The Breaking of the Drought (1920)

Directed by

Franklyn Barrett

Genre

silent film

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 27m

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 6 voters

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.

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How it feels

This is an Australian silent film from 1920. It tells a story set during a drought, where a family faces hardship and personal conflicts.

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What happens

The Breaking of the Drought is a 1920 Australian silent film from director Franklyn Barrett based on the popular play by Bland Holt and Arthur Shirley. According to Graham Phillips, this film is one of the most damaged in Australia's film archive, although few sequences have severe damage. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.