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Roy Darling

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Roy Darling (1884–1956) was an English-born Australian film director and producer who worked in the silent era. Before moving to Australia, he made several films in South Africa, and directed a documentary in India called Beasts in the Jungle (1918). He moved to Australia in 1922 and lost several hundred pounds of his own money investing in his own film, The Lust for Gold (1922).[1] He made a second feature Daughter of the East then mainly worked on documentaries and commercials. In 1947 he directed a few scenes for a proposed feature The Intimate Stranger which was never completed.[2]

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  1. ^ "FILM INDUSTRY". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 20 June 1927. p. 14. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
  2. ^ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 114
  3. ^ Copyright information at National Archives of Australia