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The Five Of Hearts
''The Five of Hearts'' is an Australian film. It is also known as ''A Maiden's Distress'' or ''Buffalo Bill''. It was reportedly the longest of Cole's films. It is considered a lost film. Plot In the old American west, Rose, the daughter of Colonel Daniels, is kidnapped by a desperado named Black Bill at the instigation of Captain Clarke, a rejected lover. She is taken to an Indian camp where she is subjected to torture by being tied to a tree, and daggers thrown all round her until she is completely surrounded by them. She is rescued by Buffalo Bill, her lover. Black Bill and Captain Clarke are killed. According to contemporary reports, the scenes of the film were: *Captain Clarke's Treachery; *Chloroformed; *On the Trail; *Jim Blake's Shanty; *In the Indian Camp; *Rose Tortured; *Surrounded by Daggers; *Rescued; *Buffalo Bill at the Stake; *The Indian Chiefs Fight with Knives; *Black Bill's Lair; *The Traitors Punished. Another report said that "'the scene is laid o ...
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Australian Life Biograph Company
The Australian Life Biograph Company was a short lived Australian film production company in the silent era. It funded many of the early films of Gaston Mervale and Louise Lovely. The company was formed in 1911 with capital of £6,000 and was based in Sydney. It produced eight feature films in total, all directed by Mervale, who used a stock company of actors including Lovely (then known as Louise Carbasse), Jerome Partick, Godfrey Cass and Harry Beaumont. Movies were shot at Biograph's glass-roofed studio in Manly, New South Wales. In the words of film historians Graham Shirley and Brian Adams "the subjects chosen were predominantly colonial, with no less than six featuring prison themes, usually with an innocent man receiving a pardon or making his escape." Most of them also had a strongly Australian flavour. At one stage the company was earning over £300 a week and employing six lecturers to accompany the films. However they had trouble finding a market for their work and th ...
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Great Southern Herald
The ''Great Southern Herald'' is a weekly newspaper published in Katanning, Western Australia. It is distributed to communities in Katanning, Kojonup, Cranbrook, Gnowangerup and Lake Grace. History The newspaper was first published on Saturday 5 October 1901 to provide residents in Katanning and the surrounding districts with local and general interest news, including agricultural market reports and advice, local political developments, business and services advertisements, sporting results and social events. The newspaper was designed to facilitate an exchange of ideas through public discussion by encouraging residents to contribute to columns on subjects of public interest. It was first published weekly on Saturday, then twice weekly on Wednesday and Saturday, then weekly on Friday. , it is published weekly on Thursday. The ''Great Southern Herald'' contains the following supplements: ''Southern farmer'', ''Regional lifestyle'', ''Countryman trader'' and the ''Great Sout ...
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Lost Australian Films
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Australian Silent Short Films
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Australian Black-and-white Films
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AustLit
AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (also known as AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway; and AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature), usually referred to simply as AustLit, is an internet-based, non-profit collaboration between researchers and librarians from Australian universities, led by the University of Queensland (UQ), designed to comprehensively record the history of Australian literary and story-making cultures. AustLit is an encyclopaedia of Australian writers and writing. BlackWords is a landmark research project by and within AustLit that details the lives and work of Indigenous Australian authors, which includes Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and storytellers. History AustLit was founded in 2000, when several independent databases on a variety of themes related to literary studies was created from work done by research groups at eight universities. The first dataset comprised about 300,000 fairly simple biographical and ...
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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 ...
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The Barrier Miner
''The Barrier Miner'' was a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Broken Hill in far western New South Wales from 1888 to 1974. History First published on 28 February 1888, ''The Barrier Miner'' was published continuously until 25 November 1974. Copies are available on microfilm and online via Trove Digitised Newspapers. The paper was revived briefly in 2005; an index to births deaths and marriages has been prepared which also notes additional publication dates between 16 December 2005 and 31 July 2008. The paper closed down for a second time in 2008 with the managing director, Margaret McBride stating that "...due to commercial reasons the paper would no longer service Broken Hill and the region...". ''The Barrier Miner'' served the growing mining community of Broken Hill, when the area was found to have lead ore and traces of silver. It was not until late 1884 or early 1885 that rich quantities of silver were found and the Broken Hill Proprietary Company (BHP) was floated ...
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Sentenced For Life (1911 Film)
''Sentenced for Life'' is an Australian film directed by E. I. Cole. It was an adaptation of a play performed by Cole and his Bohemian Dramatic Company as early as 1904. It is considered a lost film. Plot A man is wrongly convicted and sentenced as a convict. According to a contemporary report, "Vivid convict scenes are enacted, ending with a revolt by the prisoners. There is a happy ending of wedding bells." It turns out the young man's rival was responsible and he is punished. Chapter headings were: *the Favourite; *it did look suspicious *the Blackmailer, *Outlaw and the Child, *Slight Breeze, *Malaysia, *General Commotion, *Blighted Hopes, *Manufacture of Almonds Cast of theatre production In 1911 the cast of a theatre production of the play in Geelong was listed as follows: *E. I. Cole as Mr. Bertram, *Mr. Frank Mills as Richard Hayward, *W. S. Marshall as Jabez Ooh *J. R. Wilson as Sammy Traddles *Vene Linden as Mary Bertram It is highly likely at least some of ...
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Geelong Advertiser
The ''Geelong Advertiser'' is a daily newspaper circulating in Geelong, Victoria, Australia, the Bellarine Peninsula, and surrounding areas. First published on 21 November 1840, the ''Geelong Advertiser'' is the oldest newspaper title in Victoria and the second-oldest in Australia. The newspaper is currently owned by News Corp. It was the Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers Association 2009 Newspaper of the Year (circulation 25,000 to 90,000). History The ''Geelong Advertiser'' was initially edited by James Harrison, a Scottish emigrant, who had arrived in Sydney in 1837 to set up a printing press for the English company Tegg & Co. Moving to Melbourne in 1839, he found employment with John Pascoe Fawkner, as a compositor, and later editor, of Fawkner's '' Port Phillip Patriot''. When Fawkner acquired a new press, Harrison offered him £30 for the original press, and started Geelong's first newspaper. The first edition of the ''Geelong Advertiser'', which originally appeared w ...
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The Referee (newspaper)
''The Referee'' was a newspaper published in Sydney, Australia from 1886 to 1939. History ''The Referee'' was first published on 20 October 1886 as ''The Sydney Referee'' by Edward Lewis. In 1933 it absorbed '' The Arrow''. It ceased on 31 August 1939. In 1887 Nat Gould started work as "Verax", horse-racing editor for the paper, which published in serial form his first novel, ''With the Tide'', followed by his next five. He returned to England in 1895. Digitisation This paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of the National Library of Australia. See also * List of newspapers in Australia * List of newspapers in New South Wales This is a list of newspapers in New South Wales in Australia. List of newspapers in New South Wales (A) List of newspapers in New South Wales (B) List of newspapers in New South Wales (C) List of newspapers in New South Wales (D) Li ... References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT: ...
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Buffalo Bill
William Frederick Cody (February 26, 1846January 10, 1917), known as "Buffalo Bill", was an American soldier, Bison hunting, bison hunter, and showman. He was born in Le Claire, Iowa, Le Claire, Iowa Territory (now the U.S. state of Iowa), but he lived for several years in his father's hometown in modern-day Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, before the family returned to the Midwest and settled in the Kansas Territory. Buffalo Bill started working at the age of eleven, after his father's death, and became a rider for the Pony Express at age 15. During the American Civil War, he served the Union from 1863 to the end of the war in 1865. Later he served as a civilian scout for the United States Army, U.S. Army during the Indian Wars, receiving the Medal of Honor in 1872. One of the most famous and well-known figures of the American Old West, Buffalo Bill's legend began to spread when he was only 23. Shortly thereafter he started performing in Wild West show, shows that displayed cowb ...
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