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The British Columbia Film Commission is twenty years old this year. Long before it was created, British Columbia, with its majestic scenery, was a magnet for American film producers such as Louis B. Mayer, who shot scenes for his 1936 musical, Rose Marie, in Vancouver.

In the late 1960’s Robert Altman brought his movies, A Cold Day in the Park and McCabe & Mrs.

Miller to Vancouver; Mike Nichols came to shoot scenes for his 1971 film, Carnal Knowledge. In those days, producers brought up much of their own crew, but by the 1960’s, several locals had been trained in the ways of film, and began to miss the work when it seemed to be disappearing by the mid-1970’s.

By 1975, the province had gone five years without a Hollywood picture being shot here.

There had been a few days of shooting locally, ten days here, twenty days there, and a few commercials, but not an entire film. The small group of trained film workers were either out of work or travelling out-of-prov