Lincoln-Cass Films

Lincoln Cass Films was a short-lived Australian film production company.

History

Formed in July 1913, its principal filmmakers were W. J. Lincoln and Godfrey Cass and the managing director of the company was H. Dean Stewart. Charles Wheeler was stage manager and Maurice Bertel was the cinematographer. The company hired actors from Melbourne theatre along with "Australian bush riders".[1][2] It also occasionally gave live performances.[3]

Movies were made at a glass-roofed studio in Cole Street in the Melbourne suburb of Elsternwick. Locations were shot in bushland near the town of Healesville. Between July and October 1913 they made eight features of which only The Sick Stockrider survives today.[4]

The company had trouble getting its films seen throughout Australia. Dean Stewart attributed this directly to the influence of Australasian Films and their practice of enforcing block booking. For example, Lincoln Cass did not get a film seen in Sydney until The Road to Ruin (1913), and even then that was only after they set up an exchange in Sydney.[5] Their Melbourne offices were gutted by fire in 1914.[6] The company folded and their studio was sold to J.C. Williamson Ltd in 1915.[7]

Filmography

References

  1. ↑ "AUSTRALIAN-MADE FILMS.". The Argus (Melbourne: National Library of Australia). 9 August 1913. p. 21. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
  2. ↑ "NIGGER JIM.". The Mail (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 18 October 1913. p. 6 Section: SECOND SECTION. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
  3. ↑ "ARBOR DAY.". Healesville and Yarra Glen Guardian (Vic.: National Library of Australia). 8 August 1913. p. 3. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
  4. ↑ Graham Shirley and Brian Adams, Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years, Currency Press 1989 p 42
  5. ↑ "NIGGER JIM.". The Mail (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 18 October 1913. p. 6 Section: SECOND SECTION. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
  6. ↑ "EXPLOSION AND FIRE.". The Advertiser (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 16 March 1914. p. 9. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
  7. ↑ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p41

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