The Swagman's Story

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The Swagman's Story
Directed by Raymond Longford
Written byViolet Pettengel [1]
Starring Lottie Lyell
Cinematography Tasman Higgins
Production
company
Commonwealth Film Producing Company
Distributed byFraser Film Company
Release date
  • 2 March 1914 (1914-03-02) [2]
Running time
2,000 feet
CountryAustralia
Languages

The Swagman's Story is a 1914 short film directed by Raymond Longford. Although considered a lost film, it is likely that it was a low-budget support feature. [3]

Contents

Longford claimed the film was refused a release by "the Combine" who dominated Australian exhibition. [4]

Plot

A swagman arrives on the scene of the breakdown of a motor car and tells the honeymooning drivers that he's never liked motor cars as they've never done him any good. He then goes on to explain why – ten years earlier he was living happily with his wife and pretty daughter (Lottie Lyell). Then the daughter marries a "swell city cove" and she becomes a member of the high society set, refusing to meet her unsophisticated mother. The mother is killed by a motor car and the father takes to drinking and becomes a swagman. [5]

Cast

References

  1. ↑ "MOVING PICTURES". The Referee . Sydney. 15 April 1914. p. 15. Retrieved 1 September 2013– via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ "Raymond Longford", Cinema Papers, January 1974 p51
  3. ↑ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 46
  4. ↑ "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.
  5. ↑ "PRINCESS COURT THEATRE". The Morning Bulletin . Rockhampton, Qld. 13 November 1916. p. 4. Retrieved 15 January 2012– via National Library of Australia.
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