Bushranging in North Queensland

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Bushranging in North Queensland
Cinematography Joseph Perry
Production
company
Distributed by Salvation Army
Release date
  • 1904 (1904)
CountryAustralia
Languages Silent
English intertitles

Bushranging in North Queensland is a 1904 short film by the Limelight Department of the Salvation Army in Australia. [1] It was Australia's first bushranging drama shot on film. [2] [3] [4] It was shot near Winton, Queensland. [1] [5]

Plot

The coach "bailed up" by Winton bushrangers, robbing of the passengers, shooting of the gang by the coach driver. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "COUNTRY NOTES". The North Queensland Register (Townsville, Qld. : 1892 – 1905) . Townsville, Qld.: National Library of Australia. 14 March 1904. p. 7 Supplement: SUPPLEMENT. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "Australia's First Film Studio" at Salvation Army
  3. ↑ Chris Long, "Australia's First Films: New Light on the Limelight Department", Cinema Papers 107 (December 1995), 37, 56.
  4. ↑ Routt, William D (2001). "More Australian than Aristotelian: The Australian Bushranger Film, 1904–1914". Senses of Cinema.
  5. ↑ "Bushranging in North Queensland' at Winton Outback Movie Capital


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