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Hiawatha, the Messiah of the Ojibway is the first dramatic short film to be shot in Canada directed by the American pioneering cinematographer Joe Rosenthal, based on the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous poem, The Song of Hiawatha, made in Desbarats, Ontario, with a cast of Ojibway First Nations people.[1][2]

  1. ^ Clandfield, David (1987). Canadian Film. Toronto: Oxford University Press. p. 3. ISBN 0 19 540581 1.
  2. ^ Morris, Peter (1978). Embattled Shadows: A History of Canadian Cinema 1895-1939. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 36. ISBN 0 7735 0323 4.
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