Breaking the News (1912 film)

Based onthe painting by Sir John Longstaff

Produced byWilliam Gibson
Millard Johnson
John Tait
Nevin Tait

Breaking the News
Original painting
Directed by	W. J. Lincoln^[1]
Written by	W. J. Lincoln
Based on	the painting by Sir John Longstaff
Produced by	William Gibson Millard Johnson John Tait Nevin Tait
Starring	Harrie Ireland Arthur Styan
Cinematography	Orrie Perry
Production company	Amalgamated Pictures^[2]
Release date	16 March 1912 (1912-03-16) (Melbourne)^[3] ^[2]
Running time	4,000 feet^[4]
Country	Australia
Languages	Silent film English intertitles

Breaking the News is a 1912 Australian melodrama film directed by W. J. Lincoln based on John Longstaff's 1887 painting of the same name.^[5]

It is considered a lost film.

According to Table Talk "The story deals with life in a mining centre in Australia, the play opening with the rescue of Roberts by a party of prospectors after he has been deserted by his mate, who clears off with the gold. The treacherous mate through threats and scheming eventually weds the daughter of the mine manager at whose mine lie is employed as foreman. Roberts also turns up at the mine and is employed; he is at times irresponsible and is ever threatening. The false mate decides to do away with him, and knocks him on the head when below, and in seeking a'place to bury him strikes water and floods the mine. They are both rescued, but the foreman dies, and the father breaks the news to his daughter, who is nursing her young infant. The story ends happily, for the true lovers are re-united and the mine strikes rich."^[6]^[7]

According to another listing the main scenes were:^[2]

The Never Never Land
Fight for Water
Deep Lead Calm
To Win a Wife
Above the Plains
Plighted Love
Galatea Mine
Memory of the past
Broken Hill - chambers
Stock Exchange, Melbourne
Rise in Shares
Face of the Drive
Salting the Mine
The Marshes of Sin
Face to Face
The Wedding Morn
Crib Time
At the Shaft
Roberts Disguised
Dean Fraser's Home
Terrible Danger
Down the Shaft
Murder of Roberts
The Flooded Mine
Like Rats in a Trap
Fraser's Rescue
The Flame of True Love Never Dies

Cast

Harrie Ireland^[8]
Arthur Styan

Production

The film was shot at Diamond Creek, near Melbourne.^[9]^[2]

Reception

References

↑ "Advertising". The Herald. No. 11, 354. Victoria, Australia. 23 March 1912. p. 4. Retrieved 6 June 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
1 2 3 4 "Advertising". The Age. No. 17784. Victoria, Australia. 16 March 1912. p. 20. Retrieved 6 June 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
↑ Mary Bateman, 'W. J. Lincoln', Cinema Papers, June–July 1980 p 214
↑ "GRAND EMPIRE THEATRE". Daily Post (Hobart, Tas. : 1908 - 1918). Hobart, Tas.: National Library of Australia. 6 June 1912. p. 7. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
↑ "ACADEMY OF MUSIC". The Examiner. Launceston, Tas.: National Library of Australia. 29 May 1912. p. 6 Edition: DAILY. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
↑ "ST. KILDA THEATRE". Table Talk. Victoria, Australia. 28 March 1912. p. 21. Retrieved 6 June 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
↑ "St. Kilda Theatre". The Prahran Telegraph. Vol. 50, no. 2632. Victoria, Australia. 30 March 1912. p. 6. Retrieved 6 June 2024 – via National Library of Australia. - another synopsis
↑ "GRAND EMPIRE THEATRE". The Mercury. Hobart, Tas.: National Library of Australia. 7 June 1912. p. 3. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
↑ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p32
↑ Graham Shirley and Brian Adams, Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years, Currency Press, 1989, p42
↑ "THE GLACIARIUM". The Herald. No. 11, 349. Victoria, Australia. 18 March 1912. p. 7. Retrieved 6 June 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
↑ "Advertising". The Age. No. 17790. Victoria, Australia. 23 March 1912. p. 20. Retrieved 6 June 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
↑ "SUNDRY SHOWS". The Bulletin. 28 March 1912. p. 11.
↑ "THE PLAYGOER". Punch. Vol. CXVI, no. 2956. Victoria, Australia. 21 March 1912. p. 37. Retrieved 6 June 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
↑ "WEST'S PALACE". The Age. No. 17785. Victoria, Australia. 18 March 1912. p. 8. Retrieved 21 July 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
↑ "AMUSEMENTS". The Examiner (Tasmania). Vol. LXXI, no. 131. Tasmania, Australia. 1 June 1912. p. 9 (DAILY). Retrieved 6 June 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
↑ "Outward-looking Australian cinema", Benjamin Goldsmith. Studies in Australasian Cinema (2010)

v t e The works of W. J. Lincoln
Films as director	It Is Never Too Late to Mend (1911) The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1911) The Luck of Roaring Camp (1911) Called Back (1911) The Lost Chord (1911) The Bells (1911) The Double Event (1911) After Sundown (lost, c. 1911) Breaking the News (1912) Rip Van Winkle (1912) The Sick Stockrider (1913) Moondyne (1913) The Remittance Man (1913) Transported (1913) The Road to Ruin (1913) The Crisis (1913) The Reprieve (1913) The Wreck (1913) The Life's Romance of Adam Lindsay Gordon (1916) Nurse Cavell (1916) La Revanche (1916)
Films as writer only	Moonlite (1910) Captain Midnight, the Bush King (1911) Within Our Gates (1915) Within the Law (1916) Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1916) Officer 666 (1916)
Plays as writer	The Bush King (1893) The Power of Wealth (1900)

Breaking the News (1912 film)

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Reception

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