Ma Hogan's New Boarder

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Ma Hogan's New Boarder
Directed by Raymond Longford
Written byRaymond Longford
Based onstory by A. Wright [1] [2]
Produced byArchie Fraser
Colin Fraser
StarringCharles Evans
Pearl Bambury [3]
Production
company
Release date
  • 1 July 1915 (1915-07-01) [4]
Running time
2,500 feet [5]
CountryAustralia
Languages Silent film
English intertitles

Ma Hogan's New Boarder was a 1915 film directed by Raymond Longford starring Charlie Chaplin impersonator Charles Evans. [6] In the movie the lead "displays his antics and mannerisms." [7]

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It was one of Longford's few films not to feature Lottie Lyell and is considered a lost film. [8]

Cast

Reception

Theatre managers offered to "supply cotton and buttons free to all patrons who damage them" during screenings of the film." [9]

The Motion Picture News said that Charles Evans "gave a really clever impersonation of Charles Chaplin" but that "the production was too long to be anything more than ordinary." [10]

References

  1. ↑ "Raymond Longford", Cinema Papers, January 1974 p51
  2. ↑ "Bound printed copy of Minutes of Evidence of the Royal Commission on the Moving Picture Industry in Australia (one of two copies)". National Archives of Australia. NAA: A11636, 4/1. p. 145.
  3. ↑ "AMUSEMENT". The Tamworth Daily Observer . NSW: National Library of Australia. 10 August 1915. p. 3. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
  4. ↑ "Advertising". The Evening News . Sydney: National Library of Australia. 29 June 1915. p. 8. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
  5. ↑ "Advertising". The Tamworth Daily Observer . NSW: National Library of Australia. 10 August 1915. p. 3. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
  6. ↑ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 51
  7. ↑ "AUSTRALIAN CHAPLAIN". The Sunday Times . Sydney: National Library of Australia. 27 June 1915. p. 16. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
  8. ↑ Eric Reade, History and heartburn: the saga of Australian film, 1896-1978, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1979 p13
  9. ↑ "Advertising". The Sunday Times . Sydney: National Library of Australia. 27 June 1915. p. 6. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
  10. ↑ "Film News from Foreign Parts", Motion Picture News 11 March 1916, retrieved 23 November 1916
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