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| | Ernest Shipman, Producer |
 | | Ernest Shipman was an entrepreneur, impresario and film producer in the early years of Canadian independent cinema. |
 | | He compared the Canadian film industry to a "young giant" which had "no past to live down, no mistakes to apologize for." His most notable production was the 1919 silent film classic, Back To God's Country, from a short story by the popular American writer, John Oliver Curwood, starring his second wife, Nell Shipman. |
 | | By 1916, Ernest was representing several independent producers, had leased a film laboratory and studio which advertised "Pictures financed, bought, sold and exploited." He was handling fifty-two pictures a year and acting in an advisory capacity in connection with the actual manufacture of some of the pictures. |
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