• Title
  Forty thousand horsemen photographs, 1940 / Charles Chauvel
• Creator
  Charles Chauvel, 1897-1959
• Call number
  PXA 1139
  ON 311
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1940
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  825721
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  13 photographic prints - gelatin silver (11 copy) - 20 x 25 cm., 12 x 16.5 cm.
  9 negatives - gelatin silver - 20 x 25 cm., 12 x 16.5 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  For a biography of Chips Rafferty, see the Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition under: Goffage, John William Pilbean [Chips Rafferty] (1909 - 1971)
• Scope and Content
  ORIGINAL NEGATIVES & COPY PHOTOGRAPHS
  1. Rafferty, Taylor and Twohill with Arab on a camel
  2. Rafferty, Taylor and Twohill
  3-6. Studio portraits of Rafferty in Light Horse uniform
  7. Film still of Rafferty and Taylor sitting in the sand smoking
  8-9. Film still of two-up scene
  10-11. Rafferty, Taylor and Twohill on donkeys and saluting
  
  ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS
  12. Film still of Rafferty in uniform with cigarette paper
  13. Charles and Elsa Chauvel with cinematographer and actors dressed as Australian soldiers in World War II
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment - Applies to: ON 311
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Reference:
  
  Australian film, 1900-1977 : a guide to feature film production / by Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper. Melb. : OUP, 1980 (pp. 250-254)
• General note
  
  A typescript poem “Fact or fantasy” inscribed to Mrs Chauvel, signed and dated “Chips Rafferty 1940” transferred to Mitchell Manuscripts, Sept 1991 (MLMSS 5502)
  Digital order no:Album ID : 944062
• Alphanumeric designations
  
  PXA 1139/7 is original film still no.77
  PXA 1139/8 is original film still no.36
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  “Rafferty” inscribed in pencil on the reverse of PXA 1139/12
• Name
  Forty thousand horsemen (film)
  Chauvel, Charles, 1897-1959
  Chauvel, Elsa, 1898-1983
  Twohill, Pat
  Taylor, Grant, 1917-1971
  
• Subject
  Rafferty, Chips, 1909-1971--Photographs.
  Motion pictures, Australian.
  Motion picture actors and actresses.
  Motion picture producers and directors, Australian--20th century.
  Adult Males
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE16753531

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