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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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'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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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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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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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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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...
