Dorothea Mitchell
June 1, 1877 (148 years old) in England
A pioneering filmmaker in Canada. Mitchell co-founded the first amateur film group in Canada, the Port Arthur Amateur Cinema Society, in 1929, and made three feature-length films: A Race For Ties (1929), Sleep Inn Beauty (1929), and The Fatal Flower (1930 but left unfinished). The society's first film, A Race For Ties, has the distinction of being the first amateur feature-length film in Canada
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- 2010 · Dorothea Mitchell: A Reel Pioneer as
- 1929 · A Race for Ties as Aunt Sarah