How We Beat the Emden

How We Fought the Emden is a 1915 Australian silent film directed by Alfred Rolfe about the Battle of Cocos during World War I. It features footage shot on Cocos Island.

The film was popular at the box office. Actor C. Post Mason took a print with him to Canada in 1916 and screened the film over there. It was also known as How We Fought the Emden andy The SydneyEmden Fight.The Motion Picture News said the film was put on principally with the idea of drawing patrons from For Australia and was merely a succession of interest and topical subjects woven together, and a plot that does not reflect much credit on either the author or producers. ........

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