Franklyn Barrett

Walter Franklyn Barrett (1873 – 16 July 1964), better known as Franklyn Barrett, was an Australian film director and cinematographer.[1] He worked for a number of years for West's Pictures. It was later written of the filmmaker that "Barrett's visual ingenuity was to be the highlight of all his work, but... his direction of actors was less assured".[2]

Early life and career

Barrett was born in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England, and was raised by his aunt. He was a professional violin player and amateur photographer and claims to have seen the first exhibit of motion pictures at the Empire Theatre in London.[3][4]

Barrett moved to New Zealand with his brother and father to work as a clerk for the latter. He began to experiment with shooting movies, and in 1901 won a prize of £15 for some of his photos. Barrett accompanied the Duke of York on his 1901 tour of Australia in capacity as photographer.[3] He worked for eight months with the Charles Urban Trading Co. Ltd in England. In New Zealand, Barrett made his first film, A Message from Mars.[4]

Australian career

Barrett moved to Australia in 1904, where he worked for several theatre companies.[5] He was the first person to film the Melbourne Cup from start to finish in 1904, and shot several "scenic movies" for the New Zealand and New South Wales railways.[6]

Barrett joined the Melbourne office of Pathé Frères in 1908. He toured through the South Pacific taking films for them.[7][8] Barrett stayed with them when West's Pictures took over in 1911.[9][4] He later wrote "After a period abroad as buyer, I decided that it was time to settle down. It was not the first time I had arrived at this decision and it certainly was not the last. I settled in on Australian dramas."[4]

Drama director

In August 1911 Barrett returned to Australia from an overseas trip and decided to make drama films for Wests.[10] He helped build their new studio.[11] His first film for the company appears to have been a film of the stage play The Christian (1911)[12] followed by All for Gold, or Jumping the Claim, although All for Gold was released first.[13] Barrett said in October 1911, "I have had more pleasure in cinematographing All for Gold, for West's than in all the others [films he made] put together."[14] Barrett continued to make documentary or scenic films for West's such as the 1911 Melbourne Cup.[15] He made a series of thrillers for the company, often with the same cast: The Strangler's Grip (1912), The Mystery of the Black Pearl (1912), The Eleventh Hour (1912) and A Silent Witness (1913).

In 1913 West's merged with Australasian Films and Barrett joined the Fraser Film Release and Photographic Company, for whom he directed A Blue Gum Romance (1913) and The Life of a Jackeroo (1913). He also shot Pommy Arrives in Australia (1913) for director Raymond Longford. In December 1913 Barrett left on an overseas trip for two years.[16]

Barrett returned to Australia in December 1915 having bought the rights to the novel The Pioneeers, which he then adapted into a film.[17] He worked as a cinematographer on films such as The Joan of Arc of Loos (1916), Raymond Longford's The Mutiny of the Bounty (1916) and Jack Gavin's The Murder of Captain Fryatt (1917). Barrett intended to make a film with Dorothy Brunton but when she became unavailable obtained the rights to The Monk and the Woman (1917). He made the war film Australia's Peril (1917) and shot footage for A Romance of the Burke and Wills Expedition of 1860 (1918).

Barrett was cinematographer (and possibly uncredited director) on the first two movies from Snowy Baker, The Enemy Within (1918) and The Lure of the Bush (1918), co producing the latter. He directed the film adaptation of the stage hit Struck Oil (1919).

In 1920 he was part of the Golden Wattle Film Syndicate which made the film adaptation of the stage hit The Breaking of the Drought (19120), directed by Barrett. Barrett then formed his own film company with solicitor Barry Kenward, with whom he made three features: A Girl of the Bush (1921), Know Thy Child (1921) and A Rough Passage (1922). This company eventually folded in May 1922.

===Later career===Barrett moved into theatre management, running the Capitol Theatre in Canberra in 1925, then various cinemas for Hoyts Theatres from 1927 onwards.[9][18] In the mid 1920s he was associated with the Australian Motion Picture Producers Association.[19][20] He spoke in support of the local industry and in 1925 expressed interest in some projects he still wished to make but these were never filmed.[21] In 1930 Barrett wrote, "the value of Australian-made pictures lies in the fact that they must be different. Point for point, we cannot hope' to compete with the splendid productions w" are receiving from across the Pacific Ocean...But if we stick to the type of dhat,. isnatural to us, comparisons cannot be-made' and we have a big chance of interesting the overseas market."[1]

In 1936 Barrett was working as an exhibitor. A trade paper called him "A cheerful personality... a man who thoroughly knows his job, and one who could reca11 many interesting reminiscences about anything or anybody associated with the picture business in Australia."[22]

He died at Randwick, New South Wales on 16 July 1964, and was cremated.[9]

Personal life

Born Walter Franklyn Brown, son of William Brown and Matilda, née Hopwell, Barrett was already a widower by the time he married Mabel Muriel Pile in Perth on 10 December 1906.[9] She predeceased him but the daughter they had together, Harrie "Todds" Barrett, survived him.[9] Todds Barrett went on to become a successful businesswoman.[23]

Franklyn and Mabel's house at 6 Barrett Place Randwick, their home from 1911 to 1926, has a Bicentennial commemorative plaque.[24]

Select filmography

References

  1. ^ a b "Please, Mr. Policeman, May I Make a Movie? For "Everyones" by Franklyn Barrett.", Everyones., Sydney: Everyones Ltd, 10 December 1930, nla.obj-564399119, retrieved 20 April 2024 – via Trove
  2. ^ Graham Shirley and Brian Adams, Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years, Currency Press 1989 p 39
  3. ^ a b "PARAMOUNT PICTURES". The Mercury. Hobart, Tas.: National Library of Australia. 15 March 1927. p. 5. Retrieved 24 April 2012.
  4. ^ a b c d Barrett, Franlyn (11 December 1929), "When a Man Could Live On Australian Films.", Everyones, Sydney: Everyones Ltd, nla.obj-577283355, retrieved 17 August 2024 – via Trove
  5. ^ Barrett, Franklyn (14 December 1932), "Turn Buck the Universe and Talk of Yesterday For "Everyones"", Everyones, Sydney: Everyones Ltd, nla.obj-585209817, retrieved 17 August 2024 – via Trove
  6. ^ "A MAKER OF FILMS". The Barrier Miner. Broken Hill, NSW: National Library of Australia. 20 March 1908. p. 3. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  7. ^ "THEATRICAL". Referee. No. 1222. New South Wales, Australia. 6 April 1910. p. 15. Retrieved 16 August 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ^ "THEATRICAL". Referee. No. 1210. New South Wales, Australia. 12 January 1910. p. 15. Retrieved 16 August 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ^ a b c d e Rutledge, Martha (1979). "Walter Franklyn Barrett (1873–1964)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. 7. Melbourne University Press.
  10. ^ "BIOSCOPE PHOTOGRAPH STUDIO". The Sun. No. 345. New South Wales, Australia. 7 August 1911. p. 10 (LATEST EDITION). Retrieved 16 August 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. ^ "Theatrical Gossip". The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People. Vol. 14, no. 50. New South Wales, Australia. 26 August 1911. p. 3. Retrieved 16 August 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  12. ^ "THE GLACIARIUM". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 23, 048. New South Wales, Australia. 25 November 1911. p. 19. Retrieved 16 August 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  13. ^ "FOR LOVE AND LUCRE". The Sun. No. 401. New South Wales, Australia. 11 October 1911. p. 1 (FINAL EXTRA). Retrieved 16 August 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  14. ^ "FACING DEATH". The World's News. No. 514. New South Wales, Australia. 21 October 1911. p. 12. Retrieved 16 August 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  15. ^ "PICTURE SHOWS". Evening News. No. 13, 852. New South Wales, Australia. 31 October 1911. p. 3. Retrieved 16 August 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  16. ^ "AT POVERTY POINT.", The Bulletin, Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 11 December 1913, nla.obj-686377601, retrieved 16 August 2024 – via Trove
  17. ^ "AT POVERTY POINT.", The Bulletin, Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 30 December 1915, nla.obj-678992775, retrieved 16 August 2024 – via Trove
  18. ^ "OLDEST MOVIE MAN". The Canberra Times. National Library of Australia. 15 November 1927. p. 1. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  19. ^ "PICTURE FILMS". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 27, 179. New South Wales, Australia. 13 February 1925. p. 10. Retrieved 16 August 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  20. ^ "AUSTRALIAN-MADE PICTURES". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 27, 201. New South Wales, Australia. 11 March 1925. p. 19. Retrieved 16 August 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  21. ^ "Australian Film Industry". The Evening News. No. 875. Queensland, Australia. 23 May 1925. p. 6. Retrieved 16 August 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  22. ^ "Showmen's Corner • • • •", Everyones., Sydney: Everyones Ltd, 29 July 1936, nla.obj-570472530, retrieved 16 August 2024 – via Trove
  23. ^ Gordon Moyes, 'Todds Barrett', Gordonmoyes.com, National Library of Australia, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 accessed 10 May 2012
  24. ^ 'Plaque 23', Randwick City Council Archived 29 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine accessed 10 May 2012
  25. ^ a b c d "Film History: Where Wellington Stands". Dominion. No. 116. Papers Past. 10 February 1927. p. 15. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
  26. ^ "PRODUCTION OF MOVING PICTURES-- IN AMERICA AND AUSTRALIA". Australian Town and Country Journal. Vol. XCVIII, no. 2555. New South Wales, Australia. 18 December 1918. p. 20. Retrieved 21 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  27. ^ "GLACIARIUM—WEST'S PICTURES". Sunday Times. No. 1357. New South Wales, Australia. 24 December 1911. p. 2. Retrieved 16 August 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  28. ^ "WESTS PICTURES". The Daily Telegraph. No. 10218. New South Wales, Australia. 24 February 1912. p. 11. Retrieved 16 August 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  29. ^ "A FEW STARS AND SCENES FROM PICTURE SCREENS". The Mirror of Australia. No. 80. New South Wales, Australia. 20 January 1917. p. 12. Retrieved 16 August 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  30. ^ "Making Local Films". The Sunday Times. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 11 November 1917. p. 25. Retrieved 10 December 2014.

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