Pommy Arrives in Australia
Directed byRaymond Longford[1]
Written byRaymond Longford
Starring
CinematographyFranklyn Barrett
Production
company
Release date
11 August 1913[2]
CountryAustralia
LanguagesSilent film
English intertitles

Pommy Arrives in Australia is a 1913 Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford. The director's first comedy, and the first purely comic feature made in Australia,[3] [4][5]

It is considered a lost film.

Synopsis

An English immigrant is caught up in a series of comic incidents in Australia due to a trio of local tomboys.[6]

According to contemporary accounts, two of the accounts were: "One day last week a new arrival, dressed in a conventional Nortolk jacket and a cap with the regulation check pattern, stepped out of a tramcar, and, quite Ignorant of the fact that Sydney possessed a careful Lord Mayor, absent-mindedly dropped his ticket upon the road. He was pounced upon by one of the City Council's uniformed officias, and there ensued a strenuous and mirth-provoking passage-at-arms between tho two. Later on the same 'Pommy' was seen out at La Ferouse, surrounded' by an excited horde oi fearful cannibals, all bent Upon testing imported stock"[2]

Cast

Production

There had been comic shorts made in Australia prior to this movie, such as Percy Gets a Job (1912) but this was the first feature-length comedy.[3] Longford later went on to make the comedy short Ma Hogan's New Boarder.

Reception

The film only had a short run in cinemas and is among Longford's least known works.[8]

The film appeared on a bill with two supporting Australian films Christmas in Australia and Whaling in Jervis Bay.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Raymond Longford", Cinema Papers, January 1974 p51
  2. 1 2 "MOVING PICTURES". Referee. No. 1396. New South Wales, Australia. 6 August 1913. p. 16. Retrieved 7 January 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. 1 2 Graham Shirley and Brian Adams, Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years, Currency Press 1989 p 48
  4. ↑ "Advertising". Evening News. No. 14, 414. New South Wales, Australia. 19 August 1913. p. 5. Retrieved 7 January 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ "Longford Quits Australia; Indicts Govt. Interference.", Everyones. (Vol.10 No.475 (27 March 1929)), nla.obj-578049585, retrieved 7 January 2024 – via Trove
  6. ↑ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 40
  7. ↑ "An Australian Film Pioneer.", Everyones. (Vol.4 No.294 (21 October 1925)), nla.obj-570545333, retrieved 7 January 2024 – via Trove
  8. ↑ "Advertising". Warwick Examiner and Times (St. Lucia, Qld. : 1867 – 1919). St. Lucia, Qld. 6 June 1914. p. 1. Retrieved 21 April 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ↑ "ALONG FILM ROW Folk. Fact and Fancy....The Laughs and Laments of the Trade", Everyones. (Vol.13 No.682 (22 March 1933)), nla.obj-560209152, retrieved 7 January 2024 – via Trove


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