Hiawatha, the Messiah of the Ojibway (1903)

Directed by

Joseph Rosenthal

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

15 min

Rating

3.8 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This short film is based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem about the Ojibway leader Hiawatha. It was shot in Ontario with a cast of Ojibway people. It is considered the first dramatic narrative film made in Canada.

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What happens

Hiawatha, the Messiah of the Ojibway is a 1903 dramatic short film shot in Canada directed by the American pioneering cinematographer and director Joseph Rosenthal, based on the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous poem, The Song of Hiawatha, made in Desbarats, Ontario, with a cast of Ojibway First Nations people. According to the Canadian Journal of Film Studies, it was the first dramatic narrative film to be shot in Canada. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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