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A Race for Ties
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1929Item number (ISN):234333Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:MITCHELL, DorotheaAccession:1969-0023Media:FilmPart:1 of 1Production date:1929Release date:1929-05-01Production company:Amateur Cinema Society of Thunder BayProduction credit:director, Harold Harcourt; production manager/producer/assistant director/scenario/editing/casting, M. Dorothea Mitchell; photography, Fred Cooper; Fred Lovelady; William J. "Bill" Lovelady; titles, DunbarCast credit:Martha Lake, William "Bill" Gibson, Harold Saunders, M. Dorothea Mitchell, Wally McComber, Harold Harcourt, F. Duncan Roberts, Ed Lindey, Fred Lovelady, Eddie CookDescription:A RACE FOR TIES is the first film made by the Port Arthur Amateur Cinema Society, and it also has the distinction of being the first amateur feature-length film made in Canada. Based on the real life experience of Dorothea Mitchell shortly after she became the first single woman granted a homestead in Ontario, the story is about a small sawmill owner, Joe Atwood, and his race against a large timber company, headed my U. Cheetem, for a railway contract. <60mn>Language:Silent with English intertitlesNotes:Genre:DRAMADetailed holdings information: -
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