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I found this charming shot along with others from a 1930s film made by probably Australia's most famous/prolific filmmaker.
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I want those chairs.
And look at her shoes!
That's a great photo, thanks.
It makes a great desktop.
I want those chairs.
And look at her shoes!
That's a great photo, thanks.
It makes a great desktop.
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Pith helmet...hmm, wonder where I can snag one before the FL event this Saturday?
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I saw a bunch of pith helmets for sale at the Zoo last Sunday in Balmoral? (North side of Sydney). I was chasing my three-year-old daughter around the store, which is a kid's dream come true full of books, stuffed animals and toys, and I noticed a bunch of tourists trying on pith helmets.
Unfortunately, due to being exhausted from the previous five hours of chasing aforementioned daughter around the entire zoo, I just couldn't be bothered going back to have a closer look. Besides, I've never seen a vintage one up close, so I wouldn't have been able to vouch for the authenticity of the items they were selling anyway.
Very cool pic Cookie.
I saw a bunch of pith helmets for sale at the Zoo last Sunday in Balmoral? (North side of Sydney). I was chasing my three-year-old daughter around the store, which is a kid's dream come true full of books, stuffed animals and toys, and I noticed a bunch of tourists trying on pith helmets.
Unfortunately, due to being exhausted from the previous five hours of chasing aforementioned daughter around the entire zoo, I just couldn't be bothered going back to have a closer look. Besides, I've never seen a vintage one up close, so I wouldn't have been able to vouch for the authenticity of the items they were selling anyway.
Very cool pic Cookie.
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Not just great shoes-check out his socks.I love his whole outfit,but they all look swell. Thanks for the pic. If you have any more please show them. Cheers!
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Those Chairs
Scotty those chairs are very popular Down Under for the footy BBQs etc you get them anywhere.
scotrace said:I want those chairs.
And look at her shoes!
That's a great photo, thanks.
Scotty those chairs are very popular Down Under for the footy BBQs etc you get them anywhere.
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Ken G Hall Bio
Biography
Hall was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1901 and educated at North Sydney Boys' High School. He began his working life as a journalist before moving into the Australian silent film industry as a publicist. He began directing films in 1928 and was most prolific during the 1930s when he established his style of presenting authentic working Australian people in movies made almost exclusively for the Australian market, with characters speaking in strong Australian accents. Most often his characters were "battlers", who struggled to improve their situation with good humour.
Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, Hall was in charge of Australia's leading domestic studio, Cinesound Productions. As both producer and director, he was particularly successful with a series of serio-comedies based on the popular writings of author Steele Rudd, which featured the adventures of a fictional Autrallian farming family, the Rudds, and the perennial father-and-son duo, 'Dad and Dave' . Hall's Dad & Dave films were hugely popular at the time and are still considered among the best Australian comedies of the period. He was also successful with melodramas like The Silence of Dean Maitland (1935).
His other films include On Our Selection (1932), Strike Me Lucky (1934), which starred legendary stage comedian Roy "Mo" Rene, Let George Do It (1938) starring the equally famous comedian George Wallace, (UK version- "In the Nick of Time" to avoid confusion with 1940 Movie also called Let George Do It starring George Formby) Dad and Dave Come to Town (1938),[[ Gone to the Dogs starring George Wallace. Dad Rudd, M.P. (1940) and Tall Timbers (1940). His comedy films had always proved popular but by the 1940s, as the influence of the American film industry began to dominate the world market, the once-thriving local industry began to dwindle. It has been claimed that this was in part because Australian audiences were beginning to regard locally produced films as pass?®, and that they preferred films from Hollywood, but there were other economic factors at work, and it is now widely accepted that the Australian industry was seriously undermined by the takeover of a number of major Australian distribution companies by American interests, and by the increasing reluctance of local investors to back Australian productions.
Hall continued working in the production of newsreels and documentaries through the Forties and beyond. During the war years, Hall oversaw several documentaries, including the Oscar-winning Kokoda Front Line (1942). His biggest worldwide success was 1946's Smithy, a film biography of Australia's most famous aviator, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, which he produced, co-wrote and directed. Remakably, the film was picked up for American distribution by Columbia Pictures, a studio that normally steered clear of foreign product.
After the J. Arthur Rank organisation took over Cinesound after the war, Hall concentrated on exhibition and distribution. He moved into a whole new entertainment arena when, in 1956, he established Australia's first television station. Ken G. Hall wrote two autobiographical books: Directed by Ken G. Hall (1977) and Australian Film: The Inside Story (1980).
The Australian Film Institute recognised his ability to convey the unique Australian character on film, and his important contribution to the development of the Australian film industry, with a Raymond Longford Award for "Lifetime Achievement" in 1976.
Since 1988, Hall's movies have been reintroduced to the Australian public by regular screenings at the 1930's style Kings Cinema at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, where one of his movies including the Silence of Dean Maitland, On Our Selection and others have been shown daily.
Hall died in Sydney in 1994.
In 1995 the Australian National Film & Sound Archive (Screensound inaugurated the annual Ken G. Hall Award, which is presented by the Archive each year to a person, organisation or group that has made an outstanding contribution to Australian film preservation.
Biography
Hall was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1901 and educated at North Sydney Boys' High School. He began his working life as a journalist before moving into the Australian silent film industry as a publicist. He began directing films in 1928 and was most prolific during the 1930s when he established his style of presenting authentic working Australian people in movies made almost exclusively for the Australian market, with characters speaking in strong Australian accents. Most often his characters were "battlers", who struggled to improve their situation with good humour.
Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, Hall was in charge of Australia's leading domestic studio, Cinesound Productions. As both producer and director, he was particularly successful with a series of serio-comedies based on the popular writings of author Steele Rudd, which featured the adventures of a fictional Autrallian farming family, the Rudds, and the perennial father-and-son duo, 'Dad and Dave' . Hall's Dad & Dave films were hugely popular at the time and are still considered among the best Australian comedies of the period. He was also successful with melodramas like The Silence of Dean Maitland (1935).
His other films include On Our Selection (1932), Strike Me Lucky (1934), which starred legendary stage comedian Roy "Mo" Rene, Let George Do It (1938) starring the equally famous comedian George Wallace, (UK version- "In the Nick of Time" to avoid confusion with 1940 Movie also called Let George Do It starring George Formby) Dad and Dave Come to Town (1938),[[ Gone to the Dogs starring George Wallace. Dad Rudd, M.P. (1940) and Tall Timbers (1940). His comedy films had always proved popular but by the 1940s, as the influence of the American film industry began to dominate the world market, the once-thriving local industry began to dwindle. It has been claimed that this was in part because Australian audiences were beginning to regard locally produced films as pass?®, and that they preferred films from Hollywood, but there were other economic factors at work, and it is now widely accepted that the Australian industry was seriously undermined by the takeover of a number of major Australian distribution companies by American interests, and by the increasing reluctance of local investors to back Australian productions.
Hall continued working in the production of newsreels and documentaries through the Forties and beyond. During the war years, Hall oversaw several documentaries, including the Oscar-winning Kokoda Front Line (1942). His biggest worldwide success was 1946's Smithy, a film biography of Australia's most famous aviator, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, which he produced, co-wrote and directed. Remakably, the film was picked up for American distribution by Columbia Pictures, a studio that normally steered clear of foreign product.
After the J. Arthur Rank organisation took over Cinesound after the war, Hall concentrated on exhibition and distribution. He moved into a whole new entertainment arena when, in 1956, he established Australia's first television station. Ken G. Hall wrote two autobiographical books: Directed by Ken G. Hall (1977) and Australian Film: The Inside Story (1980).
The Australian Film Institute recognised his ability to convey the unique Australian character on film, and his important contribution to the development of the Australian film industry, with a Raymond Longford Award for "Lifetime Achievement" in 1976.
Since 1988, Hall's movies have been reintroduced to the Australian public by regular screenings at the 1930's style Kings Cinema at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, where one of his movies including the Silence of Dean Maitland, On Our Selection and others have been shown daily.
Hall died in Sydney in 1994.
In 1995 the Australian National Film & Sound Archive (Screensound inaugurated the annual Ken G. Hall Award, which is presented by the Archive each year to a person, organisation or group that has made an outstanding contribution to Australian film preservation.
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