Thring, the first Australian narrative film to be completed with an optical soundtrack and part of the first all-Australian full-length unit programme to be screened in Australia.
[1][3][4] The film is a matrimonial comedy, that featured the dramatic reunion of lovers on London Bridge.
However that movie encountered censorship problems and A Co-respondent's Course, although shot later, was selected to support Diggers instead.
Thring, later wrote that the film was "heavy-going": The lack of action in many of its dialogue scenes is exacerbated by the static single-take camera work, and by an excessive concern with circumstantial realism that produces 'book-ends' of extended hellos and goodbyes in many scenes, and excruciatingly prolonged telephone calls in which phone numbers are always carefully enunciated and there are long pauses while the caller listens patiently to someone whom we cannot see or hear.
[8]Fitzpatrick though the movie was partly redeemed by making fun of the absurdity of its male characters and use of external locations.