Trooper Campbell (1914)
- Directed by
- Raymond Longford
- Genre
- silent film
- Country
- Australia
- Runtime
- 15 min
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A silent film from 1914 based on a poem by Henry Lawson. It shows visual images that accompany a live recital of the poem. The film was lost for decades before being rediscovered.
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What happens
Trooper Campbell is a 1914 film from director Raymond Longford based on a poem by Henry Lawson. The movie is one of Longford's more obscure works. There is some reference to it being made but none of it being released in cinemas. The movie consisted of visual images to accompany an in-person recital of the poem. It was considered a lost film but was discovered in the 1980s. Film writers Graham Shirley and Brian Adams stated that the film: Shows an advance on The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole, not so much in performance, which is still haunted by melodrama, as in the use of depth of field and positioning within the frame... [It] appears to have been hurriedly made (it was never listed among Longford's major achievements) and displays nowhere near the polish of Alfred Rolfe's The Hero of the Dardanelles, completed halfway through the next year. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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While the Billy Boils (1921)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.