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  Breaking the Ice

  Breaking the Ice

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  A Race for Ties

  A Race for Ties

  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...

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  Sleep-Inn Beauty

  Sleep-Inn Beauty

  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...