Tony Martin-Jones' film history notes

Topics in the history of the first motion pictures shown and produced in Australia, India, and New Caledonia

Getting to the truth after decades of unchecked nonsense.

• Carl Hertz in Australia – the first projected motion pictures in Australia
• Marius Sestier in India – the first motion pictures in India
• Marius Sestier in Australia – the first motion pictures filmed in Australia
• The meeting of Marius Sestier and H. Walter Barnett – not what's in the history books
• The films of the Melbourne Cup, 1896 – the most well-known first Australian films
• Patineur Grotesque – the rediscovery of what may be Australia's earliest film
• The film of the 1897 Victoria Racing Club Derby – not of the 1897 Melbourne Cup
• The Joly-Normandin Biographe in Australia and South Africa
• Henry Walter Barnett and the first Australia motion pictures – what did he do?
• The first cinema in Australia
• The 1897-1898 cricket test match films – not what some were advertised as
• Wybert Reeve's Australasian film shows – an early enthusiast for the Lumière cinématographe
• Silent cinematographers in Australia – the pioneers
• Filmography of Australian films of the end of the 19th century
• Australian films of the first decade of the 20th century
• The two 1907 film versions of Robbery Under Arms
• The 1908 Burns-Johnson boxing match film – more myths busted
• The film of Jack Johnson training – relocated in space and time
• The film of the naming of Australia's Federal capital, Canberra – or rather, several minutes later
• Identifying the locations in Longford's and Lyell's The Sentimental Bloke (1918)
• Gilbert Emery – aka Ginger Mick
• Australia's first De Forest phonofilm – the reception of the Duke and Duchess of York at Farm Cove, Sydney
• The Duke's speech – phonofilming the Duke of York opening Australia's Federal Parliament at Canberra in 1927
• Albert James Perier – recollections of a pioneer
• Albert Oscar Segerberg and the filming of the Melbourne Cup – some confusion 30 years later
• The first movies in New Caledonia – another French-Australian connection
• Dorothy Usner's naughty photographs – a curious link to early Australian film history
• Unfortunately, the nonsense continues

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