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This image shows C. M. Drury signing the guest book at city hall. Drury. He is with the president of the Provincial Transport Company. The company’s services were used to bring the main actors of the show La Famille Plouffe from Montréal to Québec City. This popular TV series was one of the first of its kind in Quebec.
1952 - 1980

Québec City, filming grounds for the big and small screens

Québec City has been the setting for some of the world’s greatest films. In 1952, the famous Alfred Hitchcock shot all the outdoor scenes of his film I Confess in Québec City, notably in Limoilou. Then, between 1953 and 1959, author Roger Lemelin portrayed a family from the Saint-Sauveur district in one of Quebec’s first TV series, La Famille Plouffe, on which two movies by Quebec artist Gilles Carle were based. A movie inspired by a Woody Allen play called Don’t Drink the Water also used Old Québec as a backdrop in 1969. Do these films bring back any memories?

From the small screen to city hall!

Auteur inconnu This image shows C. M. Drury signing the guest book at city hall. Drury. He is with the president of the Provincial Transport Company. The company’s services were used to bring the main actors of the show La Famille Plouffe from Montréal to Québec City. This popular TV series was one of the first of its kind in Quebec.
Chronoscope Can you identify these actors from La Famille Plouffe? (unilingual French for a limited time) Source: Ville de Québec Document in the public domain (free of copyright) - Date: 1955-12-03