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Here began what is now Famous Players Canadian Corporation, by far Canada's largest circuit. In 1916 the late N. L. Nathanson and his associates purchased the Majestic Theatre, on Adelaide near Bay, from Ambrose Small and rebuilt it from an old-fashioned melodrama house into a modern place of enter¬ tainment. It was the first de luxe movie house in Toronto.
Robert Flaherty, who passed on earlier this year, made Nanook of the North around Hudson’s Bay in 1922, and Pathe, its distributor, made and sold an RCMP serial, Queen of the North, in 1929.
First National produced The Knock¬ out, with Milton Sills, in the Ottawa Valley in 1924; The Winds of Chance in British Columbia in 1925; and Entice¬ ment in Banff in 1926.
In 1926 Universal made The Calgary Stampede, with Hoot Gibson starring and the next year Fox made The Coun¬ try Beyond in Jasper Park.
Famous Lasky made The Snow Bride, with Alice Brady, in Northern Quebec in 1923; The Alaskan in British Col¬
umbia in 1925, and The Canadian, with Thomas Meighan in the Canadian West in 1927.
In 1926 The Thoroughbreds, by the Toronto author, W. A. Fraser, became a film.
Destiny was made by Exclusive Can¬ adian Film Company in Toronto in 1927.
In 1927 the National Cinema Studios was organized in Vancouver by Nils Olaf Chrisandon, ex-UFA director, with British financing. Halifax and Calga.ry, others say, had studios which didn’t last long. In those days films were silent and had a better chance in foreign markets; also comparatively little tech¬ nical equipment was required for pro¬ duction.
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