[AUSTRALIAN CINEMA] The Man from Snowy River. Hoyt’s Barkly, St. Kilda [and] Kinema, Albert Park … November 8, 9, 10 Three nights only …

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[Melbourne : Hoyt s Ltd., 1920]. Advertising postcard, 89 x 143 mm; recto with an Australian-themed chromolithographic design featuring two magpies, verso printed in red with schedule of forthcoming screenings of The Man from Snowy River at Hoyt s picture theatres in St. Kilda (The Barkly) and Albert Park (The Kinema) on 8-9-10 November, and at Essendon Theatre the following week; superb condition. A rare piece of advertising ephemera for The Man from Snowy River (1920), which is now considered a lost film. Loosely based on the Banjo Paterson poem of the same name, the film starred Cyril Mackay as Jim Conroy, Stella Southern as Kitty Carewe, Tal Ordell as Stingey Smith, Hedda Barr as Helen Ross, John Cosgrove as Saltbush Bill, Robert MacKinnon as Dick Smith, John Faulkner as John Carewe, Charles Beetham as Bill Conroy, Dunstan Webb as Ryan, Nan Taylor as Mrs Potts, James Coleman as Trooper Scott, and Con Berthal as cook. Beaumont Smith bought the film rights to all the works of Banjo Paterson and spent two years writing a script. The copyright was held by Angus Robertson in entirety but they passed some of the money on to Paterson. Smith incorporated characters from various Paterson works, including squatter s daughter, Kitty Carewe, and swagman, Saltbush Bill. The character of Helen Ross, however, was Smith s original invention. Smith later claimed the price of the film rights was the highest ever that had been paid in Australian cinema, with the exception of The Sentimental

• Binding: Hardcover

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