Fraser Film Release and Photographic Company

Fraser Film Release and Photographic Company was an Australian film company formed in 1912 by two brothers, Archie and Colin Fraser. It operated as a film exchange, importing movies from overseas, and production house, making shorts, features and documentaries.[1][2]

Early financial support came from Giuseppe Borsalino, an Italian businessman who invested in Italian films and used Fraser Films as an Australia outlet for his company.[3] Among the filmmakers who worked for them were Franklyn Barrett, Raymond Longford and Alfred Rolfe.[4]

Despite some early successes, the company suffered from pressure exerted by the "combine" of Australasian Films and decline of production from Europe due to World War I where Fraser brought many of their films. The company wound up in 1918.[5]

Select credits

Whale Hunting in Jarvis Bay (1913) – documentary
A Blue Gum Romance (1913) – feature
The Life of a Jackeroo (1913) – feature
The Silence of Dean Maitland (1914) – feature
We'll Take her Children in amongst our own (1915) – short
The Day (1914) – feature
Ma Hogan's New Boarder (1915) – short
The Sunny South or The Whirlwind of Fate (1915) – feature
Murphy of Anzac (1916) – feature

References

"Advertising". The West Australian. Perth: National Library of Australia. 16 May 1914. p. 2. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
"FRASER FILM EXCHANGE". The Referee. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 23 December 1914. p. 15. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
Graham Shirley and Brian Adams, Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years, Currency Press 1989 p 34-35
"The Lure of the Movies—A Mammoth Enterprise". The Sunday Times. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 1 March 1914. p. 2 Supplement: SUNDAY TIMES GLOBE PICTORIAL. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 39

External links

Archive and Colin Fraser at National Film and Sound Archive

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[1] "Advertising". The West Australian. Perth: National Library of Australia. 16 May 1914. p. 2. Retrieved 10 April 2012.

[2] "FRASER FILM EXCHANGE". The Referee. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 23 December 1914. p. 15. Retrieved 9 November 2014.

[3] Graham Shirley and Brian Adams, Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years, Currency Press 1989 p 34-35

[4] "The Lure of the Movies—A Mammoth Enterprise". The Sunday Times. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 1 March 1914. p. 2 Supplement: SUNDAY TIMES GLOBE PICTORIAL. Retrieved 10 December 2014.

[Pike-5] Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 39