The Australian Film industry Prior to 1969.

Australia produced the first feature film, one year before America. Today the film has been ravished by the savagery of age. As a flickering and decrepit piece of celluloid rolls in front of our eyes, the significantly diminished footage concerns the story of the Kelly gang. The Kelly Gang was shot in a time of wonder hope and optimism. Through the decay of the aging film, it depicts the final nail in Ned Kelly’s coffin. As the armoured anti-hero fires off those last remaining shots, he is soon overpowered outnumbered and out-gunned. Crippled by the opposition’s blasts, through his sheer desperation, Australia’s most significant icon clings for support to his harsh landscape. He soon succumbs to those last fatal bullets delivered by the overwhelming number of governing authoritative bodies and falls to the ground defeated. Perhaps ironically it was this almost prolific piece of early media that bares a strange relationship to the Australian film industry as a whole; tarnished, cr...