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lost and much dissatisfaction was heard. The negative was recently donated to the Canadian Film Archive by Associat¬ ed Screen News, which had acquired it from the Ontario Government.
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In 1932 newspaper stories said that a million-dollar company, Canada Produc¬ tions, Ltd. was being organized to use
Foreigner,” both shot in Winnipeg. Others of Shipman’s Canadian-made pic¬ tures were Blue Waters, shot in the Maritimes, The Rapids, a story of Sault Ste. Marie, and Back to God’s Country.
In 1914 the British American Film Company, Montreal, made Dollard des Ormaux, which depicted the battle of Long Sault and the World Film Com
N. L. NATHANSON
(1886-1943)
the Trenton studio for talking pictures aimed at the quota market. It never got going. Nor did many others with the same idea.
‘C'RUITFUL years in Canadian produc" tion were from 1919 to 1923 when Ernest Shipman, a noted producer with headquarters in Winnipeg and Ottawa, made some films of real boxoffice value. They included films based on such of the late Ralph Conner’s books as "The Sky Pilot,” made in Calgary, and “The Man From Glengarry” and “The
pany, New York and Toronto, produced The Dollar Mark around Cobourg, On¬ tario. In 1921 Canadian Photoplay Pro¬ duction Limited made Power and an¬ other picture, then in 1924 MGM pro¬ duced The Shooting of Dan McGrew. In 1928 the company made The Trail of ’98.
One of the Canadians to provide basic material for films about Canada was the famed historian, George M. Wrong, for in 1922 Yale University made Gate¬ way of the West and Wolfe and Mont¬ calm, both drawn from his “Washington and His Comrades in Arms.”
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