Living London is a 1904 English documentary film of life in London. It was produced by Charles Urban.
The film was released in Australia in 1906 and was a sensation, being seen by over 500,000 people.[1] It was distributed by J and N Tait, and their success with the movie encouraged them to make The Story of the Kelly Gang.[2][3]
The film was thought to have been lost, but ten minutes of footage was discovered in the Corrick Collection in Australia's National Film and Sound Archive in 2007 and restored.[1][4] The website charlesurban.com, however, claims that the footage is actually from Urban's 1906 documentary The Streets of London.[5]
New Zealand writer Ngaio Marsh created a mythic picture in her fiction of England, which she romanticized from seeing Living London.[6]
References
edit- ^ a b "Caring for the Corrick Collection". National Film and Sound Archive.
- ^ "LIFE & LETTERS". The West Australian. Perth. 4 May 1946. p. 5. Retrieved 30 June 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ ""Kelly Gang" Film Began Era Of "Feature" Pictures". The Sunday Herald. Sydney. 9 October 1949. p. 9 Supplement: Features. Retrieved 30 June 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Lost film footage of Edwardian London discovered". The Daily Telegraph. 23 October 2008.
- ^ "Charles Urban: Films Online". charlesurban.com. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
- ^ Ngaio Marsh: A Life by Margaret Lewis (1991) pp.38
External links
edit- Short extract of film from National Film and Sound Archive's YouTube Channel [dead link]
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