History of Australian Cinema 1896 to 1940 - The Memorable TV DVD Review

A trio of hour long documentaries covering the pioneering years of Australian Cinema from its earliest experiments in the 1890's upto the start of World War II.

SO IS IT ANY GOOD?

Beginning with footage of the 1896 Melbourne Cup and closing with the coming of World War II these three documentaries (made over the course of 12 years between 1967 and 1979) are essential to anyone the slightest bit interested in Australian cinema history.

Part One covers the years 1896-1920 and takes early newsreel footage as well as Australia's first feature film The Story of the Kelly Gang, part two covers 1920-30 and the rise of Dad and Dave, over a hundred feature films were made in Australia during the 1920's only thirty

are known to still be inexistence, part three covers the 1930's and the rise of the talkie, the career of Charles Chauvel who made the legendary Forty Thousand Horsemen as well as the irrepressible Mo (aka Rene Roy).

Of enormous interest A History of Australian Cinema proves that Australian cinema didn't start in the 1970's as many would have us believe, we had a thriving industry right from the beginning and a for a time in the very earliest days actually led the world in feature making.

ANY SPECIAL FEATURES?

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