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Advertisement, Evening News, 18 September 1925, p.4 (via Trove Australia)
Adaptation of
Around the Boree Log and Other Verses
1921
selected work
poetry
Issue Details:
First known date:
1925...
1925
Around the Boree Log
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Film Details - Phillip K. Walsh Productions , 1925 - National Film and Sound Archive , ca. 1996
Producers:
Philip K. Walsh
Production Companies:
Phillip K. Walsh
Director of Photography:
Lacey Percival.
Release Dates:
1. 25 September 1925 (Crystal Palace Theatre, Sydney). The Sydney premiere season lasted two weeks.
2. Released by the National Film and Sound Archive on videocassette format in 1996 as part of a double feature (with The Romance of Runnibede).
Location:
- Shot entirely in the New South Wales bush, and notably around Wollondilly River (near Goulburn).
Notes:
1. Assistant Director: Clyde Marsh.
2. Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper (1980) note that the film received a mixed reaction from the exhibitors. 'With its cheerful faith in education and progress, its pride in Australia, and its Catholic sentiments, the film had a mixed reaction from the commercial trade. Many exhibitors refused to screen it. One distributor explained: "The film appealed more particularly to the Irish section of the community, and on that account some of the showmen took exception to it, thinking that it was Roman Catholic propaganda. We had testimonials, even from Protestant ministers, praising the picture, and showing there was nothing whatever in the nature of Roman Catholic propaganda in it, but, nevertheless, we had great difficulty in booking in in the suburbs"' (p.166).
3. Further reference: Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper. Australian Film 1900-1977, A Guide to Feature Film Production (1980, q.v.), p. 166.
