Ma Hogan's New Boarder

Ma Hogan's New Boarder
Directed byRaymond Longford
Written byRaymond Longford
Based onstory by A. Wright[2][3]
Produced byArchie Fraser
Colin Fraser
StarringCharles Evans
Pearl Bambury[4]
Production
company
Release date
  • 1 July 1915 (1915-07-01)[1]
Running time
2,500 feet[5]
CountryAustralia
LanguagesSilent film
English intertitles

Ma Hogan's New Boarder was a 1915 film directed by Raymond Longford starring Charlie Chaplin impersonator Charles Evans.[6] In the movie the lead "displays his antics and mannerisms."[7]

It was one of Longford's few films not to feature Lottie Lyell and is considered a lost film.[8]

Cast

  • C. Evans
  • B Gilbert
  • Q Cross
  • E. Vockler

Reception

Theatre managers offered to "supply cotton and buttons free to all patrons who damage them" during screenings of the film."[9]

The Motion Picture News said that Charles Evans "gave a really clever impersonation of Charles Chaplin" but that "the production was too long to be anything more than ordinary."[10]

References

  1. ^ "Advertising". The Evening News. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 29 June 1915. p. 8. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
  2. ^ "Raymond Longford", Cinema Papers, January 1974 p51
  3. ^ "Bound printed copy of Minutes of Evidence of the Royal Commission on the Moving Picture Industry in Australia (one of two copies)". National Archives of Australia. NAA: A11636, 4/1. p. 145.
  4. ^ "AMUSEMENT". The Tamworth Daily Observer. NSW: National Library of Australia. 10 August 1915. p. 3. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
  5. ^ "Advertising". The Tamworth Daily Observer. NSW: National Library of Australia. 10 August 1915. p. 3. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
  6. ^ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 51
  7. ^ "AUSTRALIAN CHAPLAIN". The Sunday Times. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 27 June 1915. p. 16. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
  8. ^ Eric Reade, History and heartburn: the saga of Australian film, 1896-1978, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1979 p13
  9. ^ "Advertising". The Sunday Times. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 27 June 1915. p. 6. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
  10. ^ "Film News from Foreign Parts", Motion Picture News 11 March 1916, retrieved 23 November 1916
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