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Sweet Dreams : Queensland, Sugar and the 1927 Royal Commission into the Moving Picture Industry
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2011
Sweet Dreams : Queensland, Sugar and the 1927 Royal Commission into the Moving Picture Industry
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'The impetus for the 1927 Royal Commission into the Moving Picture Industry was
the US film companies' 'stranglehold' on the Australian film industry, the effects
of which were perceived as undermining both Australian film businesses and
Australian national identity. The Commissioners took evidence in seven Queensland
towns, some quite small and isolated, with almost all exhibitors from these locations
represented. This evidence constructs an in-depth picture of film business
and consumption in regional Australia, as well as a social, cultural and economic
portrait of the country on the cusp of the Great Depression. This article takes as
its starting point the Commissioners' repeated comparison of the film industry and
Queensland's sugar industry, and their suggestions that the film industry's problems
could be solved by replicating the intervention and support given to the sugar industry
by both State and Federal Governments. These references, the article argues,
reveal the Commissioners' understanding of the film industry, and conjectures that
these conceptualizations may still influence the way Australian films are watched
today.' (Editor's abstract)
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Sweet Dreams : Queensland, Sugar and the 1927 Royal Commission into the Moving Picture Industry
Studies in Australasian Cinema
Subjects:
- The Jungle Woman 1926 single work film/TV
- The Moth of Moonbi 1926 single work film/TV
- Queensland,
- 1927
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