The Magic Shoes

The Magic Shoes
Directed by	Claude Flemming
Written by	Peggy Graham
Based on	the fairy tale Cinderella
Starring	Peter Finch
Cinematography	Mel Nichols
Release date	1935
Country	Australia
Language	English

The Magic Shoes is a 1935 Australian short film based on the fairy tale Cinderella. It features the first screen performance by Peter Finch and Helen Hughes, daughter of former Prime Minister William Hughes and was the first dramatised movie to be shot at the National Studios, built to make The Flying Doctor (1936).

Today The Magic Shoes is considered a lost film. However 33 production and publicity stills relating to the film were discovered in 2006.

The crew included future war photographer Damien Parer and among the cast were Phil Smith, father of actor Mona Barrie, and a number of children who were students at an acting school run by director Claude Flemming with Frank Harvey.

The film failed to find a distributor and was not a financial success.

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