Overview
Plot
The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) marks the birth of Australian cinema and the feature film format. Only fragments of the original hour-plus production survive, preserved at the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra.
- Directors
- Charles Tait
- Cast
- Elizabeth Tait, John Tait
- Country
- Australia
- Genre
- Crime, Drama, Action, History
- Release date
- 1906-12-26
- Studios
- Johnson and Gibson, J. & N. Tait
Plot
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The Story of the Kelly Gang Plot and Cast
The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) is a landmark of early cinema, symbolizing both the birth of the Australian film industry and the emergence of a distinct Australian cinema identity. It also heralds the feature film format. However, only fragments of the original production, which ran more than one hour, are known to exist, preserved at the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra. Reconstruction efforts have made the film available to modern audiences.
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