The digitally remastered print of 1927 classic Australian silent comedy The Kid Stakes is being screened for AFI-aacta members in Sydney next month.
But the credits don.t acknowledge that the film could have been lost to posterity but for the rescue efforts by the Sydney University Film Group including John Morris in 1953.
That omission dismays film activist David Donaldson, a member of the group who later became the inaugural director of the Sydney Film Festival.
Directed and written by Tal Ordell, the film is a faithful adaptation of Syd Nicholls. Fatty Finn comic strip, chronicling the adventures of a gang of kids in Woolloomooloo.
The National Film and Sound Archive restored the film as a Dcp (Digital Cinema Package), which was screened at its Arc cinema in Canberra in June with a new score composed and played by Jan Preston.
A donor, borrower, critic and advocate of the Archive and...
But the credits don.t acknowledge that the film could have been lost to posterity but for the rescue efforts by the Sydney University Film Group including John Morris in 1953.
That omission dismays film activist David Donaldson, a member of the group who later became the inaugural director of the Sydney Film Festival.
Directed and written by Tal Ordell, the film is a faithful adaptation of Syd Nicholls. Fatty Finn comic strip, chronicling the adventures of a gang of kids in Woolloomooloo.
The National Film and Sound Archive restored the film as a Dcp (Digital Cinema Package), which was screened at its Arc cinema in Canberra in June with a new score composed and played by Jan Preston.
A donor, borrower, critic and advocate of the Archive and...
- 7/14/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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