Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Apr 21, 2018 23:08:49 GMT
Watched four short films from mid-1950s Australia. All four uploaded to YouTube by the National Film and Sound Archive.
Adelaide Advances, travelogue in colour (unfortunately, not very good colour). In Sydney this short accompanied the Clark Gable film The Tall Men (1955) at a cinema, on a bill which also featured Donald Duck cartoon Bearly Asleep (1955), a Movietone newsreel, and a short of undetermined title (it is listed as both Volcano Violence and Volcanic Violence depending on the newspaper. Neither title brings up anything on IMDb)
Brisbane City in the Sun, another travelogue in colour (again, not very good colour). In Sydney this short accompanied Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) at a cinema, along with additional shorts Land of the Nile (not on IMDb, though an unrelated film with that title is listed on there), Donald Duck cartoon No Hunting (1955) and On To Paradise (also not on IMDb).
Millions for the Finding, dated documentary about mining. In Canberra this accompanied the Van Heflin film Tanganyika (1954) and a very obscure British comedy called His Excellency (1952) at the cinema. Also being shown on that bill was a Fox newsreel.
Ray of Hope, a dated and interesting documentary about the fight against tuberculosis. Theatrical release seems to have been limited (I suspect it was mostly shown in libraries, town halls, stuff like that), but I found one place where it got shown in a cinema: in Port Elliot in South Australia, where at a cinema it accompanied The Queen in Australia (1954), along with the Loretta Young film It Happens Every Thursday (1953), a Metro newsreel, and another short called Princely India (1948)
Adelaide Advances, travelogue in colour (unfortunately, not very good colour). In Sydney this short accompanied the Clark Gable film The Tall Men (1955) at a cinema, on a bill which also featured Donald Duck cartoon Bearly Asleep (1955), a Movietone newsreel, and a short of undetermined title (it is listed as both Volcano Violence and Volcanic Violence depending on the newspaper. Neither title brings up anything on IMDb)
Brisbane City in the Sun, another travelogue in colour (again, not very good colour). In Sydney this short accompanied Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) at a cinema, along with additional shorts Land of the Nile (not on IMDb, though an unrelated film with that title is listed on there), Donald Duck cartoon No Hunting (1955) and On To Paradise (also not on IMDb).
Millions for the Finding, dated documentary about mining. In Canberra this accompanied the Van Heflin film Tanganyika (1954) and a very obscure British comedy called His Excellency (1952) at the cinema. Also being shown on that bill was a Fox newsreel.
Ray of Hope, a dated and interesting documentary about the fight against tuberculosis. Theatrical release seems to have been limited (I suspect it was mostly shown in libraries, town halls, stuff like that), but I found one place where it got shown in a cinema: in Port Elliot in South Australia, where at a cinema it accompanied The Queen in Australia (1954), along with the Loretta Young film It Happens Every Thursday (1953), a Metro newsreel, and another short called Princely India (1948)