Passengers Alighting from Ferry Brighton at Manly (1896)

Directed by

Marius Sestier

Genre

documentary film

Country

Australia

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film shows passengers getting off a ferry at a wharf in Sydney. It is the first movie made in Australia.

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What happens

Passengers Alighting from Ferry Brighton at Manly is an 1896 film by Marius Sestier of passengers alighting from the paddle steamer ferry Brighton at Manly Wharf in Sydney. It is the first film ever shot and screened in Australia. Sestier and Henry Walter Barnett made approximately 19 films in Sydney and Melbourne between October and November 1896, of which this was the earliest. The film premiered on 27 October 1896 at the Salon Lumière on Sydney's Pitt Street, Australia's first cinema, founded by Sestier and Barnett. No copy is known to have survived. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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