| One Hundred Years Ago | |
|---|---|
 SMH 13 May 1911 | |
| Directed by | Gaston Mervale |
| Written by | P. W. Marony |
| Starring | Louise Carbasse |
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Running time | 2,000 feet[2] |
| Country | Australia |
| Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
One Hundred Years Ago is a 1911 Australiansilent film directed byGaston Mervale. It features an early screen performance fromLouise Lovely (billed as "Louise Carbasse") and is considered alost film.
The movie was billed as "an Anglo-Australian romantic drama".[3] Jasper Hugh Lovel is sent to prison atNorfolk Island for a crime he did not commit. A woman in England who loves him manages to secure his pardon and they are reunited.[4]
There was a duel sequence.[5]
The film was shot at Australian Life Biograph's factory inManly, New South Wales.[6]
Unlike many Australian films of the time, it was an original script, not based on a play. The author wasPatrick William Marony.
The story is founded on fact. In an old cell at Norfolk Island may be seen the following inscription: "I, Jasper Hugh Lovel, here proclaim, before God and man, I am innocent. May God avenge me on mine enemy."[7]
TheLaunceston Daily Telegraph called it:
One of those costume playlets, which require a deal of patience, knowledge of theperiod, and considerable skill to produce. In Mr. Mervalc all these, factors are embraced, and his work is stamped on every foot of the thousands offeet of film... Attention to tho dressing, atmosphere of the early period, and mise en scene, has been minute, iuid the results presented with clarity.[8]
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