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Frank Coffey
Frank Coffey was an Australian author, cameraman, director, and screenwriter who worked mostly on the production of documentaries. For a number of years, he was in-house writer for Cinesound Productions. Coffey worked in the camera department of Cinesound in the early 1930s. In 1935 he joined Charles Chauvel as assistant cameraman on ''Uncivilised''. In the late 1940s, he was charge of documentary productions for Movietone. Select credits *'' The Hayseeds'' (1933) – editor *''Grandad Rudd'' (1934) – camera department *''Strike Me Lucky'' (1934) – camera department *'' When the Kellys Rode'' (1934) – camera department *'' Uncivilised'' (1936) – assistant director *'' Rangle River'' (1936) – editor *'' A Nation is Built'' (1938) – editor *'' Gone to the Dogs'' (1939) – story editor *''That Certain Something'' (1941) – camera, editor *''Will There Be a Second Front in Europe?'' (1942) – editor *'' 100,000 Cobbers'' (1943) – writer, editor *''Jungle Patrol'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinesound Productions
Cinesound Productions Pty Ltd was an Australian feature film production company. Established in June 1931, Cinesound developed out of a group of companies centred on Greater Union, Greater Union Theatres that covered all facets of the film process, from production to distribution and exhibition. Cinesound Productions established a film studio as a subsidiary of Greater Union Theatres Pty Ltd based on the Cinema of the United States, Hollywood model. The first production was ''On Our Selection (1932 film), On Our Selection'' (1932), which was an enormous financial success. Establishment Stuart F. Doyle and Ken G. Hall were the major figures involved in the establishment of Cinesound in 1931.UNESCO HONOURS CINESOUND MOVIETONE PRODUCTIONS – Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (Australia Section)< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rangle River
''Rangle River'' is a 1936 Australian Western film directed by Clarence G. Badger based on a story by Zane Grey. Synopsis Marion Hastings returns to her father Dan's cattle property in western Queensland after being away in Europe for fifteen years. She is treated with hostility by her father's foreman, Dick Drake, and her father's neighbour, Don Lawton. The river on the Hastings' property keeps drying up. An English house guest, Reggie Mannister discovers that the river is being dammed by Donald Lawton. Marion goes to investigate as Lawton dynamites his dam. Marion is trapped in the flood. Drake comes her to aid, rescues Marion from drowning and helps defeat Lawton in a whip duel. Dick and Marion are reunited and walk off into the sunset, with Marion holding the whip, literally. Cast *Victor Jory as Dick Drake *Margaret Dare as Marion Hastings *Robert Coote as Reggie Mannister *Cecil Perry as Donald Lawton *George Bryant as Dan Hastings *Leo Cracknell as Barbwire *Georgie Sti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Film And Sound Archive
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting, and providing access to a national collection of film, television, sound, radio, video games, new media, and related documents and artefacts. The collection ranges from works created in the late nineteenth century when the recorded sound and film industries were in their infancy, to those made in the present day. The NFSA collection first started as the National Historical Film and Speaking Record Library (within the then Commonwealth National Library) in 1935, becoming an independent cultural organisation in 1984. On 3 October, Prime Minister Bob Hawke officially opened the NFSA's headquarters in Canberra. History of the organisation The work of the archive can be officially dated to the establishment of the National Historical Film and Speaking Record Library (part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
100,000 Cobbers
''100,000 Cobbers'' is a 1942 dramatised documentary made by director Ken G. Hall for the Australian Department of Information during World War II to boost recruitment into the armed forces. Grant Taylor, Joe Valli and Shirley Ann Richards play fictitious characters. Plot Five men enlist in the AIF – laid back Bill; World War I veteran Scotty, who pretends to be 37 years old; an "old school tie" businessman Peter, who is running his dead father's business, and whose secretary Miss Lane leaves for overseas service as a VAD; the rebellious "Bluey" William Baker; and Jim, who leaves behind his new wife, Jean. Bluey and Bill almost get in a fight when Bluey tries to cut into the line during enlistment but the five soon become friends. The five soldiers go through basic training and become good soldiers. Bill falls for a female chiropodist working at the camp. Bluey, Bill, Jim and Peter get leave and spend a day at Luna Park in Sydney with their women (Bluey has a girl called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Courier-Mail
''The Courier-Mail'' is an Australian newspaper published in Brisbane. Owned by News Corp Australia, it is published daily from Monday to Saturday in tabloid format. Its editorial offices are located at Bowen Hills, in Brisbane's inner northern suburbs, and it is printed at Yandina on the Sunshine Coast. It is available for purchase both online and in paper form throughout Queensland and most regions of Northern New South Wales. History 19th century origins The history of ''The Courier-Mail'' is through four mastheads. The '' Moreton Bay Courier'' later became '' The Courier'', then the '' Brisbane Courier'' and, since a merger with the ''Daily Mail'' in 1933, ''The Courier-Mail''. The ''Moreton Bay Courier'' was established as a weekly paper in June 1846. Its first editorial promised to "make known the wants of the community ... to rouse the apathetic, to inform the ignorant ... to transmit truthful representations of the state of this unrivalled portion of the colony to o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gone To The Dogs (1939 Film)
''Gone to the Dogs'' is a 1939 musical comedy vehicle starring George Wallace. It was the second of two films he made for director Ken G. Hall, the first being '' Let George Do It'' (1938). Synopsis George is a disaster-prone zoo attendant who accidentally discovers a substance that accelerates motion, enabling his greyhound to run faster. This attracts the interest of a gang of criminals, led by Doctor Sundermann (a foreigner), who have their base in a "haunted house" next to the zoo. The criminals kidnap George's dog and plan to substitute their own in an important dog race. George and his friends defeat the crooks and their dog wins the race. George's housekeeper, Mrs McAllister, has a daughter, Jean, who romances vet Jimmy Alderson - but who is also loved by Ted Inchape. Ted kisses Jean after the song 'Gone to the Dogs', causing Jimmy to punch out Ted and Jean to call Jimmy a "beast". Cast *George Wallace as George * Lois Green as Jean McAllister * John Dobbie as Henry App ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tumut And Adelong Times
''The Tumut and Adelong Times and Batlow District News'' is an English language newspaper currently published in Tumut, New South Wales. It was first published as ''The Tumut and Adelong Times'' and has absorbed ''Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News'', ''Tumut-Batlow-Adelong District News'', ''The Tumut Advocate and Farmers & Settlers' Adviser'' and ''The Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser''. History ''The Tumut and Adelong Times'' was first published in 1864 and changed its name to ''The Tumut and Adelong Times and Batlow District News'' in 1949. Four other newspapers have served the Riverina of New South Wales over the same period and each has subsequently been absorbed by ''The Tumut and Adelong Times and Batlow District News''. * 1864 - ''The Tumut and Adelong Times'' is first published. * 1866 - ''The Tumut and Adelong Times and Gundagai Advertiser'' - name changed * 1888 - ''The Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser'' is first published. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uncivilised (film)
''Uncivilised'' is a 1936 Australian film directed by Charles Chauvel (filmmaker), Charles Chauvel. It was an attempt by Chauvel to make a more obviously commercial film, and was clearly influenced by Tarzan. The film is known as ''Uncivilized'' and ''Pituri'' in the United States. Plot summary Successful author Beatrice Lynn is commissioned by her publisher to go to the Outback and locate the "legendary" white man, Mara, who heads an Aboriginal Australian tribe. Travelling by camel, she is abducted by an Afghan cameleers in Australia, Afghan cameleer, Akbar Jhan. He and his group of Aboriginal people provide pituri, a narcotic, to other Aboriginal people. Previously not allowed into Mara's tribal land to sell his wares, Akbar Jhan has schemed to use Beatrice, a white woman, to arouse Mara's interest. Meanwhile, the Australian Mounted Police has its hands full with a missing inspector, an international drug ring, and a tribe of Aboriginal warriors led by Moopil who have kille ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine Entertainment. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and claims to be the most widely read masthead in the country. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The newspaper is published in Compact (newspaper), compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, ''The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an Website, online site and Mobile app, app, seven days a week. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When The Kellys Rode
''When the Kellys Rode'' is a 1934 Australian film directed by Harry Southwell about Ned Kelly. Plot The story of Ned Kelly and his gang. A policeman comes to arrest Dan Kelly, which results in him being shot and Ned Kelly going on the run with his gang. They rob several banks but are captured and killed at the Glenrowan Hotel. Cast *Hay Simpson (Leslie Hay-Simpson) as Ned Kelly *John Appleton as Dan Kelly *Norman Wait as Joe Byrne *Robert Inglis as Steve Hart *Regena Somerville as Kate Kelly Production The film was produced by Imperial Films which was incorporated in 1933 with a capital of £20,000. Southwell had planned to call the film ''The Kelly Gang'', but the Commonwealth censor objected to the use of the word gang in the title. It was filmed on location in the Megalong Valley in the Blue Mountains and in Cinesound's Studio at Rushcutter's Bay. Southwell hired a crew from Cinesound Productions. The film is considered to be first adaptation of the Kelly story with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strike Me Lucky
''Strike Me Lucky'' is a 1934 Australian comedy musical film starring popular stage comic vaudevillian Roy Rene in his first and only film. It was the fourth feature film from Cinesound Productions but proved a box office disappointment. Director Ken G. Hall claimed it was the only one of his features not to go into profit within a few years of release, although the film eventually covered costs. Synopsis 'Mo' McIsaac and his sidekick Donald try to find work to support Miriam, a young orphan girl he finds dancing for pennies in the street; McIsaac is unaware that Miriam is really the missing daughter of rich aristocrat, Major Burnett. Gangster Al Baloney and Mae West impersonator Kate kidnap the girl and Mo is blamed for her disappearance. Mo and Donald take off into the bush looking for a gold mine (this storyline was inspired by the 1930 expedition to find Lasseter's Reef). Here they are attacked by a tribe of Aboriginal cannibals before discovering their names are cleare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
