Austral Photoplay Company
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The Austral Photoplay Company was a short lived Australian production and distribution company. It was established in Melbourne in 1913 by A. C. Tinsdale and later transferred to Sydney in 1917.[1] It initially sought to raise £10,000 to make a film about the goldfields.[2]
It raised funds to make movies via public subscription; people would pay for the right to appear in the film. They later purchased the negatives of films made by the Australian Film Syndicate in 1911–12.[3][4]
In 1917 Tinsdale shot footage for a feature in Ballarat called Women and Gold which was never completed.[3]
The company was still trying to raise funds in 1919[5] and also later in 1920, under another name.[6]
