Argosy Films

The company was registered in 1937 with capital of £50,000. The subscribers were Frederick Daniel, George B. Bennett, Ronald H. Wolff, Cecil V. Stevenson, Noel Monkman, Harold L. Gray, and Joseph A. Byron.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27988663 |title=COMPANY NEWS. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=5 January 1937 |accessdate=16 February 2012 |page=13 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} The general manager was Frederick Daniell.

In 1940 it was announced they would make two feature films,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article29889082 |title=COMPANIES' PLANS. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=3 January 1940 |accessdate=16 February 2012 |page=11 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} with 60% of the cost to be guaranteed by the New South Wales government.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article29889083 |title=FOUR LOCAL FILMS. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=3 January 1940 |accessdate=16 February 2012 |page=11 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} The two films were to be Daughters of Australia, budgeted at £12,500, and Man Without a Country, at a cost of £12,500 (these were later re-titled That Certain Something (1941) and The Power and the Glory (1941) respectively).{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17647149 |title=FOUR LOCAL FILMS. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=13 March 1940 |accessdate=16 February 2012 |page=13 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

Plans for further production – including a version of the Stingaree stories{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article141193178 |title=Film Plan For Australia. |newspaper=Barrier Daily Truth |location=Broken Hill, NSW |date=3 July 1948 |accessdate=23 November 2014 |page=1 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} – did not come to fruition and the company was liquidated in 1948.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18055890 |title=Advertising. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=1 January 1948 |accessdate=19 February 2012 |page=7 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

Argosy is not to be confused with the British film company of the same name.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38520231 |title=THE NEWS REEL. |newspaper=Western Mail |location=Perth |date=29 May 1930 |accessdate=16 February 2012 |page=7 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

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