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.
The production shoot for this film ran for six weeks.
The name of this film's source novelist Henry Handel Richardson is actually a pseudonym for the writer's real name of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson. As such, this film about college school girls at the turn-of-the-century in a boarding school was actually written by a woman, and not a man, as the nom de plume suggests.
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.