The Day | |
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![]() Sydney Morning Herald 6 November 1914 | |
Directed by | Alfred Rolfe [1] |
Written by | Johnson Weir |
Based on | poem by Henry Chappell |
Produced by | Archie Fraser Colin Fraser |
Production company | |
Release date | |
Country | Australia |
Languages |
Silent film English intertitles |
The Day is a 1914 Australian silent film directed by Alfred Rolfe. [3] It is a propaganda film about German brutality in Europe during World War I. It is considered a lost film. [4]
Archie Fraser, who produced, called it "Der Tag, a little one-act scene, to be played whilst the celebrated poem by the English railway porter on The Day was being recited." [5]
The Fraser brothers were two distributors and exhibitors who occasionally dabbled in production. They had just made a number of films with Raymond Longford but he had left and Alfred Rolfe became their in-house director instead.
The script was adapted from a popular poem by railway porter Henry Chappell. The screenplay was written by actor Johnson Weir. Weir would recite the poem during screenings. [4]
Actor Jame Martin played a Belgian civilian attacked by two German soldiers. During filming he was struck by a bayonet and had to be treated at St Vincents Hospital. [6]
The Referee wrote that the film " is a theme patriotic from opening to end, and it promises to prove a crowded house magnet." [7]
The Day | |
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![]() Sydney Morning Herald 6 November 1914 | |
Directed by | Alfred Rolfe [1] |
Written by | Johnson Weir |
Based on | poem by Henry Chappell |
Produced by | Archie Fraser Colin Fraser |
Production company | |
Release date | |
Country | Australia |
Languages |
Silent film English intertitles |
The Day is a 1914 Australian silent film directed by Alfred Rolfe. [3] It is a propaganda film about German brutality in Europe during World War I. It is considered a lost film. [4]
Archie Fraser, who produced, called it "Der Tag, a little one-act scene, to be played whilst the celebrated poem by the English railway porter on The Day was being recited." [5]
The Fraser brothers were two distributors and exhibitors who occasionally dabbled in production. They had just made a number of films with Raymond Longford but he had left and Alfred Rolfe became their in-house director instead.
The script was adapted from a popular poem by railway porter Henry Chappell. The screenplay was written by actor Johnson Weir. Weir would recite the poem during screenings. [4]
Actor Jame Martin played a Belgian civilian attacked by two German soldiers. During filming he was struck by a bayonet and had to be treated at St Vincents Hospital. [6]
The Referee wrote that the film " is a theme patriotic from opening to end, and it promises to prove a crowded house magnet." [7]