Big Timber (novel) explained
| Big Timber |
| Author: | William Hatfield |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Novel |
| Publisher: | Angus and Robertson |
| Release Date: | 1936 |
| Media Type: | Print |
| Pages: | 266 pp. |
| Preceded By: | Black Waterlily |
| Followed By: | - |
Big Timber is a 1936 Australian novel by William Hatfield.[1]
The novel was set in the timber industry, where Hatfield had worked.[2]
The novel was serialised in the Sydney Morning Herald in 1936.[3]
The Bulletin called the novel "a conventional poor-boy-rich-girl romance which the author has made the vehicle of a considerable knowledge of the timber industry and of the lives of trees."[4]
The novel sold very well.[5]
Premise
Dale works as a tree feller and studies at university in an effort to be worthy of the love of a young woman. However his growing passion for re-forestation threatens to tear their romance apart.
Adaptation
In November 1935 it was announced Hatfield had been hired by Cinesound Films to adapt his story for a film.[6] Eventually Cinesound made Tall Timbers about the forestry industry but it was based on an original story by Frank Hurley.[7] [8]
See also
Notes and References
- News: "HERALD'S" NEW SERIAL. . . 30,620 . New South Wales, Australia . 22 February 1936 . 8 March 2024 . 11 . National Library of Australia.
- Geoffrey Serle, 'Hatfield, William (1892–1969)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hatfield-william-6598/text11359, published first in hardcopy 1983, accessed online 8 March 2024.
- News: BIG TIMBER. . . 30,622 . New South Wales, Australia . 25 February 1936 . 8 March 2024 . 4 . National Library of Australia.
- Web site: Hatfield . William . 18 November 1936 . "Reviewed Briefly" . 18 April 2024 . The Bulletin . 4.
- News: TO SEE HITLER AND MUSSOLINI . The Daily Telegraph . II . 167 . New South Wales, Australia . 2 October 1937 . 8 March 2024 . 3 . National Library of Australia.
- News: Ten New Australian Films . . 27,833 . Victoria, Australia . 2 November 1935 . 8 March 2024 . 26 . National Library of Australia.
- News: Notes on the Screen . . 27,836 . Victoria, Australia . 6 November 1935 . 8 March 2024 . 10 . National Library of Australia.
- Web site: Hatfield . William. 30 October 1935. "Cinesound Plans Reveal 14 Features for 1936 Production U.S. DIRECTOR FOR FOUR OUTDOOR SUBJECTS: KEN G. HALL STARTS FIRST DECEMBER 1." . 18 April 2024 . Everyones. 5.
