“A Reel Pioneer” is a documentary film about a little known pioneer of Canadian film and a group of modern day filmmakers who restore her last film.
Dorothea Mitchell was the first female independent filmmaker in Canada and her story is quintessentially Canadian.

The through line for “A Reel Pio...

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 experiences of Dorothea Mitchell shortly after she became the first single woman granted a homest...

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...

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 ...

City of the Giant: the Seaway's inland terminal, is a "booster film" about the city of Port Arthur.

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.

In 1868 Canada as a nation was one year old and for the most part a relatively untouched land dominated by a harsh and lonely wilderness, The North Shore of Lake Superior was one such area and in that year the government decided to levy a tax upon all mineral lands.

As such the Montreal mining c...

A short film made in 1925 about the Lakehead region and its potential for development.

1960 Brier in Fort William Ontario

A Newsreel covering Canadian events from 1949.

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 short clip about the way log rolling was done.

A Castle Films Newsreel covering events from 1939.

A Castle Films Newsreel covering events from 1945.

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.

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 Castle Films Newsreel covering events from 1946.