How We Beat the Emden
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Still from the film
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| Directed by | Alfred Rolfe |
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6 December 1915[1][2] |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | Silent film English intertitles |
How We Fought the Emden is a 1915 Australian silent film directed by Alfred Rolfe about the Battle of Cocos during World War I.[3] It features footage shot on Cocos Island.[4]
Plot
Jack enlists in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and after training on the Tingira, joins the crew of HMAS Sydney. He takes part in the Battle of Cocos, where the Australian cruiser destroys the German light cruiser SMS Emden.[5][6]
Cast
Production
The film incorporates footage from the documentary How We Fought the Emden.
It was shot at the Rushcutters Bay studio.[7]
Release
The film was popular at the box office. Actor C. Post Mason took a print with him to Canada in 1916 and screened the film over there.[3] It was also known as How We Fought the Emden[8] andy The Sydney-Emden Fight.[9]
The Motion Picture News said the film was put on "principally with the idea of drawing patrons from" For Australia and was "merely a succession of interest and topical subjects woven together, and a plot that does not reflect much credit on either the author or producers".[10]
The movie was later combined with another Australian war film, For Australia (1915) to create a new movie, For the Honour of Australia (1916).
See also
- The Exploits of the Emden, a 1928 film by Ken G. Hall, also about the Battle of Cocos
References
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p. 56
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- ↑ Hal Carleton, "Film News From Foreign Parts", Motion Picture News, 16 January 1916 accessed 23 November 2014
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). How We Beat the Emden at IMDb
- Clip from film at Australian Screen Online
- How We Beat the Emden at National Film and Sound Archive
- How We Beat the Emden at AustLit
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