The Swagman's Story is a 1914 short film directed by Raymond Longford.
[3] Longford claimed the film was refused a release by "the Combine" who dominated Australian exhibition.
He then goes on to explain why – ten years earlier he was living happily with his wife and pretty daughter (Lottie Lyell).
Then the daughter marries a "swell city cove" and she becomes a member of the high society set, refusing to meet her unsophisticated mother.
The mother is killed by a motor car and the father takes to drinking and becomes a swagman.