Rip Van Winkle (1912 film)

Rip Van Winkle is a 1912 Australian featurelength film directed by W. J. Lincoln about Rip Van Winkle. It was arguably Australias first fantasy film.

The film was made in the wake of a successful Australian season of Joseph Jefferson and Dion Boucicaults theatre adaptation of Washington Irvings story.One reviewer said that star Arthur Styan has figured in several of the previous productions of the Amalgamated Pictures Ltd., and who makes quite a success of this. ........

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