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Fellers. Arthur Clarke (left rear), Arthur Tauchert (right, front)
form y separately published work icon Fellers single work   film/TV   humour  
Issue Details: First known date: 1930... 1930 Fellers
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A comedy film about three friends serving in the Australian Light Horse during the Palestine Campaign of World War I, Fellers stars Arthur Tauchert, best known for his lead role in The Sentimental Bloke (1919).

The narrative sees each of the men enlist in the war for different reasons. One joins for excitement; 'another because he thought he killed a man in a fight over a girl; the third because he thought the girl he loved was in love with another. The second man is killed laying a pipe to supply the army with water. To save the girl back home from heartbreak (her father has recently died), the third man swaps identification tags with the dead man, and has himself reported as dead. He then finds out that the girl loves him. After the war, the complications are resolved and the third man is reunited with the girl' (Pike and Cooper, Australian Film 1900-1977).

Initially made as a silent film, Fellers had sound (including a song) synchronised with the final reel.

Exhibitions

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Notes

  • The silent sequences were directed by Arthur Higgins and the sound sequences by Austin Fay.
  • For further details see: Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper Australian Film, 1900-1977 : A Guide to Feature Film Production (1980), 203-204.
  • The National Film and Sound archive displays a number of images related to this film on their Flickr page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nfsa/sets/72157624167314233/ (Sighted: 17/7/2014)

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Works about this Work

The Long Shadow of 1927 Ray Edmondson , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Australasian Cinema , vol. 9 no. 3 2015; (p. 230-240)
The Long Shadow of 1927 Ray Edmondson , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Australasian Cinema , vol. 9 no. 3 2015; (p. 230-240)
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