page_title: Culture of Saskatchewan
section_title: Film, and television
hierarchical_section_title: Culture of Saskatchewan / Film, and television
context_page_description: Culture of Saskatchewan views the patterns of human activity in the central prairie province of Canada examining the way people live in the geography, climate, and social context of Saskatchewan.
  First Nations and fur traders adopted a transhumance and hunting and gathering lifestyle to fulfill their economic and sustenance needs. Early homesteaders and settlers in the 19th and early 20th centuries likewise spent the majority of their time proving up their homesteads, tilling the land and providing subsistence agricultural products for their families. The early 20th century developed successful agricultural practices, and society rejoiced in the Roaring Twenties. The depression and drought years of the dirty thirties took agricultural sustenance away. Electricity became established throughout the various Saskatchewan regions. The economy saw a growth not only in the agricultural sector, but labour was freed up to also pursue choices other than agriculture. A major breakthrough was seen in the arts and culture scene in Saskatchewan from the 1940s onward. Arts and cultural activities before this date were of the main on a family, individual and unpaid level.
context_section_description: By the mid-1950s, there were just over 150 radio broadcast stations operating nationwide across Canada, Canada first received television broadcasts in 1952 at Montreal and Toronto.  There are currently nine separate television stations in Saskatchewan.
  Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry.  $7.80 admission fees, and 16 motion pictures (mainly made in the United States) were viewed by the average Canadian in 1954.
  Saskatchewan residents thereafter developed their own films and the Saskatchewan Film Development Corporation (a production unit of the National Film Board Canada), Saskatchewan Production Studios, as well as the Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival.  The Canada Saskatchewan Production Studios located in Regina that has been used for the production of both movies and television programs and are still used today in society.
  Film and television productions done at the Canada Saskatchewan Production Studios include:
  Falling Angels (2003)
  Corner Gas (2004–2009)
  Beyond Corner Gas: Tales from Dog River (2005)
  Tideland (2005)
  Sabbatical (2007)
  The Messengers (2007)
  How I Married My High School Crush (2007)
  It's Been a Gas (2009)
  Dolan's Cadillac (2009)
  Walled In (2009)
  InSecurity (2010)
caption: Capitol Theatre, Regina
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