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Australian Women's Weekly, 2 December 1939, p.50S
Adaptation of
Seven Little Australians
1894
single work
children's fiction
Issue Details:
First known date:
1939...
1939
Seven Little Australians
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Film Details - O. B. Pictures , 1939
Producers:
Edward O'Brien
Production Companies:
O. B. Pictures
Director of Photography:
George Malcolm
Editors:
George Malcolm
Production Designers:
Harry J. Weston
Mamie Marks
Composer:
Nellie Weatherill
Music:
Gabriel Joffe (Music Director)
Cast:
Incl. Charles McCallum (Captain Woolcot), Patricia McDonald (Esther), Sandra Jaques (Meg), Robert Gray (Pip), Mary McGowan (Judy), Ron Rousel (Bunty), Janet Gleeson (Nell), Nancy Gleeson (Baby), Don Tall (The General), Harold Meade (Colonel Bryant), Nan Taylor (Mrs. Bryant), John Wiltshire (Gillet), John Fernside (The Doctor), Edna Montgomery (Aldith), Howard Craven (Andrew), Letty Craydon (Martha), Connie Martyn (Mary Hassel), Carl Francis (Fred Hassel), Nesta Tait (Bridget), George Doran (groom), Nellie Lamport (school teacher), Mary Swan (Marion), Jean Hart (Betty), Margaret Rousel (Doris), Richard Dowse (Major Martin), Norman Wait (Mr Hill), Eve Wynne (Mrs Hill).
Release Dates:
1. Late-December 1939 (Lyceum Theatre, Sydney - premiere).
2. Made available on videocassette format in 1989 by the National Film and Sound Archive.
Location:
- The country scenes were filmed on location around Camden (NSW), with interior filming undertaken at the Commonwealth Film Laboratories (Sydney).
Notes:
1. Assistant Director: Harry Lauder II.
2. According to Pike and Cooper (1980), the film, which was distributed by Universal, did not fare well either commercially or critically (p. 244).
3. Further reference: Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper. Australian Film 1900-1977, A Guide to Feature Film Production (1980, q.v.), p. 244.
Settings:
- Parramatta River, Parramatta area, Sydney, New South Wales,
- 1890s
