Pommy Arrives in Australia

Pommy Arrives in Australia is a 1913 Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford. The director's first comedy, and the first purely comic feature made in Australia,

It is considered a lost film.

Synopsis
An English immigrant is caught up in a series of comic incidents in Australia due to a trio of local tomboys.

According to contemporary accounts, two of the accounts were: "One day last week a new arrival, dressed in a conventional Nortolk jacket and a cap with the regulation check pattern, stepped out of a tramcar, and, quite Ignorant of the fact that Sydney possessed a careful Lord Mayor, absent-mindedly dropped his ticket upon the road. He was pounced upon by one of the City Council's uniformed officias, and there ensued a strenuous and mirth-provoking passage-at-arms between tho two. Later on the same 'Pommy' was seen out at La Ferouse, surrounded' by an excited horde oi fearful cannibals, all bent Upon testing imported stock"

Cast

 * Lottie Lyell
 * Tom Cosgrove
 * Tien Hogue
 * Helen Fergus

Production
There had been comic shorts made in Australia prior to this movie, such as Percy Gets a Job (1912) but this was the first feature-length comedy. Longford later went on to make the comedy short Ma Hogan's New Boarder.

Reception
The film only had a short run in cinemas and is among Longford's least known works.

The film appeared on a bill with two supporting Australian films Christmas in Australia and Whaling in Jervis Bay.