Passengers_Alighting_from_Ferry_Brighton_at_Manly

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Passengers Alighting from Ferry Brighton at Manly

1896 documentary film directed by Marius Sestier

Passengers Alighting from Ferry Brighton at Manly was the first film shot and screened in Australia.[1]

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Marius Sestier made a film of passengers alighting from the paddle steamer ferry Brighton at Manly Wharf.[1]

In September 1896, Sestier and Henry Walter Barnett opened Australia's first cinema, the Salon Lumière in Pitt Street, Sydney.[2] It was at this cinema the film was first shown on the 27th October 1896 with the promise of more to come.[2]

Sestier, together with Henry Walter Barnett, made approximately 19 films in Sydney and Melbourne between October and November 1896, these being the very first films recorded in Australia.[3]

There is no known surviving copy of the film.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Martin-Jones, Tony. "Marius Sestier in Australia". apex net au. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
  2. [2]
    "Marius Sestier Collection". Australia: National Film and Sound Archive. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
  3. [3]
    "THE LUMIERE CINEMATOGRAPHE". The Daily Telegraph. No. 5448. New South Wales, Australia. 5 December 1896. p. 11. Retrieved 18 October 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. [4]
    "Passengers Alighting from Ferry 'Brighton' at Manly". Dictionary of Sydney. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
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