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Greenhide
''Greenhide'' is a 1926 Australian film directed by Charles Chauvel. Only part of the film survives. Plot High society girl Margery Paton (Elsa Chauvel) leaves the city to live on her father's cattle property, run by "Greenhide Gavin" (Bruce Gordon). She carries romantic notions of the bush, of "being swung to the saddle by big brown arms", but Greenhide Gavin is initially only annoyed by her presence. ''Greenhide'' contains a blossoming romance, and the thwarting of a plot to steal cattle. Cast *Elsie Sylvaney as Margery Paton *Bruce Gordon as Greenhide Gavin *Jules Murray-Prior as Slab Rawlins *Irma Dearden as Polly Andrews *Gerald Barlow as Sam Paton *Frank Thorn as Tom Mullins *Joe Mackaway as Phil Mackin *Alfred Greenup as Bill Mullins *Nell Kerwin *George Barrett Production ''Greenhide'' was Charles Chauvel's second film, following '' The Moth of Moonbi'' (1926), and his final silent film. Chauvel scouted his leading lady, then Elsie May Wilcox, after seeing her in a s ...
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Elsa Chauvel
Elsa Chauvel, (''née'' Elsie May Wilcox; 10 February 1898 – 22 August 1983) was an Australian filmmaker and actress, and the wife and collaborator of film director Charles Chauvel. Elsa Chauvel was a pioneer in Australian film making, best known for her contributions to films such as '' Greenhide'', ''In the Wake of the Bounty'', and ''Jedda''. Her legacy in Australian film was celebrated with the creation of the Chauvel Award, dedicated to the work of Elsa and Charles Chauvel, which honours Australian excellence in film. Early years Elsa Chauvel was born Elsie May Wilcox in the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood on 10 February 1898."Chauvel, Elsa (1898–1983)"
, ''Australian Dictionary of Biography: Online Edition.'' Accessed on 3 December 2010.
Her parents were Irish actor Edward Wilcox, also known by his sta ...
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Charles Chauvel (filmmaker)
Charles Edward Chauvel Order of the British Empire, OBE (7 October 1897 – 11 November 1959) was an Australian filmmaker, producer, actor and screenwriter and nephew of Australian army General Sir Harry Chauvel. He is noted for writing and directing the films ''Forty Thousand Horsemen'' in 1940 and ''Jedda'' in 1955. His wife, Elsa Chauvel, was a frequent collaborator on his filmmaking projects. Early life Family Charles Edward Chauvel was born on 7 October 1897 in Warwick, Queensland, the son of James Allan Chauvel and his wife Susan Isabella (née Barnes), pioneer farmers in the Mutdapilly, Queensland, Mutdapilly area. He was the nephew of General (Australia), General Sir Harry Chauvel, Commander of the Australian Light Horse and later the Desert Mounted Corps in Palestine (region), Palestine during World War I. His father, a Pastoral farming, grazier, at 53 also enlisted to serve in Palestine and Sinai Peninsula, Sinai in World War I. The Chauvels were descended from a Frenc ...
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The Moth Of Moonbi
''The Moth of Moonbi'' is a 1926 Australian film directed by Charles Chauvel. It was adapted from ''The Wild Moth'', a 1924 novel by Australian author Mabel Forrest.Chauvel Carlsson, Susanne (1989) ''Charles & Elsa Chauvel: Movie Pioneers'', University of Queensland Press''Writing from the Contact Zone: Fiction by Early Queensland Women''
, Belinda McKay (2004), p53-70
It was Queensland's first feature length film Only part of the film survives today.


Plot

Dell Ferris is a tomboy from the country town of Moonbi who is loved by English head stockman Tom. She goes to the city where sophisticated Margery Daw helps Dell spend her money in high society. Dell returns to Moonbi poorer but wiser and marries Tom.


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In A Monastery Garden
''In a Monastery Garden'' is a piece of light classical music by Albert Ketèlbey, who composed it in 1915 after a visit to a real monastic garden, now the Benedictine monastery of St Augustine's Abbey, Chilworth in Surrey. It was especially successful when performed by siffleur Ronnie Ronalde who often performed it as his finale and sold over a million recordings. Origin There are conflicting accounts of the origins of this piece. Here are four accounts: 1. From ''Franciscans Here and There'', no.34: During Fr. Edgar's noviciate... a visit was made to Chilworth in 1910 by Fr. Edgar's brother, Joseph. The latter, as J.H. Larway, was a well-known music publisher... He brought with him to Chilworth on this 1910 visit a man who was at that time distinguished as a composer, conductor and musical editor: Albert Ketelbey... Joseph Larway and Albert Ketelbey were taken round the friary and grounds of Chilworth. During the tour of the woods Ketelbey turned to Joseph Larway and sai ...
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1920s English-language Films
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Australian Black-and-white Films
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1926 Films
The following is an overview of 1926 in film, including significant events, a list of films released, and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1926 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *February – The oldest surviving animated feature film is released in the Weimar Republic, directed by Lotte Reiniger. It is called '' The Adventures of Prince Achmed'' (''Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed''). *August 5 – Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film, '' Don Juan''. The Vitaphone system uses multiple rpm gramophone records developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric to play back music and sound effects synchronized with film. *August 23 – Rudolph Valentino, whose film '' The Son of the Sheik'' was currently playing, dies at the age of 31 in New York. Riots occur at the funeral parlor as thousands of people try to see his body. *October 7 – Warner Brothers release the second Vitapho ...
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Frames Per Second
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35mm Movie Film
35 mm film is a film gauge used in filmmaking, and the film standard. In motion pictures that record on film, 35 mm is the most commonly used gauge. The name of the gauge is not a direct measurement, and refers to the nominal width of the 35 mm format photographic film, which consists of strips wide. The standard negative pulldown, image exposure length on 35 mm for movies ("single-frame" format) is four film perforations, perforations per Film frame, frame along both edges, which results in 16 frames per foot of film. A variety of largely proprietary gauges were devised for the numerous camera and projection systems being developed independently in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, along with various film feeding systems. This resulted in cameras, projectors, and other equipment having to be calibrated to each gauge. The 35 mm width, originally specified as inches, was introduced around 1890 by William Kennedy Dickson and Thomas Edison, using 120 film st ...
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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 ...
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Hoyts
The HOYTS Group of companies in Australia and New Zealand includes HOYTS Cinemas, a cinema chain, and Val Morgan, which sells advertising on cinema screens and digital billboards. The company was established by dentist Arthur Russell in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Victoria in 1908, showing films in a hired hall. After expansion into other states and several changes of ownership, the majority of HOYTS was acquired by a Chinese conglomerate, the Wanda Group, in 2015. Presently, HOYTS owns and operates 60 cinemas, across Australia and New Zealand, covering 500 screens and more than 60,000 seats, including its newest cinema in Ipswich, making it one of Australia's largest movie exhibitors. History 1909–1930 At the start of the 20th century, Melbourne dentist and cornet player Arthur Russell bought a share in a small touring American circus that visited Melbourne, called HOYTS Circus. Russell toured with the circus as a magic (illusion), magician, but it did not prove to be ...
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