Rip Van Winkle is a 1912 Australian feature-length film directed by W. J. Lincoln about Rip Van Winkle.[2] It was arguably Australia's first fantasy film.[3]
Rip Van Winkle | |
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Directed by | W. J. Lincoln |
Based on | stage adaptation by Joseph Jefferson and Dion Boucicault of Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving |
Produced by | William Gibson Millard Johnson John Tait Nevin Tait |
Starring | Arthur Styan |
Cinematography | Orrie Perry |
Production company | Amalgamated Pictures |
Distributed by | Tait's Pictures |
Release date | 6 April 1912 (Melbourne)[1] |
Country | Australia |
Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
It is considered a lost film.
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The film was made in the wake of a successful Australian season of Joseph Jefferson and Dion Boucicault's theatre adaptation of Washington Irving's 1819 short story "Rip Van Winkle".[5]
One reviewer said that star Arthur Styan "has figured in several of the previous productions of the Amalgamated Pictures Ltd., and who makes quite a success of this."[6]
Assisting Lincoln was Sam Crews.[7]
The film appears not to have been widely released. The Bendigo Advertiser said that "the famous story is most effectively explained in the picture production."[8]
In April 1912 The Bulletin said "Rip Van Winkle is biographed in Melbourne excellently, by an Australian company, with Styan as Winkle."[9]
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