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Australia Calls is a film directed by Raymond Longford with Lottie Lyell
Australia Calls (1913)
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Australia Calls is a 1913 Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford about the fictitious invasion of Australia by an unnamed Asian country.
The movie is not to be confused with Longford's 1923 picture Australia Calls and is considered a lost film.
Longford later claimed the film was the first Australian movie to have mass extras (from Sydney's Chinatown) and feature model photography, as well as being the first film in the world to show wireless. Film historians have said "the scale and blatant progpaganda of [the film]... made it the least typical of Longford's thirty narrative films".
Synopsis
The film begins with a prologue, 'The Warning', showing a Sydney horse race, then a football match in front of thousands of spectators. Living on an outback station, Beatrice Evans (Lottie Lyell) rejects the advances of a suitor. An unnamed Asian country lands 20,000 troops (called "Mongolians") on the New South Wales coast, and Australia issues a call to arms, mobilising its forces. The invading army attacks Sydney, setting buildings on fire and taking over the Min, Treasury Building and wireless telegraph station. The rejected suitor turns traitor and Beatrice is captured by the enemy. However she is rescued by plane with the help of aviator William E. Hart and the Australians are victorious.Actors
Lottie Lyell
(Beatrice Evans)
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