| The Day | |
| Director: | Alfred Rolfe |
| Producer: | Archie Fraser Colin Fraser |
| Based On: | poem by Henry Chappell |
| Studio: | Fraser Film Release and Photographic Company |
| Language: | Silent film English intertitles |
| Country: | Australia |
The Day is a 1914 Australian silent film directed by Alfred Rolfe.[1] It is a propaganda film about German brutality in Europe during World War I. It is considered a lost film.[2]
Archie Fraser, who produced, called it "Der Tag, a little one-act scene, to be played whilst the celebrated poem by the English railway porter on The Day was being recited."[3]
The Fraser brothers were two distributors and exhibitors who occasionally dabbled in production. They had just made a number of films with Raymond Longford but he had left and Alfred Rolfe became their in-house director instead.
The script was adapted from a popular poem by railway porter Henry Chappell. The screenplay was written by actor Johnson Weir. Weir would recite the poem during screenings.[2]
Actor Jame Martin played a Belgian civilian attacked by two German soldiers. During filming he was struck by a bayonet and had to be treated at St Vincents Hospital.[4]
The Referee wrote that the film " is a theme patriotic from opening to end, and it promises to prove a crowded house magnet."[5]