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Advertisement, Border Watch, 5 July 1913, p.3
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Issue Details: First known date: 1912... 1912 The Girl from Outback
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Film Details - Australian Life Biograph Company , 1912

Production Companies:

Australian Life Biograph Company.

Release Dates:

The film appears to have premiered, marketed as an Australian film, in New Zealand, as early as late April 1912 (see, for example, 'Paris Pictures', Evening Post, 27 April 1912, p.3).

The earliest screening of the film in Australia appears to have been in Williamstown, Victoria, on 1 February 1913. (See 'Williamstown Theatre', Williamstown Chronicle, 1 February 1913, p.2).

It subsequently played in at least the following areas:

  • Port Pirie, South Australia (the Austral), in April 1913 ([Advertisement], Port Pirie Recorder and North Western Mail, 23 April 1913, p.4)
  • Melbourne, Victoria (Canterbury Theatre), in May 1913 ('Music and Drama', 26 May 1913, p.10).
  • Mount Gambier, South Australia (Globe Pictures), in early July 1913 ([Advertisement], Border Watch, 5 July 1913, p.3)
  • Launceston, Tasmania (Lyceum Theatre), in late July 1913 ('Lyceum Theatre', The Examiner, 28 July 1913, p.6)
  • Newcastle, New South Wales (Herbert's Pictures, Broadmeadow and Islington), in September 1913 ('Star Pictures', Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate, 17 September 1913, p.6)
  • Warwick, Queensland (Allman's Pictures), in January 1914 ('Allman's Pictures', Warwick Examiner and Times, 10 January 1914, p.5).

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