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The Flying Doctor, the Glossary

The Flying Doctor is a 1936 Australian-British drama film directed by Miles Mander and starring Charles Farrell, Mary Maguire and James Raglan.^[1]

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Australian aviation films
Films directed by Miles Mander
Rediscovered Australian films

Aviation

Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry.

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BFI National Archive

The BFI National Archive is a department of the British Film Institute, and one of the largest film archives in the world.

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Charles Farrell

Charles David Farrell (August 9, 1900 – May 6, 1990) was an American film actor whose height was in the 1920s and 1930s and the Mayor of Palm Springs from 1947 to 1955.

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Don Bradman

Sir Donald George Bradman (27 August 1908 – 25 February 2001), nicknamed "The Don", was an Australian international cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time.

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Figtree, New South Wales

Figtree is an inner western suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.

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Film poster

A film poster is a poster used to promote and advertise a film primarily to persuade paying customers into a theater to see it.

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Gaumont-British

The Gaumont-British Picture Corporation produced and distributed films and operated a cinema chain in the United Kingdom.

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General Film Distributors

General Film Distributors (GFD), later known as J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors and Rank Film Distributors Ltd., was a British film distribution company based in London.

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Hugh Denison

Sir Hugh Robert Denison KBE, originally Hugh Robert Dixson (11 November 1865 – 25 November 1940) was a businessman, parliamentarian and philanthropist in South Australia and later New South Wales.

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J. O. C. Orton

Captain John Overton Cone Orton (30 August 1889 – May 1962) was a British screenwriter.

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James Raglan

James Raglan (6 January 1901 – 15 November 1961) was a British stage, film and television actor.

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Joe Valli

Joseph George McParlane (also spelled McFarlane and McPharlane; August 13, 1885 – May 29, 1967), known as Joe Valli, was a Scottish-Australian actor who worked in vaudeville and films.

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Lost film

A lost film is a feature or short film in which the original negative or copies are not known to exist in any studio archive, private collection, or public archive.

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Margaret Leila Vyner, also known by her married name Margaret Williams (3 December 1914 in Armidale, New South Wales – 30 October 1993 in Reading, England) was an Australian-born model and actress who appeared in British films.

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Mary Maguire

Mary Maguire (born Ellen Theresa Maguire 22 February 1919) was an Australian-born actress who briefly became a Hollywood and British film star in the late 1930s.

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Maudie Edwards

Elizabeth Maud Edwards (16 October 1906 – 24 March 1991), professionally known as Maudie Edwards, was a Welsh actress, radio broadcaster, comedian, dancer and singer, best remembered for having spoken the first line of dialogue in soap opera Coronation Street, and playing Elsie Lappin in the first two episodes.

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Miles Mander

Miles Mander (born Lionel Henry Mander; 14 May 1888 – 8 February 1946), was an English character actor of the early Hollywood cinema, also a film director and producer, and a playwright and novelist.

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National Film and Sound Archive

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting, and providing access to a national collection of film, television, sound, radio, video games, new media, and related documents and artefacts.

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Nitrocellulose

Nitrocellulose (also known as cellulose nitrate, flash paper, flash cotton, guncotton, pyroxylin and flash string, depending on form) is a highly flammable compound formed by nitrating cellulose through exposure to a mixture of nitric acid and sulfuric acid.

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Outback

The Outback is a remote, vast, sparsely populated area of Australia.

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Oxy-fuel welding and cutting

Principle of burn cutting Oxy-fuel welding (commonly called oxyacetylene welding, oxy welding, or gas welding in the United States) and oxy-fuel cutting are processes that use fuel gases (or liquid fuels such as gasoline or petrol, diesel, biodiesel, kerosene, etc) and oxygen to weld or cut metals.

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Pagewood Studios

Pagewood Studios was a film studio in Sydney, Australia, that was used to make Australian, British and Hollywood films for 20 years.

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Robert J. Flaherty

Robert Joseph Flaherty, (February 16, 1884 – July 23, 1951) was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film, Nanook of the North (1922).

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Royal Flying Doctor Service

The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS), commonly known as the Flying Doctor, is an air medical service in Australia.

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Sound film

A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film.

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Sunday Mail (Adelaide)

The Sunday Mail (originally titled The Mail) is an Adelaide newspaper first published on 4 May 1912 by Clarence P. Moody.

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The Advertiser (Adelaide)

The Advertiser is a daily tabloid format newspaper based in the city of Adelaide, South Australia.

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The Courier-Mail

The Courier-Mail is an Australian newspaper published in Brisbane.

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The Muswellbrook Chronicle and Upper Hunter advertiser

The Muswellbrook Chronicle and Upper Hunter advertiser is a newspaper published in Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia since 1872.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.

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The West Australian

The West Australian is the only locally edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia.

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Wellington Times

The Wellington Times is a newspaper published in Wellington, New South Wales, Australia since 1889.

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William Hartnell

William Henry Hartnell (8 January 1908 – 23 April 1975) was an English actor, who is best known for playing the original incarnation of the Doctor, in the long-running British science-fiction television series Doctor Who from 1963 to 1966; he reprised the role in 1972–1973.

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20th Century Studios

20th Century Studios, Inc. is an American film studio owned by the Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, in turn a division of The Walt Disney Company.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Doctor

The Flying Doctor, the Glossary

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See also

Australian aviation films

Films directed by Miles Mander

Rediscovered Australian films

References