THUNDER BAY - With hundreds of hours of news footage spanning more than two decades, historians and filmmakers are reaching back into the past with new technologies to tell the stories of the region, including a documentary on the city’s first mayor.
The Thunder Bay Museum, in partnership with ShebaFilms Ltd. and Friends of the Finnish Labour Temple, is continuing to work at digitizing more than 20 years of archival news footage donated by Fraser Dougall as part of its Reel Memories of the Lakehead Newsreel Digitization Project.
“This project has really taken off, to scan in all the archival footage from Dougall Media,” said Scott Bradley, executive director of the Thunder Bay Museum.