Eureka Gold Fever

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Screening Details


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The Buninyong Film Festival will screen a special series of films in 2004,
to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Eureka Rebellion.

Date: Friday 16 July, 7:00 pm

Venue: Buninyong Town Hall

Screening times:

6.45 pm    Musical Interlude with Phil Cockerill
7 pm
 
    Screening One
Guest Speaker: Historian, Anne Beggs-Sunter,
who will discuss the events leading up to the Eureka Stockade
7.15     "The Eureka Stockade", UK/Australia, 1949, 103 mins
9 pm     Supper
9.45
 
    Screening Two
"Menace", Australia, 1952, 9 minutes
9.55     Silent goldrush classic with live piano accompaniment

Bookings:

Eureka Gold Fever Film Festival
BOOKING FORM
Tickets: $10 for Screenings One & Two & Supper

Prepaid bookings are essential as seats are limited.
To book, please print out this section and post the completed form below along with a cheque made payable to BUNINY0NG FILM FESTIVAL and a stamped, self-addressed envelope for delivery of your tickets.

 
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Post your form, cheque & envelope to:

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NOTE for LATE BOOKINGS: Bookings received after July 9 will be held at the door. Please phone Liz on 03 5341 3335 to confirm late bookings.

Screening details:

The Eureka Stockade

1948 103 minutes, black & white.

British version of the gold miners revolt made by Ealing Studios' Leslie Norman. Stars Chips Rafferty & Peter Finch.

Director: Harry Watt
Producer: Michael Balcon
Associate Producer: Leslie Norman
Script: Harry Watt and Walter Greenwood
Cinematography: George Heath
Art Direction: Charles Woolveridge
Editing: Leslie Norman
Music: John Greenwood

Cast

Chips Rafferty - Peter Lalor
Jane Barrett - Alicia Dunne
Jack Lambert - Commissioner Rede
Peter Illing - Raffaello
Gordon Jackson - Tom Kennedy
Ralph Truman - Governor Hotham
Sydney Loder - Voder
Peter Finch - Humffray

Plot Synopsis

Eureka Stockade was the second film that Harry Watt made in Australia, mostly on location, but with some 20% of its scenes shot in the Ealing-controlled Pagewood Studios in Sydney. Set in the 1850s, it tells the story of the problems following the gold rush in Victoria and New South Wales. After clashes with the police the miners organise themselves under the leadership of Peter Lalor (Chips Rafferty) and engage the authorities in a full-scale battle. But public opinion stands on the side of the miners and their rights, and all the ringleaders are acquitted. Lalor is later elected Member of Parliament for the gold town of Ballarat, and marries a schoolteacher (Jane Barrett) from the goldfields. It was a major production for Australia, with some seventy speaking parts and several hundred extras, most of whom were recruited from the army, with official blessing.

Bad weather and primitive working conditions combined to make it a difficult operation, and many of the unit had not worked on a feature film before. An elaborate set of Ballarat in the 18509 with a main street and miners' tents surrounding it was blown down twice. Eureka Stockade is an average feature of its kind, making up in sincerity for what it lacks in polish when compared with the treatment Hollywood might have given the subject. But it did not spell the end of the Australian venture for Ealing, in spite of the considerable difficulties that were placed in the way.
Extract George Perry: Forever Ealing.

http://www.britmovie.co.uk/studios/ealing/filmography/51.html

   

MENACE

1952
Documentary

Production Company - Australian News and Information Bureau, Film Division

Anti-communist propaganda film tracing the history of communist conquest in Eastern Europe and Asia after the Second World War. The film, a fictional dramatisation presented in the form of a newsreel, enunciates the harsh conditions experienced by people under communist rule, and warns of the threat that communism poses for democracy in other countries, including Australia.

www.screensound.gov.au/ pdf/collectionguide_thecoldwar.pdf

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