A Castle Films Newsreel covering events from 1945.
The Port Arthur Amateur Cinema Society produced three films in the 1920s. "A Race For Ties" (1929) was Canada’s first feature-length amateur film. Its success led to "Sleep Inn Beauty" (1929) and "The Fatal Flower," which began production in 1930, but was left unfinished. 75 years later, a group ...
A short film made in 1925 about the Lakehead region and its potential for development.
A Newsreel covering Canadian events from 1949.
Made in 1918, this film is a drama that follows a cruise ship around the Great Lakes, stopping in major cities in Canada and the United States.
The second film produced by the Port Arthur Amateur Cinema Society, Sleep-Inn Beauty is a comedy involving a bathing beauty contest and is based on a story adapted by Dorothea Mitchell. The Port Arthur Amateur Cinema Society produced the first feature-length amateur film in Canada in 1929. Mitche...
A Castle Films Newsreel covering events from 1939.
A Castle Films Newsreel covering events from 1942.
Scenes from the Joe Louis and Jersey Joe Wallcott fight in 1947.
Film footage of people swimming in a northern Ontario lake in the 1920s.
A montage of films made in Northwestern Ontario since the invention of moving pictures.
A glimpse of Port Arthur, Ontario in the 1920s.
What remains of a 1924 Ontario Motion Picture Board film looking at the Lakehead's role in the grain industry, comparing the potential of the Lakehead in the early 1920s to that of Ancient Egypt as a hub of civilization.
A film made in 1925 about the James Whalen icebreaker opening up the shipping season at the Lakehead.
A film made in 1922 about electrical power generation at the Lakehead.
A short clip about the way log rolling was done.
A Castle Films Newsreel covering events from 1946.
