This picture was one of fifty Australian films selected for preservation as part of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's Kodak / Atlab Cinema Collection Restoration Project.
This filmed adaptation of 'The Getting of Wisdom' novel by Henry Handel Richardson was made and released about sixty-eight years after the novel had been first published in 1910.
Approximatley six thousand girls were auditioned to play the parts of the turn-of-the-century college school girls in this film.
Comedian Barry Humphries is cast against type in this film and plays a rare straight role - as a vicar.