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This photograph shows, from left to right, F. Guy Bradford, Cliff Denham, T. Bell of the CPR, and Joe Rosenthal. It was taken at Dorval, Quebec, presumably in 1900, and the crew's as¬ signment that day was to photograph the initial Imperial Limited to leave Montreal. It is in Den
With the progress of motion pictures in Canada toward the status of a per¬ manent business, projection became a trade and in 1901 George Mehl was elected president of the first Canadian projectionists’ union in Toronto.
/CANADIANS were among the first ^ in the world to recognize that the film was of use as other than entertain¬ ment. In 1898 the Massey Harris com¬ pany arranged with Thomas Edison to make a film of its binder at work on Ontario farms and this, shown at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto and in foreign lands, stimulated sales. This was the first or among the first “industrial” films.
Canada owes a great debt to the film for aid in colonizing its vast spaces. In 1900 the Canadian Pacific Railway arranged with Charles Urban, the
ham's possession and is inscribed "THE BIOSCOPE COMPANY, Operating along the C.P.R. Co.'s Lines." All other photos of the crew's adventures were destroyed when a water pipe burst in the place they were stored. All but Bell came from England to photograph Canada for the CPR.
American who had become prominent in the thriving British film field, to photograph Canada and exhibit the films in the United Kingdom to induce emigration to Canada. Urban, accord¬ ing to “The History of the British Film, 1896-1906” by Rachael Low and Roger Manvell, assigned his chief cam¬ eraman, Joe Rosenthal, to the job and the series made, Living Canada, was offered in his catalogue of May or June, 1903.
With Rosenthal were F. Guy Bradford and Clifford Denham, both of whom remained in this country. Bradford was to become a producer and ex¬ hibitor who opened up many places for movies. He has passed on but Cliff Denham is today manager of the Royal Theatre, Victoria, BC, a Famous Play¬ ers unit.
Denham wrote some recollections of
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