Film Record: Voyageur’s Trail

Date produced: 1936

Filmmaker(s):

Duncan MacD. Little

Languages:

English

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

American Cinematographer Amateur Movie Makers Contest, 1937 - Honorable Mention
Ninth Annual Little Movie Party, 1938

Description:

"Last, but by no means least on the list of honorable mentions, is Duncan MacD. Little's 'Voyageur's Trail,' a news film of a four-day canoe race in Canada. This film, photographed perforce under whatever conditions happened to obtain at the moment the action occurred, represents a remarkable achievement in amateur news filming, for which Little is to be commended in the highest terms." American Cinematographer, Feb. 1938, 78.

Resources:

Screenings of the film are discussed in the following: "Littles Honored in Three Rivers Country at 'Voyaguers' Premier," American Cinematographer, March 1938, 131; "Attire une Foule Monstre," L'Echo du St-Maurice, Aug. 4, 1938, 3; "Canadians Pack Sports Arena to See Duncan Little's Film of Race," American Cinematographer, Sept. 1938, 385.

Locations:

• Trois-Rivières, Quebec (Filming)

Subjects:

• Locomotion
•      Boats and Boating
•           Canoes and canoeing
• Nature
•      Geography
• North America
•      Canada

Genre:

• Documentary

Screenings:

• Premiered at a meeting of La Societe le Flambeau in 1938: Trois-Rivières, QC
• Screened publicly at a theatre in Shawinigan Falls on July 30, 1938: Shawinigan Falls, QC
• Screened at the Ninth Annual Little Movie Party, 1938: McMillin Theatre, New York, NY

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