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co-production
Also coproduction.
[co- 3: see production 3 c.]
A joint production; the process or result of financing the production of (or, more rarely, of producing) something, esp. a film or television programme, jointly by two or more organizations, often from different countries; a film, etc., so produced.
1959Times 22 May 16/1 Many of his more recent films..have been Anglo-Dutch co-productions for the Shell Film Unit. The co-production, in fact, is the obvious way for films to be made in a country like Holland, with a relatively small audience. 1960Times 12 Nov. 10/4 Recent British films made as coproductions with French, German and Italian companies. 1971Daily Tel. 20 Jan. 10/6 Ports in Peril (BBC 1) was a co-production between the BBC and a Dutch television station. 1976Survey Summer–Autumn 224 The co-production efforts with which we are familiar will continue to have only a limited impact on the over-all allied military budgets. 1983Listener 3 Feb. 33/2 Prestige adaptations like Granada's Brideshead Revisited now attract huge amounts of ‘co-production’ finance. |