Dorothea Mitchell
Writing
Biography
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
Known For
Dorothea Mitchell – A Reel Pioneer recounts in Mitchell’s own words the amazing life of a pioneer filmmaker. Seventy years later a group of local enthusiasts in Thunder Bay, reinvent the silent pictures, by finishing “The Fatal Flower”,the murder mystery Dorothea had bequeathed to the national Archives of Canada. With no script to work from and some missing scenes, the group nurtured “The Fatal Flower” back to life.
Dorothea Mitchell: A Reel Pioneer
A small sawmill owner competes against a large timber company in hopes of winning a railway tie contract.
A Race for Ties
The plot of The Fatal Flower revolves around a young couple whose budding romance coincides with a rash of bank heists in Northwestern Ontario.
The Fatal Flower
a comedy situated around a bathing beauty contest