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Tagged: lost films

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The McDonagh Sisters: Australian filmmaking pioneers
For International Women's Day, we present a portrait of the pioneering Australian filmmakers, the McDonagh Sisters – Isabel, Paulette and Phyllis.
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Captain Thunderbolt
'Wake in Fright', 'The Sentimental Bloke' and 'The Story of the Kelly Gang' - now comes another important discovery in Australia's search for 'lost' films.
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A Daughter of the Gods: 'Million Dollar Spectacle'
An advertisement for an Australian screening of A Daughter of the Gods (Herbert Brenon, USA, 1916).  The three-hour epic featuring Annette Kellerman screened at the St George's Theatre in Yarraville...
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Comparing Kellerman's measurements with Cleopatra and Venus
A black-and-white advertisement for silent film A Daughter of the Gods (Herbert Brenon, USA, 1916).  The three-hour epic featuring Annette Kellerman screened at the St George's Theatre in Yarraville...
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A Daughter of the Gods: The lost film
Annette Kellerman stars as Anitia in the silent film A Daughter of the Gods (Herbert Brenon, USA, 1916). Regarded as big on spectacle but flimsy on plot by critics at the time, the million dollar...
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The lost film
An earlier cinematic interpretation of Banjo Paterson's poem was filmed in 1920, directed by Beaumont Smith. It is considered a 'lost' film though the NFSA does hold several still images from the...
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