''Trooper Campbell'' is a 1914 film from director Raymond Longford based on a poem by Henry Lawson. The movie is one of Longford's more obscure works. There is some reference to it being made but none of it being released in cinemas. The movie consisted of visual images to accompany an in-person recital of the poem. It was considered a lost filmEric Reade, ''History and heartburn: the saga of Australian film, 1896–1978'', Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1979 p. 13
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Graham Shirley Graham Shirley is an Australian author, researcher, curator and filmmaker best known for his work in the area of Australian film history. He was one of the original class of the Australian Film Television and Radio School and is the co-author ...

and Brian Adams stated that the film:

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The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole ''The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole'', generally referred to as ''Margaret Catchpole'', is a 1911 Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford and starring Lottie Lyell. It is based on the true story of Margaret Catchpole, an advent ...
'', not so much in performance, which is still haunted by melodrama, as in the use of depth of field and positioning within the frame... tappears to have been hurriedly made (it was never listed among Longford's major achievements) and displays nowhere near the polish of Alfred Rolfe's ''
The Hero of the Dardanelles ''The Hero of the Dardanelles'' is a 1915 Australian film directed by Alfred Rolfe, made as a patriotic war recruiting film. Plot Will Brown ( Guy Hastings) enlists in the Australian Army after the outbreak of World War I. He goes through traini ...
'', completed halfway through the next year.Graham Shirley and Brian Adams, ''Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years'', Currency Press 1989 pp. 35–36

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Trooper Campbell
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Full text of poem''Trooper Campbell''
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