The Melbourne Cup (1896)

Directed by

Henry Walter Barnett

Genre

documentary film, silent film

Country

Australia

Runtime

3 min

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a silent documentary film from 1896. It shows the Melbourne Cup horse race in Australia, including the race won by a horse named Newhaven. The film was part of a series of short movies about the Melbourne Cup Carnival.

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What happens

The Melbourne Cup was a film about the two mile horse race won by Newhaven which took place on Tuesday, 3 November 1896. Marius Sestier filmed the 1896 Melbourne Cup horse race, being in a series of films about the Melbourne Cup Carnival. The feature, which consisted of 10 one-minute films shown in chronological order, was premiered at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne on 19 November 1896. One or more of the films was actually shot on Derby Day, Saturday, 31 October 1896, when Newhaven won the Victoria Derby. It has been acclaimed as the main part of Australia’s first locally produced and successfully screened cinema program. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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