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Scenes from the film 'The Breaking of the Drought'
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![Scenes from the film 'The Breaking of the Drought'. Each photograph is annotated on verso with information about the image, and numbered to indicate the sequence each appeared on the screen. Contents: (1) Principal and a few of the members, 'Breaking of the Drought' Co, 1920 (MS8827/13/PHO171); (2) Damper and Jo Galloway. Jo: The housemaid's cleaned out with the boundary rider so you'd better help the Missus, Damper (MS8827/13/PHO172); (3) Olive Lorette's flat. Olive worked hard at pleasure (MS8827/13/PHO173); (4) Gilbert Galloway meets Olive Lorette (MS8827/13/PHO174); (5) On route to 'Wallaby' Gilbert and Varsy witness a 'buckingup' ride by Miss Ethel Newry (MS8827/13/PHO175); (6) Gilbert: A different sort of girl to our city friends, eh Varsy. Lyddleton: There are two sorts of girls – good ones and bad ones. The bad girls are never found at home – the good ones are never found out. (MS8827/13/PHO176); (7) Olive Lorette, [played by] Miss Marie La Varre (MS8827/13/PHO177); (8) Gilbert: Too early for any of our friends, Olive. Must be another chum. You'd better see him. (MS8827/13/PHO178); (9) Olive: We've almost done this poor boy down to his last penny. Soon it will be a case of me keeping him – not him keeping me. (MS8827/13/PHO179); (10) At 'Wallaby'. The Galloways decide to visit Gilbert in Sydney (MS8827/13/PHO180); (11) The Galloways arrive on a visit to Gilbert (MS8827/13/PHO181); (12) Jo Galloway interviews the Bank Manager (MS8827/13/PHO182); (13) Marjorie: Go back to the Bush … There's plenty of honest work (MS8827/13/PHO183); (14) Woolloomooloo poverty, Mrs Galloway (MS8827/13/PHO184); (15) Members of the Hurricane Club dance to a Jazz Band (MS8827/13/PHO185); (16) Pas de Deux ay Hurricane Club (MS8827/13/PHO186); (17) Ballerina and Rone [?] at Hurricane Club (MS8827/13/PHO187); (18) Marjorie [played by Trilby Clark] at the Hurricane Club (MS8827/13/PHO188); (19) Lyddleton secures Olive's diamonds. The strangling scene (MS8827/13/PHO189); (20) Wattleby: Poor frail piece of clay. Your mad race on the road to ruin is ended. This is your prize. May God forgive you as I do. (MS8827/13/PHO190); (21) Gilbert seeks to expiate his follies and sins in the clean bracing air of the Outback (MS8827/13/PHO191); (22) Ride to the Rescue. Bushfire. [Moral]: Fire, uncontrolled, ravages, but, held in cheque, makes power. Every force in man's nature that is not curbed becomes a weakness. (MS8827/13/PHO192). Date: 1920. ID: IE1265458. We ask you to respect State Library Victoria’s policies with regard to copying and re-using works with indigenous content.](https://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/preview/YLV/YLV1/YLV1039/YLV1039732_Scenes-from-the-film-The-Breaking-of-the-Drought.jpg "Scenes from the film 'The Breaking of the Drought'")
| Caption | Scenes from the film 'The Breaking of the Drought'. Each photograph is annotated on verso with information about the image, and numbered to indicate the sequence each appeared on the screen. Contents: (1) Principal and a few of the members, 'Breaking of the Drought' Co, 1920 (MS8827/13/PHO171); (2) Damper and Jo Galloway. Jo: The housemaid's cleaned out with the boundary rider so you'd better help the Missus, Damper (MS8827/13/PHO172); (3) Olive Lorette's flat. Olive worked hard at pleasure (MS8827/13/PHO173); (4) Gilbert Galloway meets Olive Lorette (MS8827/13/PHO174); (5) On route to 'Wallaby' Gilbert and Varsy witness a 'buckingup' ride by Miss Ethel Newry (MS8827/13/PHO175); (6) Gilbert: A different sort of girl to our city friends, eh Varsy. Lyddleton: There are two sorts of girls – good ones and bad ones. The bad girls are never found at home – the good ones are never found out. (MS8827/13/PHO176); (7) Olive Lorette, [played by] Miss Marie La Varre (MS8827/13/PHO177); (8) Gilbert: Too early for any of our friends, Olive. Must be another chum. You'd better see him. (MS8827/13/PHO178); (9) Olive: We've almost done this poor boy down to his last penny. Soon it will be a case of me keeping him – not him keeping me. (MS8827/13/PHO179); (10) At 'Wallaby'. The Galloways decide to visit Gilbert in Sydney (MS8827/13/PHO180); (11) The Galloways arrive on a visit to Gilbert (MS8827/13/PHO181); (12) Jo Galloway interviews the Bank Manager (MS8827/13/PHO182); (13) Marjorie: Go back to the Bush … There's plenty of honest work (MS8827/13/PHO183); (14) Woolloomooloo poverty, Mrs Galloway (MS8827/13/PHO184); (15) Members of the Hurricane Club dance to a Jazz Band (MS8827/13/PHO185); (16) Pas de Deux ay Hurricane Club (MS8827/13/PHO186); (17) Ballerina and Rone [?] at Hurricane Club (MS8827/13/PHO187); (18) Marjorie [played by Trilby Clark] at the Hurricane Club (MS8827/13/PHO188); (19) Lyddleton secures Olive's diamonds. The strangling scene (MS8827/13/PHO189); (20) Wattleby: Poor frail piece of clay. Your mad race on the road to ruin is ended. This is your prize. May God forgive you as I do. (MS8827/13/PHO190); (21) Gilbert seeks to expiate his follies and sins in the clean bracing air of the Outback (MS8827/13/PHO191); (22) Ride to the Rescue. Bushfire. [Moral]: Fire, uncontrolled, ravages, but, held in cheque, makes power. Every force in man's nature that is not curbed becomes a weakness. (MS8827/13/PHO192). Date: 1920. ID: IE1265458. We ask you to respect State Library Victoria’s policies with regard to copying and re-using works with indigenous content. |
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| Creator | see caption |
| Artwork medium | 23 photographic prints: gelatin silver; no larger than 205 x 255 cm. Or reverse |
| Credit | State Library Victoria (Australia) |
| Terms of use | No known copyright restrictions |
| Search stock images by keyword | Scenes film Breaking Drought |
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| YLV1039732 | 5,619 x 7,000 pixels | 11 |
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