Evangeline (1913 film)


Evangeline is a 1913 Canadian drama film based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem of the same name. It is known as the first feature-length dramatic movie filmed in Canada, and it was very successful there and in the United States. Directed by Edward P. Sullivan and William Cavanaugh, it was filmed in Nova Scotia. This film was the first of six features made between 1913 and 1914 by the Canadian Bioscope Company of Halifax. It is now considered to be a lost film.

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