Taking his Chance

Taking his Chance
Directed byRaymond Longford
Written byRaymond Longford
Based onpoem by Henry Lawson
StarringLottie Lyell
CinematographyHiggins brothers
Production
company
Higgins-Longford Films[1]
Release date
  • 1914 (1914)
CountryAustralia
LanguagesSilent film
English intertitles

Taking his Chance is a 1914 film from director Raymond Longford based on a poem by Henry Lawson.[2] It was one of two short films Longford made from poems by Lawson, the other being Trooper Campbell.[3]

It is considered a lost film.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Raymond Longford", Cinema Papers, January 1974 p51
  2. ^ "THE GIRL AND THE BUSHRANGER". The Farmer and Settler (Sydney, NSW : 1906 – 1957). Sydney, NSW. 19 May 1914. p. 7. Retrieved 1 July 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "Story of g Lost Industry Australia Once Made Films", The Bulletin, 79 (4096), 13 August 1958, nla.obj-702805906, retrieved 7 January 2024 – via Trove
  4. ^ Eric Reade, History and heartburn: the saga of Australian film, 1896-1978, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1979 p13


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