One Hundred Years Ago is a 1911 Australian silent film directed by Gaston Mervale. It features an early screen performance from Louise Lovely (billed as "Louise Carbasse") and is considered a lost film.
The movie was billed as "an Anglo-Australian romantic drama".[3] Jasper Hugh Lovel is sent to prison at Norfolk Island for a crime he did not commit. A woman in England who loves him manages to secure his pardon and they are reunited.[4]
Unlike many Australian films of the time, it was an original script, not based on a play. The author was Patrick William Marony.
The story is founded on fact. In an old cell at Norfolk Island may be seen the following inscription: "I, Jasper Hugh Lovel, here proclaim, before God and man, I am innocent. May God avenge me on mine enemy."[7]
One of those costume playlets, which require a deal of patience, knowledge of the
period, and considerable skill to produce. In Mr. Mervalc all these, factors are embraced, and his work is stamped on every foot of the thousands offeet of film... Attention to tho dressing, atmosphere of the early period, and mise en scene, has been minute, iuid the results presented with clarity.[8]
^"Advertising". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 22, 875. New South Wales, Australia. 8 May 1911. p. 2. Retrieved 3 June 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
^Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p19
^""100 YEARS AGO," AT LYCEUM". Daily Telegraph. Vol. XXXI, no. 143. Tasmania, Australia. 17 June 1911. p. 4. Retrieved 3 June 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
