| Pommy Arrives in Australia | |
| Director: | Raymond Longford[1] |
| Cinematography: | Franklyn Barrett |
| Studio: | Fraser Film Release and Photographic Company |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | Silent film English intertitles |
Pommy Arrives in Australia is a 1913 Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford. The director's first comedy, and the first purely comic feature made in Australia,[2] [3]
It is considered a lost film.
An English immigrant is caught up in a series of comic incidents in Australia due to a trio of local tomboys.[4]
According to contemporary accounts, two of the accounts were: "One day last week a newarrival, dressed in a conventional Nortolk jacket and a cap with the regulation check pattern, stepped out of a tramcar, and, quite Ignorant of the fact that Sydney possessed acareful Lord Mayor, absent-mindedly dropped his ticket upon the road. He was pounced uponby one of the City Council's uniformed officias, and there ensued a strenuous and mirth-provoking passage-at-arms between tho two. Later on the same 'Pommy' was seen out at LaFerouse, surrounded' by an excited horde oi fearful cannibals, all bent Upon testing imported stock"
There had been comic shorts made in Australia prior to this movie, such as Percy Gets a Job (1912) but this was the first feature-length comedy.[2] Longford later went on to make the comedy short Ma Hogan's New Boarder.
The film only had a short run in cinemas and is among Longford's least known works.[5]
The film appeared on a bill with two supporting Australian films Christmas in Australia and Whaling in Jervis Bay.