Post by Matthew the Swordsman on May 3, 2017 16:56:02 GMT
Well, not favourites by any means (they are just OK), but lately I've been exploring the murky world of Tasmanian films. The island state starting in the 1950s produced a number of low-budget non-fiction short films, including classroom films, instructional films, and travelogues. Some of them aren't too bad for what they are. They didn't produce any dramatic films in the 1950s/1960s as far as I can tell, though a television station there did do a 30-minute one-off comedy called Happy Journey in 1963, which was a version of a Thornton Wilder play. I have no idea if the TV play still exists.
So far I've watched the following Tasmanian-made shorts:
Learn to Live (1954, 19 minutes)
Half a Pint of Milk (1952, 17 minutes)
Everybody Work, Everybody Help (1952, 14 minutes)
Henry Shoobridge: Hop grower (1952, 14 minutes)
Daily Miracle (1963, 14 minutes)
Appointment in Launceston (1960, 10 minutes)
The Derwent Valley (1953, 10 minutes)
The surprising thing is that some of these are filmed in colour. Crappy colour, mind you, but still colour.
The not-so-surprising thing is that nearly none of them are listed on IMDb, which meant I had to make pages for them myself.
I viewed them on YouTube.
So far I've watched the following Tasmanian-made shorts:
Learn to Live (1954, 19 minutes)
Half a Pint of Milk (1952, 17 minutes)
Everybody Work, Everybody Help (1952, 14 minutes)
Henry Shoobridge: Hop grower (1952, 14 minutes)
Daily Miracle (1963, 14 minutes)
Appointment in Launceston (1960, 10 minutes)
The Derwent Valley (1953, 10 minutes)
The surprising thing is that some of these are filmed in colour. Crappy colour, mind you, but still colour.
The not-so-surprising thing is that nearly none of them are listed on IMDb, which meant I had to make pages for them myself.
I viewed them on YouTube.