebec)

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T Take 3 Productions Inc. (Toronto, Ontario)

Founded in 1995, “Take 3 Productions specializes in producing television documentaries, lifestyle series information and current affairs programs… for broadcasters, including A&E, BBC, CBC, CTV, TVO, W Network, History Network, Life Network and a wide variety of international broadcasters.” (Telefilm Canada. “Coproduction Directory” 2006. http://www.telefilm.gc.ca)

Tandem Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Manager: Gerry Stoll 1966/67 Yearbook first time listed Taylor Television Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) T D F Motion Pictures (Toronto, Ontario) Teacher-Made Films Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) General Manager: David Marcus-Roland 1966/67 Yearbook first time listed. Team Productions Inc.

Note: 1989 Film Canada Yearbook includes a listing for Team Productions Inc. (Toronto, ON0 -- "Film and television -- Marco Bianco, Stephen Clerk, Ted Hanlan, T.J. Scott" (p. 31).

Telefex Film Productions (North Vancouver, British Columbia) General Manager: Frank E. Fleming 1966/67 first time listed in yearbook Tele-Metropole International Telescene Film Group Productions (Montreal, Quebec) Also known as Telescene Productions Inc. Teletoon Tele-Video Productions (Canada) LTd. (Toronto, Ontario) Television & Motion Picture Productions (North Vancouver, British Columbia) President and General Manager: Harold V. Hirst Television Editorial Services Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Television Film Productions Ltd. (King City, Ontario and Toronto, Ontario) Television Renaissance Inc.

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Temple Street Productions (Toronto, Ontario) www.templestreetproductions.com

Termite Art Productions Terra Nova Film Productions Ltd. (Gatineau, Quebec) TFL Motion Pictures (Toronto, Ontario) Thatcher Film Productions (Toronto, Ontairo) 3DJ Productions Three Pictures Productions Also known as Three Pictures Corp. Tiger Productions Ltd. (Calgary, Alberta) President: Lorne H. Reed Vice President: Vernor C. Simmonds Directors: Larry Matanski; Reed; Simmonds; Knapik (Sec-Treas), D.B. Bullock T.K.L.C. No. 2 Tolea Film Productions Inc. (Montreal, Quebec) President and Film Director: Tolly Reviv Secretary-Treasurer: L. Reviv Vice President: H. Cresthol Toronto International Film Studios Ltd. Not listed in 1966/67 yearbook. Toy Factory Productions Inc.

Toy Factory Productions Inc. was an Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. company.

Trailer Park Productions Trans-Canada Films Ltd. (Vancouver, British Columbia) President and General Manager: E. W. Hamilton Transformer Production Company Inc. Trans-Video Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) TRCF Productions

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Trident Underwater Film Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Triptych Media Inc. (Toronto, Ontario)

www.triptych.on.ca Tudor Productions (Toronto, Ontario) TVM TVOntario (TVO)

Canada's second-largest public broadcaster. Twins Productions Two Sisters Productions U U.B. Productions Inc. Ultimus Films Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Union Industries (Montreal, Quebec) Unit 6 Productions (Toronto, Ontario) United Church of Christ (Toronto, Ontario) University of Saskatchewan Hospital. Department of Diagnostic Radiology (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) Upstart Productions Also known as Upstart Pictures. V Val Productions Ltd. (Niagara Falls, Ontario) Vanguard International Pictures Ltd. (Vancouver, British Columbia) Not listed in 1966/67 yearbook. President: T. Alan Houghton Vice President and Executive Director: Art Jones Victor Television Productions Inc. (Canada) Video Crafts

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Animation company founded by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass Videotel Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Vidicam Television Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) V.I.P. Productions (Toronto, Ontario) Vision IV (Toronto, Ontario) Note: 1989 Film Canada Yearbook includes a listing for Les Films Vision 4 Inc. (Montreal, Quebec) Visual Education Centre (Toronto, Ontario) Vocational Education Productions V T R Productions (Toronto, Ontario) VZS: Toronto Pictures Inc. W Allan Wargon Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario)

Production and distribution company. President: A. Wargon WAS Productions Inc. (Canada) Anton Van De Water Film Production (Montreal, Quebec) Also known as Van de Water Films Ltd.

Company involved in both production and distribution. The company also had a 30 x 20 x 14 foot sound stage. President: Anton Van de Water Manager: Ernie Kilm West Coast Motion Pictures (Toronto, Ontario) Owner: R. L. Crawford Western Films Ltd. (Winnipeg, Manitoba) Manager: Werner R. Franz 1966/67 first time listed in yearbook. Western International Communications Ltd. (WIC) (Canada)

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Westminster Films Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec and Toronto, Ontario) President: Don Haldane Producer-Director: Lee Gordon Director-Editor: Philip Hudsmith Whizbang Films (Toronto, Ontario)

Company established in 1999. WIC. See Western Interational Communications Ltd. Don Wilder & Co. Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Williams, Dredge & Hill Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) President: Hal B. Williams Executive Vice President: Heinz A. K. Drege Producer-Directors: C. Y. Smith, W. C. Bopp Windsor Film Productions (Toronto, Ontario) Winnipeg Children's Hospital (Winnipeg, Manitoba) Women's Television Network X-Z York Television Centre (Toronto, Ontario) Yorktown Productions Ltd. (Toronto, Ontario) Note: There is also a Yorktown Productions Inc. (Santa Monica, CA) -- Motion picture prodduction YTV Zodiak International Production Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec)

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Notes

1. The following sources were consulted for the compilation: Tim Brooks, and Earle Marsh. The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present, 8th ed. (New York: Ballantine Books, 2003), 364; "Production Guide," Cinema Canada, various issues published between 1982 and 1987; Telefilm Canada Annual Reports, 1983-1984 through 1989-1990; Stewart M. Clamen, "Canadian TV Exports List," Version 1.7, 1995, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Unofficial/Canadiana/tv/exports/Exports.html (accessed May 13, 2000); The Internet Movie Database (IMDb), http://www.imdb.com; "In the Can," Cinema Canada, May 1985, 66; "In the Can," Cinema Canada, November 1986, 74; "1984 Canadian Film and Video," Cinema Canada, March 1985, 34; "1986 Production Guide: Canadian Television Series," Cinema Canada, June 1987, 40; "Fall Production Slated," Film & TV World, July-August 1982, 1; 2. Bruce Malloch, "Independent TV Producers: Looking Good, Moving Ahead," Cinema Canada no. 82 (March 1982): 21. 3. "Fall Production Slated," Film & TV World, July-August 1982, 1. 4. "ICC Inks $26 Mil. Deal with HBO, Antenne 2," Film & TV World, September - October 1982, 1. 5. "In the Can," Cinema Canada, May 1985, 66. 6. John Daly, "A Global Vision: Canada's TV Producers Are Teaming up With Firms in the United States and Europe," Maclean's, October 14, 1991, 38-39. 7. Tim Brooks, and Earle Marsh. The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present, 8th ed. (New York: Ballantine Books, 2003), 831. 8. "Gadget to Air, Rich in Animation," Cinema Canada, January 1984, 43. 9. Bruce Malloch, "Independent TV Producers: Looking Good, Moving Ahead," Cinema Canada no. 82 (March 1982): 20. 10. "Children's Programming and CBC Show Renewed Market Vigor," Cinema Canada, December 1985, 43. 11. "Profile: Sullivan Films Distribution : Set for Take-Off," Canadian Profile [Supplement to Cinema Canada], January 1986, 12. 12. Stewart M. Clamen, "Canadian TV Exports List," Version 1.7, 1995, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Unofficial/Canadiana/tv/exports/Exports.html (accessed May 13, 2000).

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