Ernest Francis "Kodak" O'Ferrall (16 November 1881 – 22 March 1925) was an Australian journalist and writer, known for his comic sketches, short-stories and verse published under the pseudonym 'Kodak'.

He was widely-known for his humorous stories and verse published in the aforementioned journals and The Lone Hand, as well as collections in book form, often illustrated by artist colleagues.

[2] O'Ferrall's stories and verse were predominantly comic observations of working-class city life and his inclusion within the pages of The Bulletin helped to broaden the magazine's scope beyond what had been its previous emphasis on bush-themes.

[3] As his Bulletin colleague Arthur Adams commented after O'Ferrall's death: "The secret of his humour lay in the fact that he did not look down from a bleak aloofness at his subjects".

Adams described O'Ferrall as "a member of the universal family of suburbanites" and his "soul-sympathy with all the Bodgers of the suburban world... made him the subtle interpreter of that inarticulate class".

Ward proposed that Dalley provide the text and scenes, to which a producer could introduce "ballets, choruses, and other special turns", with the object of staging the revue if it proved suitable.

Shortly afterwards Ward informed Dalley that the J. C. Williamson company had purchased the performing rights of a London revue entitled 'Come Over Here', intending to stage it in Sydney.

After "Come Over Here' opened at the Her Majesty's Theatre in Sydney on 20 December 1913 it became apparent to the two writers that the company had inserted sections from their own revue into the production, thereby "substantially and materially" plagiarising their work.

[16] The evolving series of advertisements featured a character from the Indian sub-continent named "Chunder Loo, of Akim Foo", his bevy of cobras and his two companions, an anthropomorphic koala and a fox-terrier.

[18] During the pre-war years of the White Australia policy, the depiction of racial stereotypes was a routine comedic device for artists and writers.

[16] The advertisements proved to be so popular that in 1915 the proprietors of Cobra Boot Polish published a book entitled The Adventures of Chunder Loo, featuring O'Ferrall's verse and drawings by Lionel Lindsay.

[23][24] In 1919 the literary critic Bertram Stevens wrote: "Kodak writes of city folk (particularly of those who dwell in boarding houses), of curates, journalists, dejected husbands, and irritable suburbanites — some of whom relieve the tedium of existence by drink and perform, strange antics for the benefit of the sober".

[28] O'Ferrall's career, writing as 'Kodak', was primarily based upon his comic stories, sketches and verse set in an inner-city or suburban context, with characters inhabiting the boarding-house, office and pub.

[3] His Bulletin colleague Arthur Adams wrote: "Gathered at his graveside there were only personal friends and relations and brothers of the pen... all had loved this gentle soul, and knew he had served the community better than many a Prime Minister".