This was a TV play on the BBC about an Australian subject matter. It has been called "probably the first television play written and acted by Australians to be on any television screen." Henry C James wrote it, Joy Nichols starred.
Cast
* Christine Adrian as Alice
* Fred Conyngham as Commercial traveller
* Tony Quinn as Charlie Ryan
* Eric Worth as Commercial traveller’s friend
* Henry C. James as Scientist
* Joy Nichols as Scientist’s girl friend
Production
Produced by Eric Fawcett ... producer
Art Department James Bould
Writer Henry.C James
For info on James see Crock of Gold entry.
Henry
James, .an Australian who’s been making films in Britain and Europe for
the last 15 years, is back to make a documentary for the Dutch Gov
ernment on how Dutch migrants are making out in Australia. Idea will be
to interest the million surplus Dutchmen in Holland in Australia and
induce them to migrate. James wrote the script for The First of . the
Few and pioneered television drama in London with two Australian
stories, The Bun- yip and the Crock of Gold.
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| The Intimate Screen: Early British Television Drama By Jason Jacobs, Lecturer in Film and Television Studies Jason Jacobs p 101 |
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