Title

Filming of IMAX mini-feature Niagara: Miracle, Myths and Magic

Description

LELAWALA HORSESHOE FALLS MAID OF MIST films movies

The film crew set-up this fake pier, constructed to look like a full dock building in the Whirlpool eddy

en-CA IMAX film crews recreated history on October 3 1986 when the "Lelawala" was navigated through the swirling rapids of the Niagara River. The special journey was a recreation of the June 6, 1861 trip of the second maid of the Mist vessel which damaged its smokestack on the rough route to Lake Ontario ; Niagara Falls Review, October 3 1986 ;

Identifier

http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/show.asp?b=1&ref=oo&id=90606

Creator

Niagara Falls Public Library staff

Medium

Photograph

Extent

5.75" x 4" colour photograph

Date

198610

Is Part Of

Leslie Collection

Subject

Niagara River - Lower

Maid of the Mist

Television and Film

Niagara Whirlpool and Rapids

Spatial Coverage

Canada - Ontario

number

D11403

Format

Photograph

Date Created

2003-04-08

Date Modified

2005-04-30