Australian Life Biograph Company
The Australian Life Biograph Company was a short lived Australian film production company in the silent era. It funded many of the early films of Gaston Mervale and Louise Lovely.

The company was formed in 1911 with capital of £6,000 and was based in Sydney. It produced eight feature films in total, all directed by Mervale, who used a stock company of actors including Lovely (then known as Louise Carbasse), Jerome Partick, Godfrey Cass and Harry Beaumont. Movies were shot at Biograph's glass-roofed studio in Manly, New South Wales.

In the words of film historians Graham Shirley and Brian Adams "the subjects chosen were predominantly colonial, with no less than six featuring prison themes, usually with an innocent man receiving a pardon or making his escape." Most of them also  had a strongly Australian flavour.

At one stage the company was earning over £300 a week and employing six lecturers to accompany the films. However they had trouble finding a market for their work and the company later wound up and merged into Universal Films Ltd in 1912.

Filmography
One Hundred Years Ago (1911)
A Ticket in Tatts (1911)
The Colleen Bawn (1911)
A Tale of the Australian Bush (1911)
Hands Across the Sea (1912)
A Daughter of Australia (1912)
Conn, the Shaughraun (1912)
The Ticket of Leave Man (1912)

References

External links
Australian Life Biograph Company at IMDb

1910s in Australian cinema
Companies based in Sydney
Mass media companies established in 1911
Australian companies established in 1911
Mass media companies disestablished in 1912
1912 disestablishments in Australia