There are quite a few stories on Thunderbolt and then there are many more versions of those stories. I've also learnt that he may have even fled to Canada his poor brother was strung up for the cameras!
It's quite fascinating, Mark, how certain stories or characters can reach mythic proportions. Then the story of the stories really becomes the story. Thunderbolt is one such!
True that any novel, drama or film will make the best effect from the "facts".This film has a notable place as early work by people who gained distinction in the later development of Australian film making. Back then, all the distribution companies, and the two major theatre chains, were overseas owned and Very Uninterested.Also as an early statement in popular media about the situation of indigenous people -- and this element is now largely missing from the version shortened for TV!Keep an eye on the extensive link-filled pages from National Film and Sound Archive: http://www.nfsa.gov.au/the_collection/australias-lost-films/index.htmlMake contact with the Search for the proper film through www.captainthunderboltfilm.vpweb.com.au
Hi David. How nice to get a comment from you! I will run another, fuller, post, including the Aboriginal linkage. I actually rememember that from the original film, but not from the second showing I saw at school.
Hi again, David. I have an extras photo that matches one of the shots from the film!
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There are quite a few stories on Thunderbolt and then there are many more versions of those stories.
I've also learnt that he may have even fled to Canada his poor brother was strung up for the cameras!
It's quite fascinating, Mark, how certain stories or characters can reach mythic proportions. Then the story of the stories really becomes the story. Thunderbolt is one such!
True that any novel, drama or film will make the best effect from the "facts".
This film has a notable place as early work by people who gained distinction in the later development of Australian film making. Back then, all the distribution companies, and the two major theatre chains, were overseas owned and Very Uninterested.
Also as an early statement in popular media about the situation of indigenous people -- and this element is now largely missing from the version shortened for TV!
Keep an eye on the extensive link-filled pages from National Film and Sound Archive: http://www.nfsa.gov.au/the_collection/australias-lost-films/index.html
Make contact with the Search for the proper film through www.captainthunderboltfilm.vpweb.com.au
Hi David. How nice to get a comment from you! I will run another, fuller, post, including the Aboriginal linkage. I actually rememember that from the original film, but not from the second showing I saw at school.
Hi again, David. I have an extras photo that matches one of the shots from the film!
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