Author Archive for: ‘Screening the Past’
Information from longtime Morley resident Mat Edwards
Hello Ina Just reading your webpage on the history of Drive-ins in WA. http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/19/drive-ins-WA.html Excellent work, I must say. Just one thing though. In the second last paragraph under the heading “Issues of management and ownership…”, you mention that “The commercial operators, whether suburban or rural, sold the land when they could. Suburban operators sometimes made large profits, when the …
Read MoreIssue 22 – Editorial
Screening the Past began ten years ago and this issue celebrates that decade of publishing. In the first 21 issues we ran: 153 First Run articles; 15 Classics and Re-Runs articles; 7 guest-edited, special-themed issues with 12 guest editors; 416 reviews (mainly books), an average of 19.8 per issue; and work by 278 contributors (listed in the special “Tenth Anniversary” section …
Read MoreField survey: the poll results
As part of Screening the Past‘s tenth anniversary, we invited about 300 colleagues around Australia and the world to nominate the most important contributions to the field in the past decade – books, articles, reports, conferences, archival work, DVD reissues or commentaries, documentaries, online material, software – anything, not limited to any particular source, certainly not STP. We advised invitees that “…Screening …
Read MoreList of contributors, Issues 1-21
Authors – 278 of them – published in issues 1-21 of Screening the Past STP could not exist without its contributors. The editors take this opportunity to acknowledge you and to thank you for your continuing support. Deborah Allison Richard Armstrong Jonathan Auerbach David Baker Belinda Barnet Neil Bather Greg Battye Keith Beattie Roger Bell Mervyn F. Bendle John Benson Chris …
Read MoreAcknowledgements
The editors wish to thank Nederlands Filmmuseum for graciously allowing its restored print of The Rose of Rhodesia to receive a premiere screening in Sweden in 2007, and for making a digital version available with this special issue of Screening The Past. Without the unflagging enthusiasm of our guardian angel Elif Rongen-Kaynakci and the kind support of her colleagues this project would never …
Read MoreFilm Information
Title: ROSE OF RHODESIA, THE (Die Rose von Rhodesia) Director: Harold Shaw Production Date: 1918 Length: 5 reels (81 minutes) Format: 35mm, black and white, silent, full (silent) aperture Speed: 16 frames/second Language: German intertitles Production Company: Harold Shaw Film Productions Ltd. Country: South Africa Screenplay: Harold Shaw Photography: Henry Howse, Ernest G. Palmer Actors: Edna Flugrath Rose Randall Marmaduke A. …
Read MoreLeonie Naughton’s Publications and Other Research
Compiled by Lesley Speed with William D. Routt and David Hanan Leonie Naughton’s research about German film and contemporary screen culture has received international acknowledgement. Her work has been published in Australia, Europe and the United States, in English and German. She presented papers at international conferences, often by invitation, and at public seminars and forums for Australian film festivals. …
Read MoreAppendix A. Plot Summary
Act I. Chief Ushakapilla wants his only son, Mofti, to become leader of all Africa. When word comes that the colonial governor has denied his request for land for a third time, Ushakapilla declares to Mofti that Africa will shortly be restored to the black race. Believing such ambitions to be futile, Mofti reminds his father of the wise counsel …
Read MoreAppendix B. Intertitles with English translation
Intertitles have been numbered for ease of reference. English translation by Vreni Hockenjos. Intertitle 1 Erster Akt Act One Intertitle 2 Der Kraal des Häuptlings “Ushakapilla”. The kraal of Chief Ushakapilla. Intertitle 3 Ushakapilla, dessen größter Ehrgeiz darin besteht, seinen Sohn Mofti dereinst als Häuptling von ganz Afrika zu sehen. Ushakapilla, whose greatest ambition is to see his son, Mofti, …
Read MoreAppendix C. Press cuttings
Compiled with the generous assistance of Neil Parsons and James Burns. Fig. C1. Ink sketch of Harold Shaw, The Bioscope (London), 24 February, 1916, 759. Fig. C2. Harold Shaw on the cover of Stage and Cinema (Johannesburg), 22 April 1916. Fig. C3. “Harold Shaw’s Bargain”, Stage and Cinema (Johannesburg), 13 January 1917, 3. Fig. C4. Henry Howse, “Adventures of a ‘Movie’ Man”, Stage and Cinema (Johannesburg), 24 February …
Read MoreAppendix D. Cast and crew biographies
The following biographical information has been compiled and written in collaboration with Neil Parsons, who has generously shared his research into The Rose of Rhodesia with the editors. HAROLD MARVIN SHAW (Director). 1877-1926. After starting out as an actor in a San Francisco theatre in 1893, Shaw turned to the motion-picture business in 1909. As a member of the Edison Company’s stock …
Read MoreAppendix E. Harold Shaw filmography
The following list of films directed by Harold Shaw has been compiled from various books and online databases, including Alan Goble’s Complete Index to World Film (http://www.citwf.com), the British Film Institute’s film and television database (http://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/ftvdb/), the Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com), and Kenneth M. Cameron’s Africa on Film: Beyond Black and White (1994). It is necessarily preliminary and incomplete. Since the …
Read MoreAppendix F. Maps of Rhodesia and Southern Africa
Map 1. South Africa, circa 1900. Source unidentified. Map 2. Central and Southern Africa, 1896. George Gill, The British Colonies, Dependencies, and Protectorates (London, 1896). Map 3. Africa, 1922. The Comparative Atlas of Physical and Political Geography (London, Bartholomew 1922). Source: http://img.lib.msu.edu/branches/map/AfJPEGs/af1922l.htm. Created on: Tuesday, 18 August 2009 | Last Updated: Monday, 31 August 2009
Read MoreAppendix G. Selection of early Rhodesian ephemera
Fig. G1. The Pioneer Column of the British South Africa Company. The Graphic, 25 October 1890. Fig. G2. Tensions between the BSAC and Portugal. Punch, 5 June 1891, 266. Fig. G3. The Anglo-Ndebele War of 1893. The Penny Illustrated Paper, 7 October 1893, 240. Fig. G4. Cecil Rhodes as the Pied Piper of Rhodesia. Punch, 10 May 1899, 223. Fig. G5. Postcard, undated. Fig. …
Read MoreContributors
JAMES M. BURNS teaches African history at Clemson University. He is the author of Flickering Shadows: Cinema and Identity in Colonial Zimbabwe (2002) and co-author of A History of Sub-Saharan Africa (2007). He has published several articles on the role played by cinema in colonial Africa, and is currently working on a comparative history of cinema spectatorship in the Black Atlantic. MATTI BYE is a silent …
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Anke Bernau lectures in Medieval Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester. She is co-editor of Medieval Film (2009) and author of Virgins: A Cultural History (2007), and has authored numerous essays on medieval literature and medievalism. She is currently working on the Albina myth and theories of memory and history in the late medieval and early modern periods. Narelle Campbell is a PhD …
Read MoreMute Dreams, Blind Owls and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry
Michael M. J. Fischer responds to Thomas Redwood’s review of: Michael M. J. Fischer, Mute Dreams, Blind Owls and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2004. This review was published in Issue 20. Thank you for reviewing my book, Mute Dreams, Blind Owls and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry (Duke 2004) in Screening …
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