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The Pioneers (1926)

The Pioneers poster
Directed by
Raymond Longford
Genre
silent film
Country
Australia
Runtime
5 min
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The film follows early settlers in the Australian outback. It focuses on their struggles to build a life in a harsh landscape.

silent-eramelancholicnostalgicslowstarksomberhistoricalfragmentary

What happens

The Pioneers is a 1926 Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford. The script had been written by Lottie Lyell but she had died by the time filming started. It was considered a lost film but some surviving footage from it has recently emerged. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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