Photo Play Artiste
Miss Lottie Lyell (1890-1925)

The NFSA Owls are pleased to now post a reading copy of Photo Play Artiste: Miss Lottie Lyell 1890 – 1925.

With Appreciation to the National Film and Sound Archive, under whose banner, as Screen Sound Australia, this work was first published in print format.

Launched in 2000 by Producer Anthony Buckley AO at the NFSA Headquarters in Canberra, the publication was given an Honourable Mention by the Centre for Australian Cultural Studies Awards at Manning Clark House on Friday 19 January 2001.

In the years since first release, Photo Play Artiste has served as a research and reference point for the significant career of Miss Lottie Edith Cox, known professionally as Lottie Lyell.

The history of Australia’s Silent Cinema is all the richer for Lottie’s achievements as Producer, Actress, Writer, Director and Editor.

Marilyn Sue Dooley 2025

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Is the National Film and Sound Archive
Australia’s most haunted building?

Graphic courtesy of Andrew Dyson

Dr Jeff Brownrigg presents his book Heaven, Earth and Canberra (2023) in serialised form, with a new chapter offered to readers every two weeks. The first offering also contains a Foreword by Tim the Yowie Man, a well known Canberra personality, Ghost tour guide and author of Haunted and Mysterious Australia.

The Table of Contents below shows all of the chapters to be offered, with links to available chapters underlined and black.

Contents

Foreword by Tim the Yowie Man

Preface: A Guide to some of Canberra’s busiest Ghosts

Prologue: An overview. The Bare Bones of a Haunting

Introduction: Granny Dwyer’s Conversations with the Dead