Hiawatha, the Messiah of the Ojibway

Joseph Rosenthal was the director and cinematographer. E. Armstrong adapted Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem The Song of Hiawatha. Hiawatha was 15 minutes long using 800 feet of film. It is considered the first dramatic film in Canadian history.^[2][3] It 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.^[4] It is now a lost film and only a few pictures remain.^[2]

• Ross, Ryan (2012). "Hiawatha, The Messiah of the Ojibway (1903): Photographic Stills From The First Dramatic Narrative Film Made In Canada". Canadian Journal of Film Studies. 21 (2). University of Toronto Press: 140–47. doi:10.2307/24411798. JSTOR 24411798.

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