Английская Википедия:A Maori Maid's Love
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A Maori Maid's Love (Originally titled The Surveyor's Daughter) is a 1916 Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford about an interracial romance between a white man and a Māori girl. It is considered a lost film as there are no known copies.[1]
Plot
Graham, an unhappily married surveyor, goes on a job to New Zealand where he falls in love with a Maori woman. She becomes pregnant and dies in childbirth. Graham puts his daughter in the care of Maori Jack, who later kills Graham. However his daughter (Lottie Lyell) inherits his property and falls in love with a jackeroo called Jim.[2]
Cast
- Lottie Lyell
- Raymond Longford
- Kenneth Carlisle
- Rawdon Blandford
Production
The film was shot on location in Rotorua and Auckland from August 1915, with finance from a Sydney company, Vita Film Corporation. It was the first of two films Longford and Lyell made in New Zealand, the other being The Mutiny of the Bounty (1916).[3]
Release
Distribution difficulties
Longford was unable to secure a release for the film in New Zealand. He blamed this on the influence of "the Combine" of Australasian Films and Union Theatres, who dominated distribution and exhibition at the time.[4] The film was given a limited release in Sydney at a cinema owned by Hubert and Caroline Pugliese.[5]
Critical reception
The critic from the Sydney Sun called it "unquestionably the best moving picture produced up to date at this end of the world... there would be little need for importing films while Australia can make her own of such a standard."[6]
The Motion Picture News said the film "certainly could not be classed as a masterpiece. Reduced to three reels it would make a good, pleasing feature. The subtitles in their present state are crude and need revision. Director Raymond Longford had a hard task when he posed the Maori maids before the camera and deserves credit for the results obtained."[7]
Lottie Lyell edited the film for its British release.[8]
Significance
The movie is generally agreed to be the first full-length New Zealand feature film.[9][10]
References
External links
- ↑ 'New Zealand's Missing Film History' at The Film Archive Шаблон:Webarchive
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
- ↑ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 57
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
- ↑ Crowley, Bill, 'Pugliese, Caroline Frances (1865–1940)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, accessed 7 January 2012.
- ↑ LOCAL AND GENERAL. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8366, 5 February 1916, Page 4, accessed 11 September 2013
- ↑ "Film News from Foreign Parts", Motion Picture News 11 March 1916 accessed 23 November 1916
- ↑ Lottie Lyell at AustLit
- ↑ Helen Martin and Sam Edwards, New Zealand Film: 1912–1996, Oxford Uni Press, 1997 p 25
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
- Английская Википедия
- 1910s New Zealand films
- 1916 films
- Australian drama films
- New Zealand drama films
- Australian silent feature films
- Australian black-and-white films
- Films about interracial romance
- Films directed by Raymond Longford
- Films set in New Zealand
- Films shot in New Zealand
- Lost Australian films
- 1916 drama films
- Lost New Zealand films
- 1916 lost films
- Lost drama films
- Films about Māori people
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