High society girl Margery Paton (Elsa Chauvel) leaves the city to live on her father's cattle property, run by "Greenhide Gavin" (Bruce Gordon). She carries romantic notions of the bush, of "being swung to the saddle by big brown arms", but Greenhide Gavin is initially only annoyed by her presence. Greenhide contains a blossoming romance, and the thwarting of a plot to steal cattle.
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Greenhide is a 1926 Australian film directed by Charles Chauvel. Only part of the film survives today.
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The classic Australian bush carpentry image is the forked tree trunk used as an upright. Nails, bolts or screws were often not available; wooden pegs, wire, or strips of greenhide might be used as fasteners. Greenhide strips might also be used as hinges for doors or shutters. Ron Edwards comments that 'Fencing wire was a very popular resource because it was always available.
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Greenhide, in its original form, was 8000 feet long, but today only 2475 feet of 35mm film survive (37 mins at 18 frames per second).
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Greenhide was screened throughout most of Queensland without the use of a distribution agency. Charles and Elsa Chauvel personally transported prints of the film from town to town, and tried to convince theatre owners to replace booked American films with a local alternative. Prior to each screening, Elsa would provide a dramatic monologue and introduction. In Brisbane and Sydney, Greenhide screened through distributor Hoyts, and broke records in Brisbane.
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In Greenhide a city girl struggles to cope on a cattle station and gradually finds love with her polar opposite, an extremely taciturn bushman. Like Moonbi the film was made in Harrisville near Brisbane, enlisting the locals as extras and using locations around his family property "Summerlands", near the edge of town. While making Greenhide he met Elsa May Wilcox (professional name Elsa Sylvaney), an actress, whom he married in 1927. After their marriage she traveled with him and assisted him on all his films.
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In addition to starring in Greenhide, Elsa Chauvel was a frequent collaborator in her husband's work and was active in various behind-the-scenes roles. She had traveled with Charles following the creation of Greenhide, to local exhibitors to show their film even though it cost them a great deal to play their own instead of larger American films. Elsa often referred to herself as a "Girl Friday," but it has been remarked that "her occasional credits on the films do not do justice to her endless contributions." At first, Elsa's contributions were uncredited.
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The folk song Stringbark and Greenhide describes successful bush carpentry using both these materials: > If you want to build a hut, to keep out wind and weather, > Stringy bark will make it snug, and keep it well together; > Greenhide, if it's used by you, will make it all the stronger, > For if you tie it with greenhide, it's sure to last the longer. The folk song Old Bark Hut is of another opinion: > In the summertime when the weather's warm this hut is nice and cool > And you'll find the gentle breezes blowing in through every hole > You can leave the old door open or you can leave it shut > There's no fear of suffocation in the old bark hut In an old bark hut in an > old bark hut > There's no fear of suffocation in the old bark hut.There are many > variations in the words of these songs. See Edwards, Ron. 1991.
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The Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton) report 30 June 1926 The artists who were filming "Greenhide" on Walloon Station were among those present.Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton) 15 July 1926 On 21 December 1928, the film was the first film shown at the (now heritage-listed) Majestic Picture Theatre in Malanda, Queensland.
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Accessed on 3 December 2010. at St James Church, Sydney, the ceremony officiated by Charles' brother, the Reverend John Chauvel. On-location filming took place at Walloon Station in Dawson Valley, Queensland. The production encampment, a collection of tents accommodating twenty people, was informally named "Camp Greenhide" by locals.
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The section from Linville to Benarkin is rough gravel with some rocky sections. The trail from Benarkin to Blackbutt features a compact gravel road. There are a number of crossings at Boundary, Greenhide and Blackbutt creeks that are moderately steep (up to 30 per cent) with slopes up to 40 metres in length. There are gradually rising grades up the range to Blackbutt.
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This wall was about high, wide at the base and wide at the top. Dubbed the "Great Wall of Jimbour", its construction proved to be a feat of human perseverance. The stony ground of the ridge meant that bullocks needed to be continuously shod and the workmen were forced to lace greenhide to their boots. The difficult terrain and extent of the wall would have made it a time-consuming task.
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The bullock-whip was used by an Australian bullock team driver (bullocky). The thong was long, or more, and often made of greenhide. A long handle was cut from spotted gum or another native tree and was frequently taller than the bullock driver's shoulder. The bullocky walked beside the team and kept the bullocks moving with taps from the long handle as well as using the thong as needed.
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Elsa first met her future-husband Charles Chauvel in 1926, following a performance of the musical Crackers at the Cremorne Theatre in Brisbane, Queensland. Charles was scouting for a leading lady for his second film, Greenhide. Though initially reluctant to audition for the part, she was persuaded by Charles to give a screentest, and was cast for the role. Charles and Elsa were married on 5 June 1927, at St James Church, Sydney.
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The film was highly popular in Queensland but it fared less well in the Southern states. Despite this, the movie made a reported profit of £1,300 and Chauvel made another film for the company, Greenhide (1926). Mabel Forrest was very pleased with the film. On 7 July 1926 "The Moth of Moombi" was screened at the RSL Hall in the town of Castle Creek (now called Theodore), which was part of the Dawson Valley Irrigation Scheme.
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Elsa Chauvel, (née Elsie May Wilcox; 10 February 1898 – 22 August 1983) was an Australian filmmaker and actress, and the wife and collaborator of film director Charles Chauvel. Elsa Chauvel was a pioneer in Australian film making, best known for her contributions to films such as Greenhide, In the Wake of the Bounty, and Jedda. Her legacy in Australian film was celebrated with the creation of the Chauvel Award, dedicated to the work of Elsa and Charles Chauvel, which honours Australian excellence in film.
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Harry was a typical teamster - hard working and hard living. Evidence of both his life and work exist in the Langenbaker house in the form of personal memorabilia and tools of his trade. Harry, unlike many others, continued to work as a teamster up until 1922 at which time he pulled his wagon to its final resting place at the side of the house and passed the time by making skewers for the local butcher and greenhide whips. In contrast, his wife Mary Ann was ladylike and dainty.
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Unlike the American equivalent (Florida Cow Whip which is made of inexpensive nylon) an Australian stockwhip is usually made of redhide or sometimes greenhide leather but can also be made of kangaroo hide. Because a kangaroo is a native animal, and cattle are a lot cheaper and abundant, kangaroo hide stockwhips are more expensive. Only the most expensive whips are made from kangaroo hide and they often have a fully plaited handle. Kangaroo hide allows the whip maker to produce the fine plaits for which the kangaroo leather stockwhip is renowned.
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Gold yields from Golden Gate Consols, 1904 This mine was known initially as Golden Gate No.8 North and is located at the western end of the Golden Gate complex, between Rogers Gully and Golden Gate Creek. A reef, located at in 1893, produced of gold that year. In 1894 the mine was sold to an English company, Croydon Consols Limited (nominal capital of in 400,000 shares), for , to be paid in instalments. The new company managed the mine well, straightening and timbering the shaft, erecting a headframe and introducing steel buckets in place of greenhide.
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1, Weldon Russell Publishing, Willoughby, 1989, A bullock whip had a stick handle that was cut from a spotted gum or another native tree and was approximately six or seven feet long. The long handled whip permitted the bullocky to control his bullocks while keeping a safe working distance from the danger of being run down by a large dray or jinker. The thong, often made of plaited greenhide, was 8 to 10 feet long and attached to the handle by a leather loop. These thongs, graduated in thickness from the handle down to the size of a lead pencil at the fall, which was about 2 ½ feet long.
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Greenhide was Charles Chauvel's second film, following The Moth of Moonbi (1926), and his final silent film. Chauvel scouted his leading lady, then Elsie May Wilcox, after seeing her in a stage musical called Crackers at the Cremorne Theatre in Brisbane, Queensland.Chauvel Carlsson, Susanne (1989) Charles & Elsa Chauvel: Movie Pioneers, University of Queensland Press Though she was reluctant at first to audition, Chauvel convinced her to perform a screentest, and ultimately offered her the role. The pair began a romantic relationship over the course of filming, and Charles and Elsa were married on 5 June 1927,"Chauvel, Elsa (1898–1983)", Australian Dictionary of Biography: Online Edition.
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This was providing prime fresh beef, at sixpence per pound, to the men at the nearby gold diggings and at the port at Wyndham. The station manager in 1891 was Sam Croker (also known as "Greenhide Sam") who was described as "as thorough a bushman as can be found in all of Australia". It was Croker that also provided the name of the station when he suggested it after being struck by the sharp undulations of the plateau. Buchanan put the property up for auction in 1894, advertising the property as being of high open downs, basalt plains with rich black soil covered in with Mitchell grass. Wave Hill was stocked with horses and 15,000 head of cattle, of which 8,000 bullocks were ready for market.
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The term "kangaroo Western" is used in an article about The Man from Snowy River (1982) in that year, and Stuart Cunningham refers to Charles Chauvel’s Greenhide (1926) as a “kangaroo Western” in 1989.Note: This refers to a citation in Peter Limbrick's Making Settler Cinemas: Film and Colonial Encounters in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand (2010), which in turn refers to an article by Stuart Cunningham entitled "The decades of survival: Australian film 1930-1970", in The Australian Screen (ed. Albert Moran and Tom o'Regan, 1989), as per this citation. Grayson Cooke attributes the first use of the term "meat-pie Western" to Eric Reade in his History and Heartburn (1979),Eric Reade, History and heartburn: the saga of Australian film, 1896-1978, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1979 p 294 referring to Russell Hagg's Raw Deal (1977).
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On 19 August 1841, the Balfour brothers - John, Charles and Robert, took up Colinton run which included the present site of the town of Linville. The Balfours originally intended to build their homestead where Linville now stands but decided to establish it instead about to the south, near where Emu Creek enters the Brisbane River. During their occupancy of Colinton the Balfours built stockyards on the north bank of Greenhide Creek near its junction with the Brisbane River. The yards became known as "Nine Mile Yards". By about 1886 a small private township grew up at the spot and the Nine Mile Receiving Office opened there in 1898. The name was used up till 1901. Surveyor E.M. Waraker laid out a town at Nine Mile and the plans of sections 2 to 7 of the town, to be known as Linton, were lodged with the Survey office on 6 December 1901. Linton was situated about south east of where Linville now stands.
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