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 projected 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
• The film of the 1897 Victoria Racing Club Derby - not of the 1897 Melbourne Cup
• Patineur Grotesque - the rediscovery of one of Australia's earliest films
• Henry Walter Barnett and the first Australia motion pictures - what did he do?
• The 1897-1898 cricket test match films - not what some were advertised as
• Filmography of Australian films of the end of the 19th century
• Silent cinematographers in Australia - the pioneers
• The two 1907 film versions of "Robbery Under Arms"
• Wybert Reeve's Australasian film shows - an early enthusiast for the Lumière cinématographe
• 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
• The film of the naming of Australia's Federal capital, Canberra - or rather, several minutes later
• 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
• The 1908 Burns-Johnson boxing match film - more myths busted
• The film of Jack Johnson training - relocated in space and time
• Identifying the locations in The Sentimental Bloke (1918)
• Dorothy Usner's naughty photograph(s) - a curious link to early Australian film history
• Unfortunately, the nonsense continues

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