Quote:
"Brenda Longfellow's Our Marilyn (1987) is as much a meditation on the extraordinary swim by Marilyn Bell across Lake Ontario as it is an exploration of how to recover history when there are very few archival images to give a historical moment its feel and look."
-- Ron Burnett

Source:
Burnett, Ron. "To Document—to Imagine—to Simulate." In Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema, edited by Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow, and Janine Marchessault. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. (p. 129)