Breaking the News
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| Directed by | W. J. Lincoln |
| Produced by | William Gibson Millard Johnson John Tait Nevin Tait |
| Written by | W. J. Lincoln |
| Based on | the painting by Sir John Longstaff |
| Starring | Harrie Ireland Arthur Styan |
| Cinematography | Orrie Perry |
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Release dates
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16 March 1912 (Melbourne)[1] |
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Running time
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4,000 feet[2] |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | Silent film English intertitles |
Breaking the News is a 1912 Australian melodrama film directed by W. J. Lincoln based on John Longstaff's 1887 painting of the same name.[3]
It is considered a lost film.
Plot
A prospector looks for a wife to live with him and eventually gets married. While he is in town, the mine floods and miners need to be rescued. The main scenes were:
- mining machinations;
- a woman's sacrifice;
- a man's desperation and love;
- a father's sad mistake
- man's sure revenge.[4]
Cast
- Harrie Ireland[5]
- Arthur Styan
Production
The film was shot at Diamond Creek, near Melbourne.[6]
Reception
The movie was a popular success with critics drawing particular attention to a scene of an underground mine being flooded.[7]
References
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- Breaking the News at IMDB
- Breaking the News at National Film and Sound Archive
- Breaking the News at AustLit
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- ↑ Mary Bateman, 'W. J. Lincoln', Cinema Papers, June–July 1980 p 214
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- ↑ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p32
- ↑ Graham Shirley and Brian Adams, Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years, Currency Press, 1989, p42
