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Charles Chauvel Charles Chauvel i(A5677 works by) (a.k.a. Charles Edward Chauvel)
Born: Established: 7 Oct 1897 Warwick, Warwick area, Darling Downs, Queensland, ; Died: Ceased: 11 Nov 1959 Castlecrag, Chatswood - Gordon - Castlecrag area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,
Gender: Male
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1 6 form y separately published work icon Walkabout Charles Chauvel , Elsa Chauvel , ( dir. Charles Chauvel ) Australia : Charles Chauvel Productions , 1959 Z1611552 1959 series - publisher film/TV

A television documentary series produced and narrated by Charles and Elsa Chauvel, Walkabout follows their travels throughout Australia, largely the outback regions.

The thirteen episodes were 1. Sydney; 2. The Great Divide; 3. Outposts; 4. The Ghan; 5. Droving; 6. Coober Pedy; 7. Rum Jungle; 8. Adelaide River; 9. Homesteads; 10. Picnic Races; 11. Buffalo; 12. Alexandria Downs; and 13. The Last Walkabout.

1 2 y separately published work icon Walkabout Charles Chauvel , Elsa Chauvel , London : W. H. Allen , 1959 Z805891 1959 single work prose travel The Chauvels' journeys include Sydney, Melbourne, Coober Pedy, Alice Springs, Tennant Creek, Brunette Downs, Katherine, Marrakai, and Darwin. 'Includes description of Aborigines and their economic life in the Territory.'
Source: Libraries Australia catalogue record
1 52 form y separately published work icon Jedda Jedda The Uncivilised Charles Chauvel , Elsa Chauvel , ( dir. Charles Chauvel ) Australia : Charles Chauvel Productions , 1955 Z1382736 1955 single work film/TV (taught in 13 units)

'On a lonely cattle station in the Northern Territory, a newly born Aboriginal baby is adopted by a white woman in place of her own child who has died. The child is raised as a white child and forbidden any contact with the Aborigines on the station. Years later, Jedda is drawn by the mysteries of the Aboriginal people but restrained by her upbringing. Eventually she is fascinated by a full-blood Aboriginal, Marbuck, who arrives at the station seeking work and is drawn to his campfire by his song. He takes her away as his captive and returns to his tribal lands, but he is rejected by his tribe for having broken their marriage taboos. Pursued by the men from Jedda's station and haunted by the death wish of his own tribe, Marbuck is driven insane and finally falls, with Jedda, over a cliff.'

(Synopsis from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School website, http://library.aftrs.edu.au)

1 y separately published work icon Eve in Ebony : The Story of "Jedda" Charles Chauvel , Sydney : Columbia Pictures , 1954 Z805885 1954 single work non-fiction

An extravagantly produced publication which explains the background to the making of Charles Chauvel's landmark film, Jedda.

1 2 form y separately published work icon Sons of Matthew The Rugged O'Riordans (US and UK title) Charles Chauvel , Elsa Chauvel , ( dir. Charles Chauvel ) Australia : Universal Pictures , 1949 Z1887973 1949 single work film/TV

'Filmed against the lush, tropical background of the Lamington Plateau it tells the story of an Australia many have never seen ... of Australians heard about but never met. This is the story of pioneers with adventure in their blood and their incessant battle against nature.

'Matthew O'Riordan had five sons–Shane, Barney, Luke, Terry and Mickey. The sons grew up. The farm in the valley is too small to hold them, so Matthew calls a conference and suggests that the boys take up land is Quensland, [sic] where there is unlimited opportunity and plenty of land.

'Matthew informs them of the hardships they will have to endure but fighting is a thing they understand, so they set off.

'After the decision is made the film goes on to describe their battle against what appears to be overwhelming odds. It depicts their passions, their dreams, their hopes and finally their victory.'

Source:

'Odeon', Goulburn Evening Post, 20 February 1950, p.3.

1 11 form y separately published work icon The Rats of Tobruk The Fighting Rats of Tobruk Elsa Chauvel , Charles Chauvel , Maxwell Dunn , ( dir. Charles Chauvel ) Sydney : Chamun Productions , 1944 6939175 1944 single work film/TV (taught in 1 units)

Australia's only fully war-time feature, The Rats of Tobruk focuses on three friends who are cattle droving in the outback just before the outbreak of World War II. By 1941, restless Bluey Donkin, easy-going Milo Trent, and Shakespeare-quoting Englishman Peter Linton have decided to join the Australian Imperial Forces (A.I.F.) and later find themselves in North Africa fighting Rommel's army.

After early successes against the Italian army, the Australian 9th Division finds itself besieged in Tobruk. When not fighting, the men have comic encounters with a barber, while Peter falls for a nurse, Sister Mary, after being wounded. The other two men are also later wounded, but it is Peter who is eventually killed just before the others are able to repel the enemy. Bluey and Milo are then later transferred to New Guinea, where Bluey is injured and Milo killed by a sniper. Bluey manages to kill the sniper.

A romance subplot occurs between Bluey (who prior to leaving Australia was not prepared to settle down with any woman) and the daughter of a squatter, Kate, who is in love with him. When Bluey finally returns home, he and Kate are united.

1 12 form y separately published work icon Forty Thousand Horsemen Elsa Chauvel , E. V. Timms , Charles Chauvel , ( dir. Charles Chauvel ) Australia : Famous Feature Films , 1940 Z1804332 1940 single work film/TV (taught in 1 units) 'Red Gallagher and his best pals Jim and Larry are bored Australian soldiers in Egypt in 1916, constantly getting up to mischief in Cairo nightclubs. When German-backed Turkish forces attack British outposts in the Sinai desert, the Australians rush to the defence, as mounted troops of the Australian Light Horse regiments. They take part in a fierce battle at Romani, then drive on to Gaza, where Jim and Larry are killed. Red is wounded and lost in the desert, but rescued by a French woman, dressed as an Arab boy. Juliet spies on the German preparations at Beersheba, as Red rejoins his unit in time for the final battle. The Lighthorsemen charge Beersheba across open ground, and are victorious against the odds. Red and Juliet find each other in Jerusalem, after the Turks are routed.' (Source: Australian Screen online)
1 5 form y separately published work icon Uncivilised Charles Chauvel , E. V. Timms , ( dir. Charles Chauvel ) 1936 Australia : Expeditionary Films , 1936 Z1567702 1936 single work film/TV

An action adventure, Uncivilised sees Beatrice Lynn, a successful novelist, journey into the 'unexplored' reaches of north-west Australia to research a book about an Aboriginal tribe who is believed to be ruled by a white king, Mara. On the way there she is abducted by an Afghan trader, but the strange song of the Mara echoes through the jungle. The white chieftain later buys her from the Afgani, and attempts to win her love. Meanwhile opium smugglers try to buy Mara's collection of fabulous rubies, as war breaks out between Mara and a renegade Aboriginal warrior called Moopil. Beatrice finds she is falling in love with Mara, as a great battle begins.

2 y separately published work icon Uncivilised E. V. Timms , Charles Chauvel , 1936 single work novel adventure romance A missionary couple are lost in the desert. Their son Martin is raised by an Aboriginal tribe and becomes a 'leader' amongst them. Beatrice Lynne, a society journalist, is sent to look for him but she's captured by an Afghan camel driver, and sold to the very man she's looking for. Slowly she discovers that in fact he's far from what she regards as uncivilised.
1 form y separately published work icon Rangle River Zane Grey , Charles Chauvel , Elsa Chauvel , ( dir. Clarence G. Badger ) Australia : Clarence Badger Productions , 1936 7748206 1936 single work film/TV western

'It is not devoted entirely to a western setting, but tells the story of how a young girl who has been finishing her education on the Continent is recalled to the station home of her father in an outback Australian settlement, and how her antagonism towards his foreman ultimately develops into love.'

Source:

'Parkside Theatre', Queensland Times, 28 April 1937, p.10.

1 1 y separately published work icon Heritage Charles Chauvel , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1935 Z428433 1935 single work novel historical fiction

'In the imperishable story of the colonizing and developing of Australia, a story too vast to be compressed within the compass of the ordinary novel, Mr Chauvel has made no effort to stress the usual glaring themes of brutality, degradation, and misery. At the same time no denial of such conditions is suggested, but shining above the cruel early struggles is the white light of high endeavour, unexampled courage in the face of almost insuperable difficulties, and a steadfast faith in the destiny of this nation.

It is of the qualities of courage, sacrifice, endurance, enterprise, heroism and achievement that Mr Chauvel tells, leaving the leg irons, and the bloodied triangles to fade into a well deserved obscurity, remembering them only when truth shall demand it, but remembering also that such systems, punishments and conditions were then common to the world. Out of tribulation has come triumph, out of misery has come magnificnce, and out of that early heroism has come a mighty heritage.' - Dust jacket flap

1 form y separately published work icon Heritage Charles Chauvel , ( dir. Charles Chauvel ) Australia : Expeditionary Films , 1935 7748889 1935 single work film/TV (taught in 1 units)

'The main thread of the story is made the history of two families. James Morrison is a stalwart teamster of the early days, who is somewhat irresponsible in his romantic adventures. He is engaged to marry Jane Judd. When a cargo of girls arrives in Sydney he meets Biddy, a sweet little Irish girl, whom he decides to marry. He goes back to the country to tell Jane all about it, but circumstances force him into marrying Jane against his inclinations. The foresaken [sic] Biddy also marries. She and her husband are speared by blacks, and Morrison, who has ridden to their rescue; is given custody of the infant son by the dying Biddy. The Morrisons bring up Biddy's son with their own. The two infants establish families, and the picture closes with the grant-grandson [sic] of one marrying the great-granddaughter of the other, and both families are united in the pioneering of Northern Australia.'

Source:

'Pictures of the Week', The Australasian, 1 June 1935, p.17.

2 5 y separately published work icon In the Wake of the Bounty : To Tahiti and Pitcairn Island Charles Chauvel , Sydney : Endeavour Press , 1933 Z805888 1933 single work

A documentary-style book by Chauvel published to coincide with the release of his film, In the Wake of the Bounty.

1 6 form y separately published work icon In the Wake of the Bounty Charles Chauvel , ( dir. Charles Chauvel ) Australia : Expeditionary Films , 1933 6939997 1933 single work film/TV (taught in 1 units)

The first of two docudramas by Charles Chauvel (the other is Heritage), In the Wake of the Bounty retells the story of the mutiny led by Fletcher Christian in 1789 against William Bligh, depicting the fate of the mutineers on Tahiti and Pitcairnis. Presented as part narrative and part travelogue, the film uses introductory enacted scenes showing the mutiny, followed by documentary footage, anthropological style, of the mutineers' descendants on Pitcairn Island (including Polynesian women dancers) and an underwater shipwreck.

1 6 form y separately published work icon The Moth of Moonbi Charles Chauvel , ( dir. Charles Chauvel ) Australia : Australian Film Productions , 1926 Z1719800 1926 single work film/TV

'Charles Chauvel's first feature tells the story of a country girl, Dell Ferris (the Moth of Moonbi), drawn to the bright lights of the big city where her inheritance is soon frittered away with high society revelling. A wiser Dell returns to Moonbi Station where she is beset by the cattle rustler Jack Bronson, but finally finds peace and happiness with the faithful head stockman, Tom.

Shot on location in the bush outside Brisbane the film was also made at an improvised studio at the rear of a guest house in the city. Despite cold weather, cast and crew camped out with pack-horses and sheep for fresh meat. This first effort of Chauvel's (he appears in the film in blackface as an Aboriginal stockman) showed signs of the action director's career characteristics. He shot on difficult locations with new acting talent and told an Australian story which gave heroic dimensions to ordinary lives. Scenes of station life are authentic pictures of cattle yards, transportation by train, and the sale yards. The production cost 4400 pounds and was released at the Wintergarden Theatre, Brisbane on 25 January 1926' (National Film and Sound Archive).

1 1 form y separately published work icon Greenhide Charles Chauvel , ( dir. Charles Chauvel ) Australia : Australian Film Productions , 1926 7594463 1926 single work film/TV

A city girl is slowing disabused of her romantic opinions about life on a cattle station.

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