According to novelist Arthur Wright, "A local draper put a lot of money into it, and lost it; though all the films produced were not 'duds.'
[6] An advertisement of June 1911 pushing The Octoroon said the company had also made The Shadow of the Rockies, Black Talbot and Diamond Cross.
[7][8] In June 1911, the actor EB Williams was reported as working for them.
[11] There was a fire at the Melbourne office of the JD Williams Australian Film Company in November 1911.
[13][14] (Another Australian Film Company appeared to emerge in following years).