• Source: The Magic Shoes (1935 film)

      • The Magic Shoes is a 1935 Australian short film based on the fairy tale Cinderella. It features the first screen performance by Peter Finch and Helen Hughes, daughter of former Prime Minister William Hughes and was the first dramatised movie to be shot at the National Studios, built to make The Flying Doctor (1936).
      Today The Magic Shoes is considered a lost film. However 33 production and publicity stills relating to the film were discovered in 2006.


      Premise


      A "pantomine fantasy".


      Cast


      Peter Finch as Prince Charming
      Gloria Gotch
      Helen Hughes
      Norman French
      Sheilah Parry as the fairy princess
      Andrew Higginson as the policeman
      Phil Smith
      Peter Dawson as the equerry
      Bertie Wright as the jester
      George Hurt
      Carleton Stuart


      Production


      It was the first production from Pacific Productions. This was a new company capitalised at £10,000 headed by George Wirth, a wealthy circus personality, which wanted to focus on making shorts.
      The crew included future war photographer Damien Parer and among the cast were Phil Smith, father of actor Mona Barrie; Peter Dawson, a New Zealand comedian, dancer and eccentric dancer; Helen Hughes, daughter of Billy Hughe; Peter Finch; and a number of children who were students at an acting school run by director Claude Flemming with Frank Harvey.
      Filming finished by November 1935. It was originally scheduled for 11 days and finished in eight.
      Editing was completed the following month.


      Reception


      The film failed to find a distributor and was not a financial success.


      See also


      List of lost films


      References




      External links


      The Magic Shoes at IMDb
      The Magic Shoes at National Film and Sound Archive – includes copies of stills
      Images from film

    Kata Kunci Pencarian: