One Hundred Years Ago

One Hundred Years Ago
Directed by Gaston Mervale
Written by P. W. Marony
Starring Louise Carbasse
Production
company
Release dates
8 May 1911
Running time
2,000 feet[1]
Country Australia
Language Silent film
English intertitles

One Hundred Years Ago is a 1911 Australian silent film directed by Gaston Mervale. It features an early screen performance from Louise Lovely (billed as "Louise Carbasse") and is considered a lost film.

Plot

The movie was billed as "an Anglo-Australian romantic drama".[2] Jasper Hugh Lovel is sent to prison at Norfolk Island for a crime he did not commit. A woman in England who loves him manages to secure his pardon and they are reunited.[3]

Cast

Production

The film was shot at Australian Life Biograph's factory in Manly, New South Wales.[4] Unlike many Australian films of the time, it was an original script, not based on a play. The author was Patrick William Marony.

The story is founded on fact. In an old cell at Norfolk Island may be seen the following inscription: "I, Jasper Hugh Lovel, here proclaim, before God and man, I am innocent. May God avenge me on mine enemy."[5]

References

  1. Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p19
  2. "Advertising.". The Sydney Morning Herald (National Library of Australia). 9 May 1911. p. 2. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
  3. "Advertising.". The Sydney Morning Herald (National Library of Australia). 13 May 1911. p. 2. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
  4. "MLLE ANTONIA DOLORES.". The Sydney Morning Herald (National Library of Australia). 13 May 1911. p. 14. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
  5. "Advertising.". The Sydney Morning Herald (National Library of Australia). 13 May 1911. p. 2. Retrieved 26 April 2014.

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