Cirrus@Austlit

The Internet Archive free download version (55 mins) comes from a second generation VHS copy distributed by the New South Wales Department of Education in the early 1980s.

In 1973, Australian film archivist Ray Edmondson discovered six cans of nitrate film stock in America. They had been stored in the George Eastman House (Rochester) since 1921 under the erroneous title 'The Sentimental Blode.' The footage was restored by the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) in 1993 using new technology, and this print was screened that same year at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival (Italy), accompanied by live music. The positive reactions to the screening led the NFSA to attempt a reconstruction of the film using all available footage.

The new version was given its world premiere screening at the Sydney Film Festival on 15 June 2004 with the live musical accompaniment. The score which was created especially for the film was performed by composer Jen Anderson and The Larrikins. Following its premiere, the film undertook a tour of the Australian capital cities and has since been screened around regional Australia.

The NFSA also holds a number of items in its collection related to both the original 1919 and 1932 versions of the film and the various reconstructed versions. See http://www.nfsa.gov.au/.