Taking his Chance
1914 Australian film
- 1914 (1914)
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
- ^ "Raymond Longford", Cinema Papers, January 1974 p51
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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
- ^ Eric Reade, History and heartburn: the saga of Australian film, 1896-1978, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1979 p13
External links
- Taking his Chance at IMDb
- Full text of poem
- Taking his Chance at AustLit
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Films directed by Raymond Longford
- The Fatal Wedding (1911)
- The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole (1911)
- Sweet Nell of Old Drury (1911)
- The Tide of Death (1912)
- The Midnight Wedding (1912)
- Australia Calls (1913)
- Pommy Arrives in Australia (1913)
- 'Neath Austral Skies (1913)
- The Silence of Dean Maitland (1914)
- The Swagman's Story (1914)
- Taking his Chance (1914) (short)
- Trooper Campbell (1914) (short)
- We'll Take Her Children in Amongst Our Own (1915) (short)
- Ma Hogan's New Boarder (1915) (short)
- The Mutiny of the Bounty (1916)
- A Maori Maid's Love (1916)
- The Church and the Woman (1917)
- The Woman Suffers (1918)
- The Sentimental Bloke (1919)
- On Our Selection (1920)
- Ginger Mick (1920)
- Rudd's New Selection (1921)
- The Blue Mountains Mystery (1921)
- The Dinkum Bloke (1923)
- Australia Calls (1923)
- An Australian by Marriage (1923)
- Fisher's Ghost (1924)
- The Bushwhackers (1925)
- Peter Vernon's Silence (1926)
- The Pioneers (1926)
- Sunrise (1926)
- Hills of Hate (1926)
- The Hayseeds (1933) (asst director)
- Splendid Fellows (1934) (asst director)
- The Man They Could Not Hang (1934)
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