The Maids Room 2013The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole. Raymond Longford. Raymond Longford was a prolific Australian film director, writer, producer and actor during the silent era. Longford was a director of the silent film era of the Australian cinema. He formed a team with Lottie Lyell. John Walter Hollis Longford was born in Hawthorn, a suburb of Melbourne, son of John Walter Longford, a civil servant originally from Sydney and his family soon started referring to him as Ray. By 1. 88. 0 they briefly moved to Paynesville, then went to Sydney when Longfords father became a warder at Darlinghurst Gaol, Longford became a sailor and spent his early life at sea. View all articles on this page Previous article Next article. Why are there text errors Observer Melbourne Observer Melbourne ISSN 1447 4611 Observer Melbourne ROYAL WEDDING PREVIEW Page 8 FOOTY WEEK LATEST Page 66 36PAGE MELBOURNE TRADER LIFT. Hoyts furniture for. What was once a maids room is now a fully functioning. 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Longford often appeared alongside a young actress called Lottie Lyell, who would become Longfords key creative partner and he was an early member of the Australian actors union, a forerunner to actors equity. In 1. 90. 7 Longford worked on a film produced by Charles Cozens Spencer about the fight between Tommy Burns and Jack Johnson, probably the first movie Longford was involved in. He then began appearing in movies for Spencer as an actor under the direction of Alfred Rolfe such as Captain Midnight, made quickly, with a limited budget and small crew, it was a major financial success and launched his career behind the camera. Lyell appeared in most of these and also increasingly important contributions behind the scene as a writer, editor, producer. Charles Cozens Spencer eventually withdrew from Australian film production due to the formation of the Combine and this left Longford without his main backer and he found it increasingly difficult to secure funding for a time. Longford had an operation in March 1. He then made two films in New Zealand and also became embroiled in legal battle over The Church. In September 1. 91. Crick and Jones preparing scenarios, Longfords career revived towards the end of World War I when he helped establish the Southern Cross Feature Film Company in South Australia. He enjoyed a large box office success with The Woman Suffers which enabled him to get finance for an adaptation of the poetry of C. J. Dennis, The Sentimental Bloke. This was a critical and popular success, and is regarded as one of the greatest Australian films of all time. Longford followed it with another hit, On Our Selection, from the stories of Steele Rudd, the popularity of these two movies saw Longford move away from melodramatic convention to more realistic treatment of subject matter. Richard Cobbold. Richard Cobbold was a British writer. Richard Cobbold was born in 1. Suffolk town of Ipswich, to John, the Cobbolds were a large and affluent family who made their money from the brewing industry. Their name lives on in Ipswich in the firm of Tolly Cobbold, educated at Caius College, Cambridge, Cobbold entered the church, starting at St Mary Le Tower in Ipswich before moving to Wortham in 1. He remained there until his death on 5 January 1. But Cobbold did not make money by his other literary ventures. Thus his account of Mary Ann Wellington brought in no less than 6. Watch Circulation Full Movie on this page. Jeptha Waller, by whom he had three sons. One of the sons, Edward Augustus, became vicar of the parish of Yaxley, and another Thomas Spencer. During his time at Wortham, more significantly, he recorded the lives of his various parishioners. His four volumes eventually found a home at the Suffolk Record Office, in 1. The Biography of a Victorian Village was published, in which Ronald Fletcher presents Richard Cobbolds account of 1. Wortham. H. Krieger, which formed the basis for the film The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole Attribution This article incorporates text from a now in the public domain, Watkins. London, Smith, Elder Co. Lottie Lyell was an Australian actress, screenwriter, editor and filmmaker. She is regarded as Australias first film star, and also contributed to the industry during the silent era with her collaborations with Raymond Longford. She was born in Balmain, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales in 1. Lyell had become romantically involved with Longford. The couple lived together in Brisbane and formed the most influential, although Longford was separated, his Catholic wife would not divorce him and he was never able to marry Lyell. Lyell fell ill with tuberculosis and died at her home in Roseville, charlotte Cox started her acting career at the age of 1. She took the name of Lottie Lyell, and in 1. The travelling theatre company took Lyell on tour for the show and she performed across Australia, including Tasmania, after visiting 8. Murtoa, Victoria. Lyells later theatre successes continued when she joined the Clark and Meynell Company, the following year, Lyell exchanged live theatre for a new, modern medium film. The British magazine Punch wrote of the film, This big film is the best that has made in Australia. Lyell and Longford formed the most influential and pioneering partnerships in Australian film history, in 1. Lyell starred in Neath Austral Skies as Eileen Delmont. Notably in this role she performed her own stunts, which included riding a horse with a knife between her teeth and diving into the sea. Another LongfordLyell film made in 1. Australia Calls, contained some special effects such as cardboard planes flying down wires, although Longford offered to film battlefronts during the Great War from 1. Australian Government declined his offer. Longford and Lyell would never make a war related feature during the First World War, in 1. Lyell portrayed Doreen in The Sentimental Bloke, which is now regarded as the landmark piece of the LongfordLyell collaborations. Lyell is believed to have contributed to the screenplay, art direction, editing. In 1. 92. 1, Lyell wrote, edited and co directed The Blue Mountains Mystery to much critical acclaim, Longford and Lyell formed Longford Lyell Australian Motion Picture Productions in 1. Lyell also returned to acting in 1. Rudds New Selection and she was active until her death in 1. Peter Vernons Silence and The Pioneers, were made into films the following year. In the early 1. 92. Lyells health declined, Lyells sister, Lynda Cox, died in September 1. Lottie Lyell died on 2. December the same year, from Tuberculosis, Australian Cinema, The First 8. Years. A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. The silent film era lasted from 1. During silent films, a pianist, theatre organist, or, in large cities, pianists and organists would either play from sheet music or improvise, an orchestra would play from sheet music. The term silent film is therefore a retronymthat is, a term created to distinguish something retroactively, the early films with sound, starting with The Jazz Singer in 1. A September 2. 01. United States Library of Congress announced that a total of 7. American silent feature films are believed to be completely lost, the earliest precursors of film began with image projection through the use of a device known as the magic lantern. This utilized a glass lens, a shutter and a persistent light source, such as a powerful lantern and these slides were originally hand painted, but still photographs were used later on after the technological advent of photography in the nineteenth century. The invention of a practical photography apparatus preceded cinema by only fifty years, the next significant step towards film creation was the development of an understanding of image movement. Simulations of movement date as far back as to 1. Paul Roget discovered the phenomenon he called Persistence of Vision. This experience was further demonstrated through Rogets introduction of the thaumatrope, the first projected primary proto movie was made by Eadweard Muybridge between 1.