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	Arthur Tauchert. Frame enlargement: courtesy National Film and Sound Archive, Australia.

Cast: Arthur Tauchert [‘The Bloke’], Lottie Lyell [Doreen], Gilbert Emory [‘Ginger’ Mick], Harry Young [‘The Stror ’at Coot’], Margaret Reid [Doreen’s mother], Charles Keegan [the parson]

Australasian Cinematograph Company Pty, Limited, production. / Scenario by Raymond Longford and Lottie Lyell, from a poem by C.J. Dennis. Cinematography by Arthur Higgins. / Premiered November 1918 at the Adelaide Wondergraph in Adelaide, Australia [private showing]. Released November 1919 (in Adelaide). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Followed by Ginger Mick (1920).

Comedy.

Survival status: Prints exist in the National Film and Sound Archive, Australia, film archive [35mm preservation negative, 35mm preservation positives]; also in private film collections [16mm reduction positives].

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Listing updated: 5 October 2014.

References: Limbacher-Feature p. 217; Shirley-Australian pp. 31, 32, 50, 53, 54, 55-56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 64-65, 68, 71, 86, 86d, 92, 96, 114 : Website-NFSA.

Home video: DVD.