The Story Of The Kelly Gang 1906 Movie Poster A2 Full-Colour Reproduction
$14.95
The Story Of The Kelly Gang A2-Size 1906 Movie Poster Reproduction Print is printed on archive-quality matt art stock and ready for framing. It measures 594mm high x 420mm wide (A2 finished size) and is official IronOutlawDotCom merchandise. We will securely mail the poster via an Australia Post Mailing Tube.
The Story Of The Kelly Gang was Australia’s first feature film and a work of ambitious dimensions. Produced by the Melbourne entrepreneurs, the brothers J. and N. Tait and photographed by Millard Johnson and William Alfred Gibson, it had a grand opening at the Melbourne Town Hall in 1906 before transferring to the Athenaeum Hall. The film was 4,000 feet long and at a projection speed of sixteen frames per second; this is over sixty-seven minutes of the film, longer than any film made in the world at that time except for a few European religious narratives. To add to the reality, the showmen provided noises – hoofbeats, gunshots, and voices – backstage. Not only was there the ‘full synopsis’ promised in the newsprint advertisement reproduced here, but a programme booklet with the story and stills from the film. The film was a much-applauded success and was still being shown years later.
By 1906, the Australian film industry was ten years old. The first public screening in the world was held by the Lumiére Brothers in Paris in 1895; the first imported films were shown in Australia in 1896; the first films shot in Australia were shown the same year. As the popularity of film rapidly increased, there was an open-minded acceptance in Australia of its possibilities in many areas, including ethnographic filming (complete with recorded sound) by Waiter Baldwin Spencer in 1901, but the early straight entertainment films were short newsreels or simple stories. They were shown at the end of vaudeville programmes or in halls specially hired: the new century was some years old before the first moving picture halls were opened.
The Story Of The Kelly Gang A2-Size 1906 Movie Poster Reproduction Print is printed on archive-quality matt art stock and ready for framing. It measures 594mm high x 420mm wide (A2 finished size) and is official IronOutlawDotCom merchandise. We will securely mail the poster via an Australia Post Mailing Tube.
The Story Of The Kelly Gang 1906 Movie Poster A2 Full-Colour Reproduction
$14.95
The Story Of The Kelly Gang A2-Size 1906 Movie Poster Reproduction Print is printed on archive-quality matt art stock and ready for framing. It measures 594mm high x 420mm wide (A2 finished size) and is official IronOutlawDotCom merchandise. We will securely mail the poster via an Australia Post Mailing Tube.
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The Story Of The Kelly Gang was Australia’s first feature film and a work of ambitious dimensions. Produced by the Melbourne entrepreneurs, the brothers J. and N. Tait and photographed by Millard Johnson and William Alfred Gibson, it had a grand opening at the Melbourne Town Hall in 1906 before transferring to the Athenaeum Hall. The film was 4,000 feet long and at a projection speed of sixteen frames per second; this is over sixty-seven minutes of the film, longer than any film made in the world at that time except for a few European religious narratives. To add to the reality, the showmen provided noises – hoofbeats, gunshots, and voices – backstage. Not only was there the ‘full synopsis’ promised in the newsprint advertisement reproduced here, but a programme booklet with the story and stills from the film. The film was a much-applauded success and was still being shown years later.
The Story Of The Kelly Gang A2-Size 1906 Movie Poster Reproduction Print is printed on archive-quality matt art stock and ready for framing. It measures 594mm high x 420mm wide (A2 finished size) and is official IronOutlawDotCom merchandise. We will securely mail the poster via an Australia Post Mailing Tube.
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