Austral Photoplay Company

The Austral Photoplay Company was a short lived Australian production and distribution company. It was established in Melbourne in 1913 by A.C. Tinsdale and later transferred to Sydney in 1917. It initially sought to raise ₤10,000 to make a film about the goldfields.

It raised funds to make movies via public subscription; people would pay for the right to appear in the film. They later purchased the negatives of films made by the Australian Film Syndicate in 1911-12.

In 1917 Tinsdale shot footage for a feature in Ballarat called Women and Gold which was never completed.

The company was still trying to raise funds in 1919 and also later in 1920, under another name.