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Hiawatha, the Messiah of the Ojibway
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'Hiawatha, the Messiah of the Ojibway' is a 1903 dramatic short film shot in Canada directed by the American pioneering cinematographer and director 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. According to the 'Canadian Journal of Film Studies', it was the first dramatic narrative film to be shot in Canada.
At 15 minutes, 'Hiawatha' was considerably longer than the usual productions of 1903, which rarely exceeded three minutes. The film's subtitle was 'The Passion Play of America' and was largely a photographed stage play with Longfellow's words spoken in a natural surrounding.
It is considered a lost film.
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