Lacey Percival

	Lacey Percival Lacey Percival (11 February 1885 - 7 August 1968) was an Australian cinematographer who worked on many early Australian silent films. He worked for the Australian Photo-Play Company then joined West's Pictures. When that company merged with Australasian Films he ran their weekly newsreel, ''Australasian Gazette'' until 1925. Two years later he went to work for Automatic Film Laboratories, then in 1935 established Percival Film Laboratories which he ran until his retirement in 1948. Filmography '' The Golden West'' (1911) ''The Martyrdom of Nurse Cavell'' (1916) ''£500 Reward'' (1918) '' His Convict Bride'' (1918) ''Cupid Camouflaged'' (1918) '' The Face at the Window'' (1919) ''Desert Gold'' (1919) ''The Man from Snowy River'' (1920) ''Robbery Under Arms'' (1920) '' Possum Paddock'' (1921) '' The Betrayer'' (1921) ''The Dinkum Bloke (1923) '' The Dingo'' (1923) '' Prehistoric Hayseeds'' (1923) '' The Digger Earl'' (1924) '' Dope'' (1924) ''Joe'' (1924) ''Painted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Australian Photo-Play Company The Australian Photo-Play Company was a short-lived but highly productive Australian film production company which operated from 1911 to 1912. Establishment Stanley Crick, who was Pathe Freres manager in Australia, and Herbert Finlay had enjoyed success producing a series of Australian films directed by John Gavin. They decided to establish the Australian Photo-Play Company in June 1911 under the management of Crick with capital of £20,000. (Gavin later claimed it was his idea to form the company.) It was stated in the initial prospectus the aim of the company was to purchase Crick and Finlay's film manufacturing business. The initial directors of the company Philip Lytton, Stanley Crick, Dr Sherlock Mason, Arthur Upjohn, and Douglas Selkirk. The company decided to erect two studios for film production – "one capable of producing large spectacular productions, and another smaller interior productions." A studio was built in Summer Hill in Sydney. The company secured the ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Digger Earl ''The Digger Earl'' is a 1924 Australian film comedy from director Beaumont Smith. The plot is about a typical Australian (Arthur Tauchert) who takes the place of an earl. Only eight minutes of the film survives today.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 120. Plot Bill Jones is an Aussie who leaves to serve in World War I in 1917, promising to return to his girlfriend Winnie. In France he rescues two of his friends after a disastrous attack. His mates want brandy and Bill tries to get some from an officer's tent; he is captured and sent to headquarters. After the war Bill is penniless in London. He joins the crew of a boat bound for Australia and meets the likeable Earl of Margate. The publicity-shy Earl is not happy to discover that Sydney newspapers have made his visit to Australia widely known. He persuades Bill to take his place, with the Earl acting as his valet. When t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	National Film And Sound Archive The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national collection of film, television, sound, radio, video games, new media, and related documents and artefacts. The collection ranges from works created in the late nineteenth century when the recorded sound and film industries were in their infancy, to those made in the present day. The NFSA collection first started as the National Historical Film and Speaking Record Library (within the then Commonwealth National Library) in 1935, becoming an independent cultural organisation in 1984. On 3 October, Prime Minister Bob Hawke officially opened the NFSA's headquarters in Canberra. History of the organisation The work of the Archive can be officially dated to the establishment of the National Historical Film and Speaking Record Library (part of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Kingdom Of Twilight ''The Kingdom of Twilight'' is a 1929 film directed by British author and explorer Alexander MacDonald.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p148 Plot Jim Carrington leaves England with his daughter Dorothy after a scandal, and seeks his fortune as a gold prospector in northern Australia. He learns of a mysterious tribe of aborigines but is wounded and captured by the drive. He is given up for dead by everyone except for Dorothy who continues to search for him. She is captured by the tribe as well and discovers her father is alive. They return together to white civilisation where Dorothy is reunited with a young gold miner who loves her. Cast Wendy Osborne as Dorothy Carrington John Faulkner as Jim Carrington Robert Leslie Shepherd Rex Arnot as McCrimmon David Wallace as Reginald Carewe Len Norman as Tanami Laurel Macdonald as baby Herrick Corbett as Puggy Markham Jean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Birth Of White Australia ''The Birth of White Australia'' is a 1928 Australian silent film directed by Phil K. Walsh. It is an historical drama about the settlement of white Australia, including scenes of Captain Cook's landing at Botany Bay, skirmishes with Australian Aborigines and the Lambing Flat riots. This was Australia's last silent feature film, thanks to the advent of "talkies". Plot The film moves back and forth in time. It covers Captain Cook's landing at Botany Bay, clashes with Australian aborigines, and the discovery of gold. The main plot concerns the Lambing Flat riots, which is depicted as partly being caused by the Chinese attempting to murder a white girl after she criticises them for washing their clothes in the drinking water. The film ends with the introduction of legislation restricting Chinese immigration. Cast Bert Trawley as John Davis Dot McConville as Mary Davis Rita Aslin as Miss Dinah Myte Alice Layton as Madame Sefton Frank Hardingham as Tom Kendrick Pietro Sosso a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Down Under (1927 Film) ''Down Under'' is an Australian feature-length film directed by Harry Southwell. It was the first full-length feature film made in Western Australia. It featured the outback, as well as Perth and Kings Park. Plot An Australian vagabond, Walter Nobbage, has a series of adventures, including a trotting race meeting, a cattle muster and an aboriginal corroboree. Nobbage's sweetheart dies and he sacrifices his life for the safe her his dead sweetheart's little boy. Cast Harry Southwell Nancy Mills Ivy Deakin Alec Weird Mrs Compton L Laurence J Austin G Cotter G Temple-Poole J Hennessy D Brown J Southwell A Raven Production The film was financed by West Australian businessmen and shot in that state at Erlistoun Station, Laverton and Perth. Southwell claimed at the time he had a contract to make six films for distribution in Britain. It was the first and only production of Anglo-Australian Films.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Tall Timber (1926 Film) ''Tall Timber'' is a 1926 Australian silent film about a rich man who flees the city and works in a timber mill. It is considered a lost film. In 1937, Cinesound Productions, the company that followed Australasian Films under the Greater Union banner, made a movie set in the timber industry called '' Tall Timbers''. It was directed by Ken G. Hall who claimed he had never seen the 1926 ''Tall Timber''. Synopsis Jack Maxwell, son of a wealthy stockbroker, is disowned by his father after a raucous party, and goes to work at a mill in the North Coast timber district owned by his friend Dick Desmond. He falls in love with Betty Manning, the daughter of the widow who cooks for the workers, and clashes with Steve Black, the ganger of the mill who is behind a spate of timber robberies, who also loves Betty. A sundowner arrives in camp and shoots Steve in revenge for seducing the sundowner's wife years ago. He also reveals Steve has been blackmailing Dick's father for a murder for whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Sealed Room (1926 Film) ''The Sealed Room'' is a 1926 Australian silent film directed by and starring Arthur Shirley. It is considered a lost film. Synopsis Paul Craig (Arthur Shirley) is an aviator-inventor who becomes blind due to overwork. He stumbles into a room as a person is being killed by foreign agents – who decide to let Craig live because he cannot identify them. The murder is part of a plot to overthrow the monarchy of fictional Ruvania. Paul regains his sight and marries Angela (Grace Glover), whose brother was killed by the gang, and who is the ward of Carlo Gelmini (George Bryant), head of the gang. Angela lost her memory with the shock of her brother's death but manages to recover it and help Paul save Ruvania. Cast Arthur Shirley as Paul Craig Grace Glover as Angela Scardon George Bryant as Carlo Gelmini Nellie Ferguson as Della Giovanna Cora Warner Leslie Woods Cecil Scott Carlton Stuart Eric Harrison Muriel Veck John Bruce Harry Halley Walter Bentley Production Filmin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Adventures Of Algy ''The Adventures of Algy'' is a 1925 Australian film comedy from director Beaumont Smith about a " silly ass" Englishman (Claude Dampier) who inherits a sheep station in New Zealand. It is an unofficial follow up to ''Hullo Marmaduke'' (1924), which also starred Dampier. Unlike most of Smith's silent films, most of the movie survives today. Plot Algy (Claude Dampier) is an Englishman who travels to New Zealand to claim a sheep station he has inherited. He falls in love with a neighbour, Kiwi McHill ( Bathie Stuart), then travels to Australia. He runs into Kiwi again, using dances she has learned from her Māori friends in a Sydney revue. When he returns to New Zealand he strikes oil on his farm and he and Kiwi are married. Cast Claude Dampier as Algernon Allison Bathie Stuart as Kiwi McGill Eric Harrison as Murray Watson Billie Carlyle as Mollie Moore George Chalmers as John McGill Lester Brown as stage manager Eric Yates Beaumont Smith Hilda Attenboro Verna Blain P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Mystery Of A Hansom Cab (1925 Film) ''The Mystery of a Hansom Cab'' is a 1925 Australian silent film directed by and starring Arthur Shirley based on the popular novel which had already been filmed in 1911. It is considered a lost film. Plot Oliver Whyte is found murdered in a hansom cab in Melbourne. Brian Fitzgerald (Arthur Shirley) is arrested for the crime and brought to trial, but is acquitted at the last minute by Sal Rawlin, a missing witness who produces an alibi. The mystery involves Brian's fiancée, Madge (Grace Glover). Cast Arthur Shirley as Brian Fitzgerald Grace Glover as Madge Roland Stavey as detective Cora Warner as Mother Guttersnipe Isa Crossley as Sal Rawlin Godfrey Cass Vera Remee Isa Millett Sydney Stirling Carlton Stuart Leslie Woods Frank Barnes Arthur Orbell Charles Vincent John Bruce Billie Sim Background This was Shirley's directorial debut. He had started filming a South Seas romance called '' The Throwback'' in 1920 but had been unable to complete it. He subsequently ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Around The Boree Log ''Around the Boree Log'' is a 1925 Australian silent film by Phil K. Walsh adapted from the poems of "John O'Brien" (Patrick Joseph Hartigan). It tells stories of a priest's life around the 1870s in the Goulburn area.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 128. Unlike many Australian silent films, a copy of it survives today. Plot A priest reads from the book of poems by John O'Brien and recalls his earlier life in the country. He remembers travelling hawkers, his first school, a bishop inspection, childhood romance, and the marriage of a girl to another man. Cast Molly O'Donohue (or O'Donohoe) as Laughing Mary Production The movie was shot on location in the New South Wales bush, mostly at the Wollondilly River area near Goulburn, in early 1925. The director had previously worked as an assistant on ''While the Billy Boils'' (1921) and would direct ''The Birth of White Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

	Lacey Percival Lacey Percival (11 February 1885 - 7 August 1968) was an Australian cinematographer who worked on many early Australian silent films. He worked for the Australian Photo-Play Company then joined West's Pictures. When that company merged with Australasian Films he ran their weekly newsreel, ''Australasian Gazette'' until 1925. Two years later he went to work for Automatic Film Laboratories, then in 1935 established Percival Film Laboratories which he ran until his retirement in 1948. Filmography '' The Golden West'' (1911) ''The Martyrdom of Nurse Cavell'' (1916) ''£500 Reward'' (1918) '' His Convict Bride'' (1918) ''Cupid Camouflaged'' (1918) '' The Face at the Window'' (1919) ''Desert Gold'' (1919) ''The Man from Snowy River'' (1920) ''Robbery Under Arms'' (1920) '' Possum Paddock'' (1921) '' The Betrayer'' (1921) ''The Dinkum Bloke (1923) '' The Dingo'' (1923) '' Prehistoric Hayseeds'' (1923) '' The Digger Earl'' (1924) '' Dope'' (1924) ''Joe'' (1924) ''Painted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Australian Photo-Play Company The Australian Photo-Play Company was a short-lived but highly productive Australian film production company which operated from 1911 to 1912. Establishment Stanley Crick, who was Pathe Freres manager in Australia, and Herbert Finlay had enjoyed success producing a series of Australian films directed by John Gavin. They decided to establish the Australian Photo-Play Company in June 1911 under the management of Crick with capital of £20,000. (Gavin later claimed it was his idea to form the company.) It was stated in the initial prospectus the aim of the company was to purchase Crick and Finlay's film manufacturing business. The initial directors of the company Philip Lytton, Stanley Crick, Dr Sherlock Mason, Arthur Upjohn, and Douglas Selkirk. The company decided to erect two studios for film production – "one capable of producing large spectacular productions, and another smaller interior productions." A studio was built in Summer Hill in Sydney. The company secured the ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Digger Earl ''The Digger Earl'' is a 1924 Australian film comedy from director Beaumont Smith. The plot is about a typical Australian (Arthur Tauchert) who takes the place of an earl. Only eight minutes of the film survives today.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 120. Plot Bill Jones is an Aussie who leaves to serve in World War I in 1917, promising to return to his girlfriend Winnie. In France he rescues two of his friends after a disastrous attack. His mates want brandy and Bill tries to get some from an officer's tent; he is captured and sent to headquarters. After the war Bill is penniless in London. He joins the crew of a boat bound for Australia and meets the likeable Earl of Margate. The publicity-shy Earl is not happy to discover that Sydney newspapers have made his visit to Australia widely known. He persuades Bill to take his place, with the Earl acting as his valet. When t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	National Film And Sound Archive The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national collection of film, television, sound, radio, video games, new media, and related documents and artefacts. The collection ranges from works created in the late nineteenth century when the recorded sound and film industries were in their infancy, to those made in the present day. The NFSA collection first started as the National Historical Film and Speaking Record Library (within the then Commonwealth National Library) in 1935, becoming an independent cultural organisation in 1984. On 3 October, Prime Minister Bob Hawke officially opened the NFSA's headquarters in Canberra. History of the organisation The work of the Archive can be officially dated to the establishment of the National Historical Film and Speaking Record Library (part of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Kingdom Of Twilight ''The Kingdom of Twilight'' is a 1929 film directed by British author and explorer Alexander MacDonald.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p148 Plot Jim Carrington leaves England with his daughter Dorothy after a scandal, and seeks his fortune as a gold prospector in northern Australia. He learns of a mysterious tribe of aborigines but is wounded and captured by the drive. He is given up for dead by everyone except for Dorothy who continues to search for him. She is captured by the tribe as well and discovers her father is alive. They return together to white civilisation where Dorothy is reunited with a young gold miner who loves her. Cast Wendy Osborne as Dorothy Carrington John Faulkner as Jim Carrington Robert Leslie Shepherd Rex Arnot as McCrimmon David Wallace as Reginald Carewe Len Norman as Tanami Laurel Macdonald as baby Herrick Corbett as Puggy Markham Jean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Birth Of White Australia ''The Birth of White Australia'' is a 1928 Australian silent film directed by Phil K. Walsh. It is an historical drama about the settlement of white Australia, including scenes of Captain Cook's landing at Botany Bay, skirmishes with Australian Aborigines and the Lambing Flat riots. This was Australia's last silent feature film, thanks to the advent of "talkies". Plot The film moves back and forth in time. It covers Captain Cook's landing at Botany Bay, clashes with Australian aborigines, and the discovery of gold. The main plot concerns the Lambing Flat riots, which is depicted as partly being caused by the Chinese attempting to murder a white girl after she criticises them for washing their clothes in the drinking water. The film ends with the introduction of legislation restricting Chinese immigration. Cast Bert Trawley as John Davis Dot McConville as Mary Davis Rita Aslin as Miss Dinah Myte Alice Layton as Madame Sefton Frank Hardingham as Tom Kendrick Pietro Sosso a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Down Under (1927 Film) ''Down Under'' is an Australian feature-length film directed by Harry Southwell. It was the first full-length feature film made in Western Australia. It featured the outback, as well as Perth and Kings Park. Plot An Australian vagabond, Walter Nobbage, has a series of adventures, including a trotting race meeting, a cattle muster and an aboriginal corroboree. Nobbage's sweetheart dies and he sacrifices his life for the safe her his dead sweetheart's little boy. Cast Harry Southwell Nancy Mills Ivy Deakin Alec Weird Mrs Compton L Laurence J Austin G Cotter G Temple-Poole J Hennessy D Brown J Southwell A Raven Production The film was financed by West Australian businessmen and shot in that state at Erlistoun Station, Laverton and Perth. Southwell claimed at the time he had a contract to make six films for distribution in Britain. It was the first and only production of Anglo-Australian Films.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Tall Timber (1926 Film) ''Tall Timber'' is a 1926 Australian silent film about a rich man who flees the city and works in a timber mill. It is considered a lost film. In 1937, Cinesound Productions, the company that followed Australasian Films under the Greater Union banner, made a movie set in the timber industry called '' Tall Timbers''. It was directed by Ken G. Hall who claimed he had never seen the 1926 ''Tall Timber''. Synopsis Jack Maxwell, son of a wealthy stockbroker, is disowned by his father after a raucous party, and goes to work at a mill in the North Coast timber district owned by his friend Dick Desmond. He falls in love with Betty Manning, the daughter of the widow who cooks for the workers, and clashes with Steve Black, the ganger of the mill who is behind a spate of timber robberies, who also loves Betty. A sundowner arrives in camp and shoots Steve in revenge for seducing the sundowner's wife years ago. He also reveals Steve has been blackmailing Dick's father for a murder for whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Sealed Room (1926 Film) ''The Sealed Room'' is a 1926 Australian silent film directed by and starring Arthur Shirley. It is considered a lost film. Synopsis Paul Craig (Arthur Shirley) is an aviator-inventor who becomes blind due to overwork. He stumbles into a room as a person is being killed by foreign agents – who decide to let Craig live because he cannot identify them. The murder is part of a plot to overthrow the monarchy of fictional Ruvania. Paul regains his sight and marries Angela (Grace Glover), whose brother was killed by the gang, and who is the ward of Carlo Gelmini (George Bryant), head of the gang. Angela lost her memory with the shock of her brother's death but manages to recover it and help Paul save Ruvania. Cast Arthur Shirley as Paul Craig Grace Glover as Angela Scardon George Bryant as Carlo Gelmini Nellie Ferguson as Della Giovanna Cora Warner Leslie Woods Cecil Scott Carlton Stuart Eric Harrison Muriel Veck John Bruce Harry Halley Walter Bentley Production Filmin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Adventures Of Algy ''The Adventures of Algy'' is a 1925 Australian film comedy from director Beaumont Smith about a " silly ass" Englishman (Claude Dampier) who inherits a sheep station in New Zealand. It is an unofficial follow up to ''Hullo Marmaduke'' (1924), which also starred Dampier. Unlike most of Smith's silent films, most of the movie survives today. Plot Algy (Claude Dampier) is an Englishman who travels to New Zealand to claim a sheep station he has inherited. He falls in love with a neighbour, Kiwi McHill ( Bathie Stuart), then travels to Australia. He runs into Kiwi again, using dances she has learned from her Māori friends in a Sydney revue. When he returns to New Zealand he strikes oil on his farm and he and Kiwi are married. Cast Claude Dampier as Algernon Allison Bathie Stuart as Kiwi McGill Eric Harrison as Murray Watson Billie Carlyle as Mollie Moore George Chalmers as John McGill Lester Brown as stage manager Eric Yates Beaumont Smith Hilda Attenboro Verna Blain P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Mystery Of A Hansom Cab (1925 Film) ''The Mystery of a Hansom Cab'' is a 1925 Australian silent film directed by and starring Arthur Shirley based on the popular novel which had already been filmed in 1911. It is considered a lost film. Plot Oliver Whyte is found murdered in a hansom cab in Melbourne. Brian Fitzgerald (Arthur Shirley) is arrested for the crime and brought to trial, but is acquitted at the last minute by Sal Rawlin, a missing witness who produces an alibi. The mystery involves Brian's fiancée, Madge (Grace Glover). Cast Arthur Shirley as Brian Fitzgerald Grace Glover as Madge Roland Stavey as detective Cora Warner as Mother Guttersnipe Isa Crossley as Sal Rawlin Godfrey Cass Vera Remee Isa Millett Sydney Stirling Carlton Stuart Leslie Woods Frank Barnes Arthur Orbell Charles Vincent John Bruce Billie Sim Background This was Shirley's directorial debut. He had started filming a South Seas romance called '' The Throwback'' in 1920 but had been unable to complete it. He subsequently ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Around The Boree Log ''Around the Boree Log'' is a 1925 Australian silent film by Phil K. Walsh adapted from the poems of "John O'Brien" (Patrick Joseph Hartigan). It tells stories of a priest's life around the 1870s in the Goulburn area.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 128. Unlike many Australian silent films, a copy of it survives today. Plot A priest reads from the book of poems by John O'Brien and recalls his earlier life in the country. He remembers travelling hawkers, his first school, a bishop inspection, childhood romance, and the marriage of a girl to another man. Cast Molly O'Donohue (or O'Donohoe) as Laughing Mary Production The movie was shot on location in the New South Wales bush, mostly at the Wollondilly River area near Goulburn, in early 1925. The director had previously worked as an assistant on ''While the Billy Boils'' (1921) and would direct ''The Birth of White Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]