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- Director: Beaumont Smith
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- Publisher: Beaumont Smith's Productions
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Description: Silent; black-and-white
Series: form y The Hayseeds Australia : Beaumont Smith's Productions J. C. Williamson's Ltd , 1917-1933 7703561 1917 series - author film/TVA series of films written and directed by Beaumont Smith and featuring 'The Hayseeds', a rural family. The films range from rural comedy to science fiction.
The films were very much marketed as a series in the early days, with newspapers identifying each new film by their number in the series.
After the first four films, there was a pause of some years before the next two 'Hayseed' films were released. The comparative lack of box-office success of these two led to another hiatus, before the release of the comedy-musical The Hayseeds (essentially a re-boot of the series, and the only 'talkie' among them) in 1933.
Number in series: 2
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Subjects:
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- Taronga Zoo, Sydney, New South Wales,
Settings:
- Sydney, New South Wales,