The Hayseeds' Back-blocks Show

The Hayseeds' Back-blocks Show
Directed by Beaumont Smith
Produced by Beaumont Smith
Written by Beaumont Smith
Starring Tal Ordell
Fred MacDonald
Cinematography A.O. Segerberg
Production
company
Beaumont Smith Productions
Release dates
5 November 1917[1]
Running time
4,000 feet
Country Australia
Language Silent

The Hayseeds' Back-blocks Show is a 1917 Australian rural comedy from director Beaumont Smith. It was the third in his series about the rural family, the Hayseeds.

It is considered a lost film.

Synopsis

Dad Hayseed and his friends from Stoney Creek, including Dad Duggan, Cousin Harold, Sam, Tom, Poppy, Molly, Peter, Hopkins and M'Arthur, decide to hold an agricultural show. They go to Brisbane to ask the Governor of Queensland to open it and he agrees. They form a brass band to play, and the show is a great success.[2]

Cast

Production

Like the first two Hayseed movies, Beaumont Smith used local appeal to make them attractive to audiences. This one was shot around Brisbane.[3] It was followed by The Hayseeds' Melbourne Cup.

References

  1. Ross Cooper,"Filmography: Beaumont Smith", Cinema Papers, March-April 1976 p333
  2. "THE HAYSEEDS' BACKBLOCK SHOW." The Advertiser (Adelaide) 1 Nov 1919: 11
  3. Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 73.

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