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Issue Details: First known date: 1918... 1918 The Hayseeds' Melbourne Cup
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' Dad bought a racehorse and she turned out a world beater. Cornstalk was her name and she cleaned up all the prizes round the country race meetings and finally Dad and Jim took her to Melbourne and bunged her in the Melbourne Cup. Dad said he'd go to Melbourne to look after the horse and Mum said alright and I'll go to look after you, so of course the whole dashed family went. Crooks and shady bookmakers tried to nobble the horse, but what happens to those crooks and books is good to see. Cousin Harold had a tough time getting his weight down. He says that every time he looked at a beef steak and kidney pudding, his weight would fly up half a stone. One night in Melbourne Dad came across Jim taking an actress to.supper, "strewth!" said Dad, "that boys goin' it, first he takes on racehorses, now actresses. Next thing he'll be drinkin' shandy gaffe." But come and renew old acquaintances with all the Hayseeds at the Picture Theatre to-night.'

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'The Hayseeds Melbourne Cup', The Muswellbrook Chronicle, 7 September 1918, p.2.

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      Beaumont Smith's Productions ,
      1918 .
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      Advertisement, The Advertiser, 22 June 1918, p.11
      Extent: 4000 feetp.
      Description: Silent; black-and-white
      Series: form y separately published work icon The Hayseeds Beaumont Smith , Australia : Beaumont Smith's Productions J. C. Williamson's Ltd , 1917-1933 7703561 1917 series - author film/TV

      A 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: 4
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