My mother has just unearthed a cache of family material - photos, letters, etc - and we're planning on having a session with them later this week. One of the standouts, however, is a movie proposal he put forward to Columbia - a biopic of William Vincent Wallace, titled Maritana.
My grandfather was something of a scholar, a bit out of place working as a headmaster in country NSW - we've always intended to track down his thesis in the State Library, as he conducted interviews with some of the men and women who knew the bushrangers of the previous century, and there may be some otherwise unrecorded oral history on the Hall-Gilbert or even the Kelly gang. He published a book (sporting subject matter - not my area) and in periodicals, and among the papers mum has unearthed are some original verses.
The script treatment still has the rejection letter attached - signed by Micky Coleman in the Story Department, dated Feb 12 1946, and on Columbia Pictures letterhead.
My grandfather was something of a scholar, a bit out of place working as a headmaster in country NSW - we've always intended to track down his thesis in the State Library, as he conducted interviews with some of the men and women who knew the bushrangers of the previous century, and there may be some otherwise unrecorded oral history on the Hall-Gilbert or even the Kelly gang. He published a book (sporting subject matter - not my area) and in periodicals, and among the papers mum has unearthed are some original verses.
The script treatment still has the rejection letter attached - signed by Micky Coleman in the Story Department, dated Feb 12 1946, and on Columbia Pictures letterhead.
I wonder if he stopped at that one rejection or kept sending it out.
