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Dec 8, 2016 · Bushranger films, one of the most popular films ever made in Australia, were banned in three states by the police in 1912, for fear of their impact on law and order.
Dec 28, 2019 · Starting in the early 1900s, Bushranger films fast became audience favourites with the thrilling tales of the most notorious rogues brought to life in a way that was new and exciting as well as accessible to audiences.
Feb 24, 2021 · The Legend of Ben Hall is an interesting entry in the history of bushranger films for a number of reasons. Chiefly, it is the only standalone theatrical bushranger feature that has put particular emphasis on historical accuracy in every level of production.
Feb 14, 2019 · One of the most powerful avenues for this legend's cultural dissemination is the visual representation of bushrangers in popular entertainments. Throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty- first, the cinema has been the most significant site for this cultural phenomenon.
- Joining The Cattle Duffers
- The Bushranger Film in The Context of Australian Production
- The Bushranger Film in The Context of Australian Culture
- The Bushranger Genre
- Films with Bushranger Subplots
Thunderbolt(1910) opens as Frederick Ward, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and leading a horse, bids a loving farewell to his sweetheart, Jess Anson, in front of her farm. The lane is dusty and crowded with riders, Ward’s companions. Something is urging them to leave the farmland and their true loves behind. The situation is one which might occur in a W...
One of the most interesting things about the films made in Australia from 1906 to 1914 is the high proportion of feature productions among them. (4)Approximately 113 Australian fiction films were produced in the years from 1906 to 1914. The bulk of fiction film production during this period took place in the 20 “boom” months from November 1910 thro...
In his famous essay on the Western as “le cinéma américain par excellence”, André Bazin opined that the aesthetic “success” of The Overlanders (1946), a British film made in Australia, “was only due to the exceptional conjunction” of an American Western “theme” (the cattle drive) and the central Australian landscape “closely analogous to that of th...
1904 – Bushranging in Northern Queensland(? ft; Joseph Perry; The Salvation Army Limelight Department). Fiction original. Perhaps two shots of a hold-up. – The Bushranger (? ft; AThe Fitzgerald Family@ [see John Vanebelow] with Millard Johnson and William Gibson: ?). No other information. 1906 ? – [Kelly gang footage] (? ft; ?; ?). Some footage sur...
1910 – The Squatter’s Daughter, or The Land of the Wattle(6000? ft; Bert Bailey; ?). 4 August. From stage. 1911 – The Assigned Servant(4000 ft; Gavin; Crick and Finlay). 26 August. Fiction original. – The Squatter’s Son(? ft; E.J. Cole?: Pathé Frères). 22 April. Fiction original. 1913 – The Sick Stockrider (1200 ft; W.J. Lincoln; Lincoln-Cass Films...
The advent of cinema offered the bushranger legend a new and distinctive avenue for its representation in Australia, and the subject was extremely popular with filmmakers and audiences for the first decade of film production in Australia.
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Feb 24, 2021 · I now realised that for so many years, filmmakers have been approaching these stories from two polarising viewpoints; bushrangers are the good, police are the bad – or visa versa. Yet the true history of these men and women cannot be defined so simply.
