[1][2][3] Peggy Morton (Susan Denis) works as the star of a touring tent show in rural Queensland when she is offered the lead in the first Australian talking film, being made in the Blue Mountains.
A rival, Mona Blake (Sadie Bedford) tells her that the offer has been withdrawn and takes the job instead.
He returned to Sydney in October 1929 with plans to make a sound movie using a sound-on-disc recording system.
[1] By the time the film was read for trade screening in January 1931, the sound-on-disc system was out of date and Dawn tried to transfer the sound to an optical track.
[1] Uncle George Saunders later declared bankruptcy and complained about Dawn: The directors [of Australian Talkies] borrowed £1,400.