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Breaking The News (short Story)
Breaking the News may refer to: * Breaking the News (1912 film), an Australian melodrama film * Breaking the News (2023 film), an American documentary film * Breaking the News (painting) ''Breaking the News'' is an 1887 in art, 1887 painting by Australian artist John Longstaff. It shows the interior of a miner's cottage on the Victorian gold rush, Victorian goldfields with an old man breaking the news to a woman of her husband's ..., an 1887 painting by John Longstaff See also * Breaking news (other) {{dab ...
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Breaking The News (1912 Film)
''Breaking the News'' is a 1912 Australian melodrama film directed by W. J. Lincoln based on John Longstaff's 1887 painting of the same name. It is considered a lost film. Plot According to ''Table Talk'' "The story deals with life in a mining centre in Australia, the play opening with the rescue of Roberts by a party of prospectors after he has been deserted by his mate, who clears off with the gold. The treacherous mate through threats and scheming eventually weds the daughter of the mine manager at whose mine lie is employed as foreman. Roberts also turns up at the mine and is employed; he is at times irresponsible and is ever threatening. The false mate decides to do away with him, and knocks him on the head when below, and in seeking a'place to bury him strikes water and floods the mine. They are both rescued, but the foreman dies, and the father breaks the news to his daughter, who is nursing her young infant. The story ends happily, for the true lovers are re-united ...
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Breaking The News (2023 Film)
''Breaking the News'' is a 2023 American documentary film, directed and produced by Heather Courtney, Princess A. Hairston and Chelsea Hernandez. It follows the launch of The 19th, an independent news organization founded by Emily Ramshaw and Amanda Zamora. The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival on June 8, 2023, and is scheduled to be released on February 19, 2024, by Independent Lens. Premise Follows the launch of The 19th, an independent news organization founded by Emily Ramshaw Emily Ramshaw is an American journalist and news executive. She is the co-founder and CEO of The 19th*, an independent nonprofit newsroom reporting at the intersection of gender, politics and policy in the U.S. The 19th's mission is to elevate the ... and Amanda Zamora. Chronicling the efforts of women and LGBT journalists, guided to elevate voices left out in the mainstream media. Production Production took place during the COVID-19 pandemic. Release The film had its world premi ...
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Breaking The News (painting)
''Breaking the News'' is an 1887 in art, 1887 painting by Australian artist John Longstaff. It shows the interior of a miner's cottage on the Victorian gold rush, Victorian goldfields with an old man breaking the news to a woman of her husband's death in a mining accident. The woman holds an infant in her arms, and two other miners appear in the doorway, carrying the body of the husband on a stretcher. Behind them in the distance stands the mine's headframe. ''Breaking the News'' became etched in the popular imagination, and by the 1890s was "known by reproduction in every mining township in Australia". Painted when Longstaff was still an art student, it won him the National Gallery of Victoria Art School's first travelling scholarship in 1887. ''The Argus (Australia), The Argus'' described it as "a vivid and accurate presentment of a familiar incident in Australian life". Only one month after the painting was first exhibited in Melbourne, eighty-one coal miners perished in a gas ...
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