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Raymond Longford was a prolific Australian film director, writer, producer, and actor during the silent era. Longford was a major director of the silent film era of the Australian cinema. He formed a production team with Lottie Lyell. His contributions to Australian cinema with his ongoing collaborations with Lyell, including The Sentimental Bloke (1919) and The Blue Mountains Mystery (1921), prompted the Australian Film Institute's AFI Raymond Longford Award, inaugurated in 1968, to be named in his honour.
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Vera James Munro was a New Zealand actress who worked in theatre and film. In 1929 she appeared in the first all-talking, all-colour feature length movie ever made, Warner Bros On with the Show!, and was already well known for starring in A Girl of the Bush in 1921.
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References
- 1 2 3 Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p. 79
- ↑ "MASONIC INSTALLATION". Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser . NSW. 25 June 1918. p. 2. Retrieved 7 February 2016– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Advertising". The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers' Advocate . Parramatta, NSW. 20 April 1918. p. 4. Retrieved 18 July 2012– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "WALLSEND AND PLATTSBURG". Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate . 8 July 1918. p. 6. Retrieved 7 February 2016– via National Library of Australia.
