Dorothea Mitchell
Personal information
- Known for
- Writing
- Known credits
- 4
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- June 1, 1877
- Died
- February 2, 1976
- Place of birth
- England
- Also known as
- Lady Lumberjack
Biography
A pioneering filmmaker in Canada. Mitchell co-founded the first amateur film group in Canada, the Port Arthur Amateur Cinema Society, in 1929, and made three feature-length films: A Race For Ties (1929), Sleep Inn Beauty (1929), and The Fatal Flower (1930 but left unfinished). The society's first film, A Race For Ties, has the distinction of being the first amateur feature-length film in Canada
