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Cheenama the Trailmaker : An Indian Idyll of Old Ontario

Accession number: 
1935.0016

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Production Years: 
1935

Languages:

  • English
Film Properties: 
  • 16mm
  • Silent
  • Black and White
Length (feet): 
3265 (35mm), 1352 (16mm)
Length (minutes): 
37

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Holding Institutions: 

Library and Archives Canada: 35mm, 16mm, VHS, Digibeta.
"A pictorial reconstruction of the long-vanished way of life of the Ojibway Indians. In this film care has been taken to interpret as faithfully as possible the ancient Indian culture of this tribe and to record the life they led before the white man reached North America. The film depicts, among other activities, the gathering of wild rice and the building of birch-bark canoes."

Bibliography: 

Peter Morris, Embattled Shadows: A History of Canadian Cinema, 1895-1939, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1978.

Comments: 
Silent with English intertitles Harlan I. Smith is also credited for the titles