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The Eveleigh Railway Film Festival will take place at Australian Technology Park, Sydney, 25th February 2012.
Several McGowan films have been programmed for Eveleigh (Redfern, NSW): <http://eveleigh-railway-film-fest.com/>
Thanks for letting us know David ... I saw the documentary (finally) on him. Fascinating stuff.
Sue
South Australian J.P. McGowan (1880-1952) was Hollywood’s Railroad Man. His career spanned forty years of Hollywood, and earlier. film acting and directing. J.P. is the only Australian to have been made a Life Member of the Screen Directors Guild, now DGA (US).
The Eveleigh Railway Film Festival will take place at Australian Technology Park, Sydney, 25th February 2012.
Several McGowan films have been programmed for Eveleigh (Redfern, NSW): <http://eveleigh-railway-film-fest.com/>
Discerned early by Jeannette Delamoir and Albie Thoms as a remarkable character, McGowan has received little official notice. A tribudoc (not actually a bio) was fostered by the Adelaide Film Festival in 2011, but since then what?
Thanks for this David ... we'll keep an eye on it. And consider it for our next newsletter.
Cheers, Sue
www.captainthunderbolt.vpweb.com.au
Meanwhile, Studies in Australasian Cinema published an interview with the main advocate, David Donaldson --
www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/sac/2011/00000005/00000001
Contact welcomed with other admirers of the work, and this 1951-53-55 work, of Cecil Holmes, Ross Wood, Robert Allen, Grant Taylor, Charles Tingwell...