A survey of the role of women in Australian cinema from the beginning to 1940 using interviews and archival footage. Prominence is given to the collaboration between Lottie Lyell and Raymond Longford, the McDonagh sisters (whose 1933 production Two Minutes Silence was the last Australian feature directed by a woman until My Brilliant Career in 1979) and the careers of actresses Louise Lovely, Helen Twelvetrees and Shirley Ann Richards. Includes extracts from “A Girl of the Bush” (1921), “The Cheaters” (1929), “The Squatter’s Daughter” (1933), “The Silence of Dean Maitland” (1937) and “Dad and Dave Come To Town” (1938).
Content notification
Our collection comprises over 40,000 moving image works, acquired and catalogued between the 1940s and early 2000s. As a result, some items may reflect outdated, offensive and possibly harmful views and opinions. ACMI is working to identify and redress such usages.
Learn more about our collection and our collection policy here. If you come across harmful content on our website that you would like to report, let us know.
How to watch
Collection
In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
016935
Language
English
Audience classification
G
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Longford, Raymond
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Lovely, Louise
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Lyell, Lottie
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → McDonagh, Paulette
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → McDonagh, Phyllis
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion picture industry - Australia
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion pictures - Australia - History
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion pictures - Excerpts
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Richards, Shirley Ann
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Twelvetree, Helen
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Women in the motion picture industry
Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels
Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels → Interviews
Documentary → Documentary films - Australia
Feature films → Feature films - Australia
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)