New South Wales Horse Artillery in Action

Directed by

Marius Sestier

Genre

documentary film, short film

Country

Australia

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a short film from 1896 showing Australian soldiers performing an artillery drill. It was one of the very first motion pictures ever made in Australia.

historicalearly cinemainstructionalstatelydocumentarystaticslow-paced

What happens

New South Wales Horse Artillery in Action was a short documentary film. Marius Sestier made two films of the New South Wales Horse Artillery drill at Victoria Barracks, Sydney. Sestier together with Henry Walter Barnett had made approximately 19 films in Sydney and Melbourne between October and November 1896, these being the very first films recorded in Australia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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