Nambour Chronicle and North Coast Advertiser (Qld. : 1922 - 1954), Friday 19 November 1926, page 10


'Greenhide.'

QUEENSLAND COMPANY'S SECOND PRODUCTION.RELEASED RELEASED THIS MONTH.

??jntnhide.' the second Western ffaturt; film to be produced for tne Oueensiand Company .'Australian Film Productions, Ltd.) by Chark's Chauv.-!. is now complete, and arranaeiiifnts are beinsr made for its Drpmi^r

screening in Brisbane on November 20. at His Majesty's Theatre. The illm w purely a Queensland production, that is. only Queensland material has been us^tl in the makini of this lilm play, which ranks as the most ambitious work yet undertaken to produe; a big Western film in Australia, in ord-r to secure the most faithful hackirrounds. there had to be transported and housed a troupe of 20 artisls and technical experts, with all necessary equipment, a distance or 500 mites to Walloon Station in th' Iiawson Valley, where they were encamped five w?efcs. Eighty miles from the Hannes Railway station, and thirty miles from Banana in the Dawson Valley, at the old station of Walloon. Chas. Chauvel pitched his camp for the filming of the station scenes. HU little calico village was christened 'Camp Greenhide' by those In the Valley. It possessed the following features: — \ camp of srs marquees, a wellconstructed and roomy meal and commissariat hut, a community tent, a we!!-mted cook's pallev, water laid on by windmill and tanks, and flvevalve wireless set installed br tn» cameraman. '