Trooper Campbell
1914 Australian film
- 1914 (1914)
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Trooper Campbell is a 1914 film from director Raymond Longford based on a poem by Henry Lawson.[2][3]
The movie is one of Longford's more obscure works. There is some reference to it being made but none of it being released in cinemas.[4]
The movie consisted of visual images to accompany an in-person recital of the poem.[5]
It was considered a lost film[6] but was discovered in the 1980s. Film writers Graham Shirley and Brian Adams stated that the film:
Shows an advance on The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole, not so much in performance, which is still haunted by melodrama, as in the use of depth of field and positioning within the frame... [It] appears to have been hurriedly made (it was never listed among Longford's major achievements) and displays nowhere near the polish of Alfred Rolfe's The Hero of the Dardanelles, completed halfway through the next year.[7]
References
- ^ "Raymond Longford", Cinema Papers, January 1974 p. 51
- ^ "Poverty Point", The Bulletin, 49 (2547), 5 December 1928, nla.obj-601877135, retrieved 6 January 2024 – via Trove
- ^ "Story of g Lost Industry Australia Once Made Films", The Bulletin, 79 (4096), 13 August 1958, nla.obj-702805906, retrieved 6 January 2024 – via Trove
- ^ Trooper Campbell at AustLit
- ^ Trooper Campbell (1914) (extensively revised and rewritten from a lecture delivered originally at the Australian Centre for theMoving Image on February 3, 2003.)William D. Rout
- ^ Eric Reade, History and heartburn: the saga of Australian film, 1896–1978, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1979 p. 13
- ^ Graham Shirley and Brian Adams, Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years, Currency Press 1989 pp. 35–36
External links
- Trooper Campbell at IMDb
- Trooper Campbell at AustLit
- Full text of poem
- Trooper Campbell at National Film and Sound Archive
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Films directed by Raymond Longford
- The Fatal Wedding (1911)
- The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole (1911)
- Sweet Nell of Old Drury (1911)
- The Tide of Death (1912)
- The Midnight Wedding (1912)
- Australia Calls (1913)
- Pommy Arrives in Australia (1913)
- 'Neath Austral Skies (1913)
- The Silence of Dean Maitland (1914)
- The Swagman's Story (1914)
- Taking his Chance (1914) (short)
- Trooper Campbell (1914) (short)
- We'll Take Her Children in Amongst Our Own (1915) (short)
- Ma Hogan's New Boarder (1915) (short)
- The Mutiny of the Bounty (1916)
- A Maori Maid's Love (1916)
- The Church and the Woman (1917)
- The Woman Suffers (1918)
- The Sentimental Bloke (1919)
- On Our Selection (1920)
- Ginger Mick (1920)
- Rudd's New Selection (1921)
- The Blue Mountains Mystery (1921)
- The Dinkum Bloke (1923)
- Australia Calls (1923)
- An Australian by Marriage (1923)
- Fisher's Ghost (1924)
- The Bushwhackers (1925)
- Peter Vernon's Silence (1926)
- The Pioneers (1926)
- Sunrise (1926)
- Hills of Hate (1926)
- The Hayseeds (1933) (asst director)
- Splendid Fellows (1934) (asst director)
- The Man They Could Not Hang (1934)
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