Last Updated: 2012-11-09

W.B. Robertson Incorporated

Company information

Legal Name:   W.B. Robertson Incorporated
Operating Name:   W.B. Robertson Incorporated
Alternate Name:   Defence Point Pictures
Mailing Address 2-9 Deal Ave TORONTO, Ontario M4N 2S8	Location Address 2-9 Deal Ave TORONTO, Ontario M4N 2S8
Telephone: (647) 996-3430
Email: wm@wbrobertson.com
Website URL: http://www.defencepoint.com

Contact information

William Robertson
	Title:   President
	Telephone:   (647) 996-3430
	Email:   Robertson@wbrobertson.com

Company description

W. B. Robertson Inc. (WBRInc) produces video content for media and private industry. Genres of production include: documentaries, educational / training videos, corporate video magazines, and various types of promotional shorts including music-style videos. The owner (Bill Robertson) brings over 30 years of experience in the film and video industry as an independent and corporate video producer. Governments and companies engaged in television media, natural resources, structural engineering, precast construction, and refinery infrastructure building and oil refining have repeatedly utilized his services. His expertise includes producing, creative conceptualization, storyboard and scriptwriting, directing, off-line editing, and directing digital creation and online colorization & master edit finishing sessions. Bill has extensive foreign location experience that includes directing in the U.S., U.K., Middle East and Caribbean. Programs have been produced English, Arabic and French. Prior to establishing W. B. Robertson Inc. Bill was the president TMT Productions Ltd., an award-winning production company he had founded and operated for a dozen years in the Maritimes. Primary clients included Canada’s largest oil refining entity and Canada National Defence. – Services WBRInc provides to the defense industry are provided under the operating alias of Defence Point Pictures. Bill Robertson is a member of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. DEFENCE POINT PICTURES (DPP) produces in military manufacturing, trial and exercise environments. Sequences directed by William Robertson include Type 45 ant-air warfare destroyer sea trials, gun trials, commando landing exercises and planned fighter aircraft evolutions. They also includes award-winning scripted & non-scripted sequences of joint sea & air maneuvers and various onboard ship exercises. Visit the homepage of the Defence Point Pictures website www.defencepoint.com AWARDS: MCA-I MEDIA FESTIVAL 2008 SILVER REEL (Communications) "DARING SEA TRIALS" promotes sea trial successes of destroyer HMS Daring CHICAGO / INTERCOM 2006 SILVER PLAQUE (Mrktng) “OPERATION: SHIP ACCEPTANCE TRIALS” promotes naval capabilities of KDB Nakhoda Ragam Class OPV’s CHICAGO / INTERCOM 2006 Certificate of Merit (Mrktng) “BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER” promotes shipbuilding capabilities of BAE Systems CHICAGO / INTERCOM 2006 Certificate of Merit (Inspirational) “DAY OF THE LAUNCH“ documents the Countess of Wessex launching HMS Daring ITVA CANADA 1995 BRONZE OAK AWARD (Mrktng) “CITY CLASS FRIGATES” promotes Canada’s patrol frigates and the Canadian Navy . COLUMBUS 1993 BRONZE PLAQUE AWARD (Mrktng) “THE NEW DEFENDERS” promotes capabilities of Canada’s City Class Frigates and Saint John Shipbuilding Limited CHICAGO / INTERCOM 1992 SILVER HUGO (PR) “IN THE WORLD CLASS” promotes capabilities of HMCS Halifax and the Canadian Navy & defense industry
Country of Ownership:	Canada
Year Established:	2004
Exporting:	Yes
Primary Industry (NAICS):	512110 - Motion Picture and Video Production
Primary Business Activity:	Services
Number of Employees:	1

Product / Service / Licensing

Service Name:	video production
Independent and corporate production: documentaries, educational / training videos, corporate video magazines, and various types of promotional shorts including music-style videos.
Service Name:	Video Production Development and Consultation
Producing, creative conceptualization, storyboard and scriptwriting, directing, off-line editing, and directing digital creation and online colorization & master edit finishing sessions.

Market profile

Geographic markets:

Export experience:

• United Kingdom

Sector information

Distribution of employees

Crews sub-contracted on project to project as-required basis. Common requirements: D.O.P., assistant producers and directors, D.O.P.s and camera/lighting personel, production assistants, colorizors, online editors, translators and production managers.

Testimonial:

TESTIMONIALS - Excerpts from received letters of commendation:

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"...thank you for the impressive flexibility you have demonstrated in preparing material on short notice. The music video you produced for our participation in the Norfolk Defence Exposition has been a complete success and is now in use throughout the Canadian defense industry."
"...it has been a pleasure working with such a professional and client-orientated company such as your firm."

- Commodore Dennis Reilley, Canada National Defence

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"We found your comprehension of the program to be both astute and accurate in relation to what we are doing in building replacement warships for the Department of National Defence. During the initial interviews, the resulting production and dialogue, we were amazed at how you conceptualized and executed the type of work we perform."

- Don Kerr, Director of QA, Saint John Shipbuilding Limited

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" Your understanding of our business and the naval environment is clearly evident in the way you create the small dramatizations and storyboards to convey, to both aircraft and ship command alike, joint maneuver scenarios that have high visual impact. The closing action sequence of your production of the HMS Daring sea trials using the Destroyer and Typhoon Fighter Aircraft was outstanding.”
" Your filming has received praise from officials within the broader BAE Systems organization, the Ministry of Defence and members of the UK Royal family…”
“I would be only too pleased to be used as a future reference should you require it.

- Vic Emery, former Managing Director of the Naval Ships Division, BAE Systems
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"Congratulations on winning a Silver Hugo award at the Chicago Film Festival with your production of "In The World Class".
"The Canadian Patrol Frigate Patrol Project plays a major role in our province's economy... On behalf of the province, may I wish you continued success in the production of award-winning material."

- Hon. Frank McKenna, Premier of New Brunswick

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"...In the World Class ... was as popular with the judges as it is with the military and defence industry."
"Congratulations again."

- Commodore F. W. Gibson, CPF Project Manager



AWARDS:

MCA-I MEDIA FESTIVAL 2008 SILVER REEL (Communications)
"DARING SEA TRIALS" promotes sea trial successes of destroyer HMS Daring

CHICAGO / INTERCOM 2006 SILVER PLAQUE (Mrktng)
“OPERATION: SHIP ACCEPTANCE TRIALS” promotes naval capabilities of KDB Nakhoda Ragam Class OPV’s

CHICAGO / INTERCOM 2006 Certificate of Merit (Mrktng)
“BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER” promotes shipbuilding capabilities of BAE Systems

CHICAGO / INTERCOM 2006 Certificate of Merit (Inspirational)
“DAY OF THE LAUNCH“ documents the Countess of Wessex launching HMS Daring

ITVA CANADA 1995 BRONZE OAK AWARD (Mrktng)
“CITY CLASS FRIGATES” promotes Canada’s patrol frigates and the Canadian Navy
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COLUMBUS 1993 BRONZE PLAQUE AWARD (Mrktng)
“THE NEW DEFENDERS” promotes capabilities of Canada’s City Class Frigates and Saint John Shipbuilding Limited

CHICAGO / INTERCOM 1992 SILVER HUGO (PR)
“IN THE WORLD CLASS” promotes capabilities of HMCS Halifax and the Canadian Navy & defense industry