One Hundred Years Ago
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{{Infobox film
| name = One Hundred Years Ago
| image = One_Hundred_Years_Ago.png
| caption = SMH 13 May 1911
| director = Gaston Mervale
| producer =
| writer = P. W. Marony
| narrator =
| starring = Louise Carbasse
| music =
| cinematography =
| editing =
| studio = Australian Life Biograph Company
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|1911|05|08|df=yes}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15238256 |title=Advertising |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=22,875 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=8 May 1911 |accessdate=3 June 2024 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}
| runtime = 2,000 feetAndrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p19
| country = Australia
| language = Silent film
English intertitles
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One Hundred Years Ago is a 1911 Australian silent film directed by Gaston Mervale. It features an early screen performance from Louise Lovely (billed as "Louise Carbasse") and is considered a lost film.
Plot
The movie was billed as "an Anglo-Australian romantic drama".{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15221012 |title=Advertising. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=9 May 1911 |access-date=26 January 2012 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} Jasper Hugh Lovel is sent to prison at Norfolk Island for a crime he did not commit. A woman in England who loves him manages to secure his pardon and they are reunited.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15249639 |title=Advertising. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=13 May 1911 |access-date=26 January 2012 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}
Cast
- Louise Carbasse as Judith (in love with Lovel)
- Harrie Ireland as Katharine (a burglar's wife)
- A.J. Patrick as Lovel (a young squire)
- Godfrey Cass as Captain Ridd (his rival)
- Alf Scarlett as an Old Jew (a receiver of stolen goods)
- James Martin as a magistrate
- Harry Beaumont as a Burglar
Production
The film was shot at Australian Life Biograph's factory in Manly, New South Wales.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15249741 |title=MLLE ANTONIA DOLORES. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=13 May 1911 |access-date=25 January 2012 |page=14 |via=National Library of Australia}}
Unlike many Australian films of the time, it was an original script, not based on a play. The author was Patrick William Marony.
The story is founded on fact. In an old cell at Norfolk Island may be seen the following inscription: "I, Jasper Hugh Lovel, here proclaim, before God and man, I am innocent. May God avenge me on mine enemy."{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15249639 |title=Advertising. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=13 May 1911 |access-date=26 April 2014 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}
Reception
The Launceston Daily Telegraph called it:
{{blockquote|One of those costume playlets, which require a deal of patience, knowledge of the
period, and considerable skill to produce. In Mr. Mervalc all these, factors are embraced, and his work is stamped on every foot of the thousands offeet of film... Attention to tho dressing, atmosphere of the early period, and mise en scene, has been minute, iuid the results presented with clarity.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article152360294 |title="100 YEARS AGO," AT LYCEUM. |newspaper=Daily Telegraph |volume=XXXI |issue=143 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=17 June 1911 |accessdate=3 June 2024 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0344145}}
- [http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=one%20hundred%20years%20ago;querytype=;rec=6;resCount=10 One Hundred Years Ago] at National Film and Sound Archive
Category:1910s Australian films
Category:1910s English-language films
Category:Australian black-and-white films
Category:Australian drama short films
Category:Australian silent short films
Category:English-language drama short films
Category:Films directed by Gaston Mervale
Category:Lost Australian drama films
Category:Silent Australian drama films
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