Picnic at Hanging Rock - clip 2

Short clip, provided for non-commercial/educational use only. 1975

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Film & Animation

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• Australia

[Nicecatholicgirl]

"Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place."

[crystalblue83]

it was a story, but I remember reading it at school in english and apparently the only actual 'fact' in it was that a couple of school girls/school mistress did disappear around the area, their bodies were never found. apparenty the author actually wrote an end to it (that involved the girls being lured into the dreamtime by aboriginal spirits) but the publisher convinced her to leave it out. (what we were told while studying it anyway.)

[pinkdevil97]

I just don't know why the 4th girl screamed and didn't follow the other girls to see where they were going, at least look behind the rock?

[MobiusPublishing]

@mcouzijn Well spotted! As Adams has been asked many times over the years to describe, both in text and spoken word, his relationship to the story and to Lady Lindsay, whom he still regards with great fondness, I suspect his account is a well-worn framework, with a few improvisations along the way depending on the day of the week!

[mcouzijn]

@MobiusPublishing Thanks again for pointing me in these directions. Funny thing is, that I just found Adam's story (in quite similar words) on the net, in a text dated 2001. YouTube does not allow to include hyperlinks, but please repair this link and check it out: bit ly / n58wax

[MobiusPublishing]

@mcouzijn I suspect that the hard evidence you seek is in the hands of her literary agent and her estate's solicitors, who still represent her interests. It would be reasonable to think that if the published assertion made by John Taylor of her authorship of the eighteenth chapter was false, it would have resulted in correction through the courts. However, it has remained unchallenged to this day. Adam's friendship to Lady Lindsay is undeniable and he is a commentator of impeccable standing.

[mcouzijn]

@MobiusPublishing Being skeptic is good, but I don't want to be stubborn or at odd with evident facts. Yet I feel that I don't ask too much. I ask for evidence that proves, beyond reasonable doubt, that Lindsay wrote that '18th chapter' and that the editor's story is based in fact. Hearsay simply won't do. Do you believe Philip Adams for 100%, when he claims that he had 'found the solution' and that Lindsay had said "yes, you are right"? Even so, Adams's 'solution' differs from the 18th chapter.

[mcouzijn]

@MobiusPublishing I don't understand how what she says in that interview is in any way an indication, let alone 'proof', of her having written that so-called '18th chapter'. When you write that Lindsay 'had formed a different view', do you mean different from a view she held before? I agree that her ideas as expressed in the interview are worlds apart from the '18th chapter' 'solution'. But that does not prove that Lindsay 'was unhappy with that chapter'. She might as well have never seen it!

[mcouzijn]

@MobiusPublishing Thank you for pointing me to this indeed interesting interview. The question of the 18th chapter is only slightly addressed at the end, and just by Cliff Green. Apart from his viewpoint that it is badly written and shouldn't have been published, he repeats the story of how it is supposedly left by Joan Lindsay to her publisher, who is supposed to have convinced her earlier on to *not* publish it. Do you agree that this is again mere hearsay, most probably from the same source?

[MobiusPublishing]

@MobiusPublishing My point on the 1974 interview was not to suggest that she had written a solution but that she had formed a different point of view on how the story might impact those who came after it; at variance with that which was expressed in the eighteenth chapter. Hers seemed a prospective view and that seems to be supported by those opinions from those around her that suggest that she was unhappy with the eighteenth chapter.

[MobiusPublishing]

@hminkema Your skepticism is admirable. However there is evidence in the form of a radio interview with a close friend of Lady Lindsay's, Philip Adams, and the screenwriter of the motion picture, Cliff Green, from July of this year. Both these men had no vested interests in the publishing industry and reveal much about the woman, and discuss the eighteenth chapter, in this interview. I will PM you the URL and invite you to consider it.

[hminkema]

@MobiusPublishing Obviously, Lindsay's publisher had a great (financial) interest in keeping the audience's interest in this novel, and in a potential 'extra chapter' which would increase the sales. Therefore it would be naive to take the word of this publisher or his co-workers for fact. Where is the material evidence? Where are Lindsay's notes on the matter? Has any material research been done on the typoscript? Maybe it is true, but it might well be a hoax. We can't tell just yet.