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{{Infobox film
| name = A Romance of the Burke and Wills Expedition of 1860
| image =
| caption =
| director = Charles Byers Coates
| producer = A.C. Tinsdale
| writer = A.C. Tinsdale<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57975030 |title=Untitled |newspaper=[[The Sunday Times (Western Australia)|Sunday Times]] |location=Perth |date=31 July 1921 |accessdate=30 April 2012 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref><br>Edmund Duggan
| narrator =
| starring = Charles Clarke
| music =
| cinematography = [[Franklyn Barrett]] <br>[[A. O. Segerberg]]<br>[[Walter Sully]]
| editing =
| studio = Antipodes Films<br>[[Austral Photoplay Company]]
| distributor = Kookaburra Films<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article146592743 |title=SCENE FROM A ROMANCE OF THE BURKE AND WILLS EXPEDITION OF 1860. |newspaper=[[Table Talk]] |issue=[?]728 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=5 September 1918 |accessdate=28 April 2024 |page=33 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref>
| released = 7 September 1918
| runtime = 6 reels<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5590438 |title=A ROMANCE OF BURKE AND WILLS. |newspaper=[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser]] |location=Adelaide |date=14 September 1918 |accessdate=30 April 2012 |page=11 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
| country = Australia
| language = [[Silent film]] <br>English intertitles
| budget = over £2,000<ref name="romance">{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57541718 |title=BURKE AND WILLS. |newspaper=[[The Register (Adelaide)|The Register]] |location=Adelaide |date=14 September 1918 |accessdate=30 April 2012 |page=10 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
| gross =
}}
'''''A Romance of the Burke and Wills Expedition of 1860''''' is a 1918 Australian [[silent film]]. The plot is fictional and is loosely based around the [[Burke and Wills expedition]].
==Plot==
[[Robert O'Hara Burke]] leads an expedition from Melbourne to the north of Australia, including [[William John Wills]], [[john King (explorer)|John King]], Gray, Dandells and Brahe. Although he reaches the [[Gulf of Carpentaria]] along with Wills and King when they return to their base at [[Cooper Creek]] they discover their comrades have left without them. Burke and Wills both die but King is rescued by aborigines and survives.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45454892 |title=BURKE AND WILLS EXPEDITION. |newspaper=[[The Barrier Miner]] |location=Broken Hill, NSW |date=24 September 1918 |accessdate=30 April 2012 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> A fictitious romance was added to the story.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article76199668 |title=Advertising. |newspaper=[[The Mirror (Western Australia)|The Mirror]] |location=Perth |date=13 August 1921 |accessdate=30 April 2012 |page=4 Section: SECOND SECTION |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
Chapter headings included:
*a love romance
*a minuet of 1857
*expedition leaves Melbourne
*scenes along the route
*customs and habits of natives
*gorgeous desert sunsets
*historic landmarks
*there is no death.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27999997 |title=Advertising. |newspaper=[[The West Australian]] |location=Perth |date=6 August 1921 |accessdate=30 April 2012 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
According to the ''Argus'' "Believing that - something was needed to lighten the tragedy of the story, the producers have introduced a certain number of fictional scenes relating to the days of preparation, and have thus brought in a love interest. There are other Melbourne
scenes' for which there is more Authority, and the old costumes give an air of quaintness. in the bush the tragic situations of the familiar record are portrayed,
and native customs are illustrated.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1442243 |title=THE PICTURES. |newspaper=[[The Argus (Melbourne)]] |issue=22,499 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=9 September 1918 |accessdate=28 April 2024 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref>
==Cast==
[[File:Romance_of_Burke.png|thumb|right|Advertiser 14 Sept 1918]]
*Charles Clarke as [[Robert O'Hara Burke]]
*George Patterson as [[William John Wills]]
*Chris Olsen as [[John King (explorer)|John King]]
*G. Gould as W. Grey
*Bias Kotes as William Brahe
*David Edelsten as Mayor of Melbourne
*Vera Chamberlain as Mina Doyle
*Ona Landers as Stella McDonald
*Madame Carbasse as Mrs Doyle
*Melville Stevenson as Dost Mahommed
*Astor Lewis as Bridget
*Yvonne Blight as maid
*Dorothy Beer and Evelyn Hooper as Mina's sisters
*Clayre St Start and Ida Hooper
==Production==
The film was completed in November 1917 and originally ran for three reels. Director Charles Coates then spent another month in central Australia shooting additional footage. Filming took over 12 months all up and involved more than 300 people. Reportedly shooting some scenes involved a risk to the cinematographer's life.<ref name="romance"/>
The cast included Madam Carbasse, the French mother of [[Louise Lovely]].
Reportedly the film was based on a script by [[Edmund Duggan (playwright)|Edmund Duggan]] using material at the Mitchell Library. The [[National Film and Sound Archive]] recently obtained a copy of this script.<ref>{{Citation
| author1=National Film and Sound Archive (Australia).
| title=APPENDIX 6: KEY ACQUISITION GEMS AND HIGHLIGHTS FOR 2008-09
| journal=Annual report
| year=2009
| issn=1837-2260
| series=Parliamentary paper (Australia. Parliament)
| issue=2008/2009, PP no. 371 of 2009
| location=Acton, A.C.T
| publisher=National Film & Sound Archive
| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1189945882
| id=nla.obj-1189945882
| access-date=22 October 2023
| via=Trove
}}</ref><ref>[https://www.antiquesreporter.com.au...expedition-of-1860-picture-drama-original-sc/ Report on script] at Antiques Reporter</ref>
==Release==
The movie was previewed to the trade in May 1918 and submitted for censorship in June 1918.<ref name="Pike">Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 82</ref>
It was released in September 1918 and screeed at J Tait's cinema in Melbourne.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article221427161 |title=Notes from the Picture Shows |newspaper=The Sun |issue=811 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=13 October 1918 |accessdate=28 April 2024 |page=21 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref>
The movie was still being screened in cinemas in Perth in the middle of 1921.<ref>{{Citation
| title=OLD FILM STILL IN BUSINESS.
| journal=Everyones.
| date=10 August 1921
| location=Sydney
| publisher=Everyones Ltd
| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-584371542
| id=nla.obj-584371542
| access-date=28 April 2024
| via=Trove
}} </ref>
In October 1923 the film was occasionally being screened in England.<ref>{{Citation
| title=Our English Letter.
| journal=Everyones.
| issue=Vol.4 No.192 (7 November 1923)
| location=Sydney
| publisher=Everyones Ltd
| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-560357683
| id=nla.obj-560357683
| access-date=28 April 2024
| via=Trove
}} </ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
*{{IMDb title|id=0337113}}
*[http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/s...;query=Id:340367;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10 ''The Romance of Burke and Wills Expedition'']{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} at [[National Film and Sound Archive]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Romance of Burke and Wills Expedition of 1860, A}}
[[Category:1918 films]]
[[Category:Australian drama films]]
[[Category:Australian black-and-white films]]
[[Category:Australian silent feature films]]
[[Category:1918 drama films]]
[[Category:Silent drama films]]
[[Category:1910s English-language films]]
[[Category:Cultural depictions of Burke and Wills]]
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{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2022}}
{{Infobox film
| name = A Romance of the Burke and Wills Expedition of 1860
| image =
| caption =
| director = Charles Byers Coates
| producer = A.C. Tinsdale
| writer = A.C. Tinsdale<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57975030 |title=Untitled |newspaper=[[The Sunday Times (Western Australia)|Sunday Times]] |location=Perth |date=31 July 1921 |accessdate=30 April 2012 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref><br>Edmund Duggan
| narrator =
| starring = Charles Clarke
| music =
| cinematography = [[Franklyn Barrett]] <br>[[A. O. Segerberg]]<br>[[Walter Sully]]
| editing =
| studio = Antipodes Films<br>[[Austral Photoplay Company]]
| distributor = Kookaburra Films<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article146592743 |title=SCENE FROM A ROMANCE OF THE BURKE AND WILLS EXPEDITION OF 1860. |newspaper=[[Table Talk]] |issue=[?]728 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=5 September 1918 |accessdate=28 April 2024 |page=33 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref>
| released = 7 September 1918
| runtime = 6 reels<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5590438 |title=A ROMANCE OF BURKE AND WILLS. |newspaper=[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser]] |location=Adelaide |date=14 September 1918 |accessdate=30 April 2012 |page=11 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
| country = Australia
| language = [[Silent film]] <br>English intertitles
| budget = over £2,000<ref name="romance">{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57541718 |title=BURKE AND WILLS. |newspaper=[[The Register (Adelaide)|The Register]] |location=Adelaide |date=14 September 1918 |accessdate=30 April 2012 |page=10 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
| gross =
}}
'''''A Romance of the Burke and Wills Expedition of 1860''''' is a 1918 Australian [[silent film]]. The plot is fictional and is loosely based around the [[Burke and Wills expedition]].
==Plot==
[[Robert O'Hara Burke]] leads an expedition from Melbourne to the north of Australia, including [[William John Wills]], [[john King (explorer)|John King]], Gray, Dandells and Brahe. Although he reaches the [[Gulf of Carpentaria]] along with Wills and King when they return to their base at [[Cooper Creek]] they discover their comrades have left without them. Burke and Wills both die but King is rescued by aborigines and survives.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45454892 |title=BURKE AND WILLS EXPEDITION. |newspaper=[[The Barrier Miner]] |location=Broken Hill, NSW |date=24 September 1918 |accessdate=30 April 2012 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> A fictitious romance was added to the story.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article76199668 |title=Advertising. |newspaper=[[The Mirror (Western Australia)|The Mirror]] |location=Perth |date=13 August 1921 |accessdate=30 April 2012 |page=4 Section: SECOND SECTION |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
Chapter headings included:
*a love romance
*a minuet of 1857
*expedition leaves Melbourne
*scenes along the route
*customs and habits of natives
*gorgeous desert sunsets
*historic landmarks
*there is no death.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27999997 |title=Advertising. |newspaper=[[The West Australian]] |location=Perth |date=6 August 1921 |accessdate=30 April 2012 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
According to the ''Argus'' "Believing that - something was needed to lighten the tragedy of the story, the producers have introduced a certain number of fictional scenes relating to the days of preparation, and have thus brought in a love interest. There are other Melbourne
scenes' for which there is more Authority, and the old costumes give an air of quaintness. in the bush the tragic situations of the familiar record are portrayed,
and native customs are illustrated.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1442243 |title=THE PICTURES. |newspaper=[[The Argus (Melbourne)]] |issue=22,499 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=9 September 1918 |accessdate=28 April 2024 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref>
==Cast==
[[File:Romance_of_Burke.png|thumb|right|Advertiser 14 Sept 1918]]
*Charles Clarke as [[Robert O'Hara Burke]]
*George Patterson as [[William John Wills]]
*Chris Olsen as [[John King (explorer)|John King]]
*G. Gould as W. Grey
*Bias Kotes as William Brahe
*David Edelsten as Mayor of Melbourne
*Vera Chamberlain as Mina Doyle
*Ona Landers as Stella McDonald
*Madame Carbasse as Mrs Doyle
*Melville Stevenson as Dost Mahommed
*Astor Lewis as Bridget
*Yvonne Blight as maid
*Dorothy Beer and Evelyn Hooper as Mina's sisters
*Clayre St Start and Ida Hooper
==Production==
The film was completed in November 1917 and originally ran for three reels. Director Charles Coates then spent another month in central Australia shooting additional footage. Filming took over 12 months all up and involved more than 300 people. Reportedly shooting some scenes involved a risk to the cinematographer's life.<ref name="romance"/>
The cast included Madam Carbasse, the French mother of [[Louise Lovely]].
Reportedly the film was based on a script by [[Edmund Duggan (playwright)|Edmund Duggan]] using material at the Mitchell Library. The [[National Film and Sound Archive]] recently obtained a copy of this script.<ref>{{Citation
| author1=National Film and Sound Archive (Australia).
| title=APPENDIX 6: KEY ACQUISITION GEMS AND HIGHLIGHTS FOR 2008-09
| journal=Annual report
| year=2009
| issn=1837-2260
| series=Parliamentary paper (Australia. Parliament)
| issue=2008/2009, PP no. 371 of 2009
| location=Acton, A.C.T
| publisher=National Film & Sound Archive
| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1189945882
| id=nla.obj-1189945882
| access-date=22 October 2023
| via=Trove
}}</ref><ref>[https://www.antiquesreporter.com.au...expedition-of-1860-picture-drama-original-sc/ Report on script] at Antiques Reporter</ref>
==Release==
The movie was previewed to the trade in May 1918 and submitted for censorship in June 1918.<ref name="Pike">Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 82</ref>
It was released in September 1918 and screeed at J Tait's cinema in Melbourne.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article221427161 |title=Notes from the Picture Shows |newspaper=The Sun |issue=811 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=13 October 1918 |accessdate=28 April 2024 |page=21 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref>
The movie was still being screened in cinemas in Perth in the middle of 1921.<ref>{{Citation
| title=OLD FILM STILL IN BUSINESS.
| journal=Everyones.
| date=10 August 1921
| location=Sydney
| publisher=Everyones Ltd
| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-584371542
| id=nla.obj-584371542
| access-date=28 April 2024
| via=Trove
}} </ref>
In October 1923 the film was occasionally being screened in England.<ref>{{Citation
| title=Our English Letter.
| journal=Everyones.
| issue=Vol.4 No.192 (7 November 1923)
| location=Sydney
| publisher=Everyones Ltd
| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-560357683
| id=nla.obj-560357683
| access-date=28 April 2024
| via=Trove
}} </ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
*{{IMDb title|id=0337113}}
*[http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/s...;query=Id:340367;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10 ''The Romance of Burke and Wills Expedition'']{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} at [[National Film and Sound Archive]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Romance of Burke and Wills Expedition of 1860, A}}
[[Category:1918 films]]
[[Category:Australian drama films]]
[[Category:Australian black-and-white films]]
[[Category:Australian silent feature films]]
[[Category:1918 drama films]]
[[Category:Silent drama films]]
[[Category:1910s English-language films]]
[[Category:Cultural depictions of Burke and Wills]]
Okumaya devam et...