Fellers (1930)

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Fellers is a 1930 Australian comedy about three friends in the Australian Light Horse during the Palestine Campaign of World War I starring Arthur Tauchert, who was the lead in The Sentimental Bloke (1919). The film is mostly silent with a recorded music score as an accompaniment, but the last reel was synchronised with a few minutes of dialogue and a song.

Production

In December 1929 it was announced that a company, Artaus, had been formed to make the film and shooting would begin by January 1930. Filming was pushed forward to qualify for the Commonwealth Government Film Competition. Tasman Higgins and Austin Fay had previously collaborated together on Odds On.

Filming commenced in early 1930 and the film was finished by March. According to Everyones, the filmmakers claimed Fellers "the first Australian picture filmed on Pan K and Pan 2 stock, said to be the most sensitive and fastest working in the world; and that it is the first Australian picture made with noiseless incandescent lighting" and "the first Australian picture that records faithfully the Australian Light Horse in Palestine."

According to the company’s announcement, “supporting players have reduced the Poverty Point congregation by another seventy-four pros, and near-pros.”

Scenes set in the Palestinian desert were shot in sandhills at Kensington near Sydney and in Western New South Wales. The film incorporates documentary footage of the real campaign. The silent sequences were direct by Arthur Higgins and the sound ones by Austin Fay.

The film took eight and a half months to make and featured 208 people.

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