Breaking the News

Breaking the News
Original painting
Directed by	W. J. Lincoln
Produced by	William Gibson Millard Johnson John Tait Nevin Tait
Written by	W. J. Lincoln
Based on	the painting by Sir John Longstaff
Starring	Harrie Ireland Arthur Styan
Cinematography	Orrie Perry
Production company	Amalgamated Pictures
Release dates	16 March 1912 (Melbourne)^[1]
Running time	4,000 feet^[2]
Country	Australia
Language	Silent film English intertitles

Breaking the News is a 1912 Australian melodrama film directed by W. J. Lincoln based on John Longstaff's 1887 painting of the same name.^[3]

It is considered a lost film.

Plot

A prospector looks for a wife to live with him and eventually gets married. While he is in town, the mine floods and miners need to be rescued. The main scenes were:

mining machinations;
a woman's sacrifice;
a man's desperation and love;
a father's sad mistake
man's sure revenge.^[4]

Cast

Harrie Ireland^[5]
Arthur Styan

Production

The film was shot at Diamond Creek, near Melbourne.^[6]

Reception

The movie was a popular success with critics drawing particular attention to a scene of an underground mine being flooded.^[7]

References

↑ Mary Bateman, 'W. J. Lincoln', Cinema Papers, June–July 1980 p 214
↑ "GRAND EMPIRE THEATRE.". Daily Post (Hobart, Tas. : 1908 - 1918) (Hobart, Tas.: National Library of Australia). 6 June 1912. p. 7. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
↑ "ACADEMY OF MUSIC.". The Examiner (Launceston, Tas.: National Library of Australia). 29 May 1912. p. 6 Edition: DAILY. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
↑ "Advertising.". The Mercury (Hobart, Tas.: National Library of Australia). 5 June 1912. p. 6. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
↑ "GRAND EMPIRE THEATRE.". The Mercury (Hobart, Tas.: National Library of Australia). 7 June 1912. p. 3. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
↑ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p32
↑ Graham Shirley and Brian Adams, Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years, Currency Press, 1989, p42

External links

The works of W. J. Lincoln

Films as director	It Is Never Too Late to Mend (1911) The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1911) The Luck of Roaring Camp (1911) Called Back (1911) The Lost Chord (1911) The Bells (1911) The Double Event (1911) After Sundown (lost, c. 1911) Breaking the News (1912) Rip Van Winkle (1912) The Sick Stockrider (1913) Moondyne (1913) The Remittance Man (1913) Transported (1913) The Road to Ruin (1913) The Crisis (1913) The Reprieve (1913) The Wreck (1913) The Life's Romance of Adam Lindsay Gordon (1916) Nurse Cavell (1916) La Revanche (1916)

Films as writer only	Moonlite (1910) Captain Midnight, the Bush King (1911) Within Our Gates (1915) Within the Law (1916) Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1916) Officer 666 (1916)

Plays as writer	The Bush King (1893) The Power of Wealth (1900)

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