A list of films produced in Australia by year, from the 1890s to the end of the 1910s, in the List of Australian films.
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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1896 | ||||||
Passengers Alighting from Ferry Brighton at Manly | Marius Sestier | Short | 27 October IMDb | |||
The Melbourne Cup | Marius Sestier | Henry Walter Barnett, Lord Brassey | Sports documentary | 24 November IMDb a series of 10 films about the Melbourne Cup Carnival | ||
New South Wales Horse Artillery in Action | Marius Sestier | Short documentary | IMDb | |||
Patineur Grotesque | Marius Sestier | Short comedy | Not released until 28 March 1897 (Lyon) IMDb | |||
1897 | ||||||
Prince Ranjitsinhji Practising Batting in the Nets | Henry Walter Barnett | Ranjitsinhji | Sports documentary | IMDb one of a series of 4 cricket films | ||
1898 | ||||||
Melbourne Street Scene | Joseph Perry | Short | ABC Wayback machine | |||
Social Salvation | Herbert Booth | Short documentary | 1 July IMDb | |||
Torres Strait Islanders | Alfred Cort Haddon | Short documentaries | ||||
1899 | ||||||
North Shore Steam Ferry | Frederick Wills | Short | Sydney | |||
Newtown Railway Station | Frederick Wills | Short | Sydney | |||
Dipping Sheep | Frederick Wills | Short documentary | Queensland Department of Agriculture | |||
South Sea Islanders Cutting Cane | Frederick Wills | Short documentary | Queensland Department of Agriculture | |||
Sugar Mills, Nambour | Frederick Wills | Short documentary | Queensland Department of Agriculture | |||
Threshing at Allora | Frederick Wills | Short documentary | Queensland Department of Agriculture | |||
Wheat Harvesting with Reaper and Binder | Frederick Wills | Short documentary | Queensland Department of Agriculture | |||
SS Katoomba Unloading | Frederick Wills | Short | Queensland Department of Agriculture | |||
Building Construction | Frederick Wills | Short | Queensland Department of Agriculture | |||
Boer War Transvaal Contingent | Frederick Wills | Short documentary | Troops leaving for the Boer War | |||
Loading Horses on the SS Cornwall | Frederick Wills | Short | Horses for the Boer War | |||
Darnley Islanders Pay Tribute | Henry Mobsby | Short documentary | Torres Strait | |||
Opening of Queensland Parliament | Frederick Wills | Short | ||||
Government Party Boards SS Lucinda | Frederick Wills | Short | Brisbane | |||
Queen Street and Victoria Bridge | Frederick Wills | Short | Brisbane | |||
Roma Street Station | Frederick Wills | Short | Brisbane | |||
1900 | ||||||
Second Victorian Contingent Leaving Melbourne | Joseph Perry | Documentary | Troops leaving for the Boer War | |||
Soldiers of the Cross | Herbert Booth, Joseph Perry | Beatrice Day, Harold Graham | Christian drama | 13 September IMDb | ||
1901 | ||||||
Inauguration of the Commonwealth | Joseph Perry | Documentary | 1 January IMDb | |||
Royal Visit To Open The First Commonwealth Parliament | Joseph Perry | Documentary | 9 May IMDb | |||
Aboriginal Life | Walter Baldwin Spencer | Documentary | ||||
1902 | ||||||
Under Southern Skies | Joseph Perry | Documentary | ||||
Lazarus | Joseph Perry | Christian drama | ||||
1904 | ||||||
The Melbourne Cup | Franklyn Barrett | Sports documentary | 1 November IMDb first film of the whole race from start to finish | |||
1906 | ||||||
The Story of the Kelly Gang | Charles Tait | Elizabeth Tait, John Tait | Biography drama | 26 December Considered the first full-length feature film ever made IMDb | ||
1907 | ||||||
Eureka Stockade | Arthur Cornwall, George Cornwell | Short | 19 October IMDb | |||
Robbery Under Arms | Charles MacMahon | Jim Gérald, George Merriman, Lance Vane | Drama | 1 October – Based on novel IMDb | ||
Robbery Under Arms | John Tait, Nevin Tait | Drama | 31 October – Based on novel; considered lost | |||
1908 | ||||||
The Grand Memorial Service | Joseph Perry | Documentary | ||||
The Great White Fleet Visits the Antipodes | Joseph Perry | Great White Fleet | Documentary | August–September IMDb | ||
For the Term of His Natural Life | Charles MacMahon | Martyn Keith, Rosie Knight Phillips | Short | 8 August IMDb | ||
The Burns-Johnson Fight | Ernest Higgins | Jack Johnson, Tommy Burns | Sports documentary | 28 December IMDb | ||
1909 | ||||||
Heroes of the Cross | Joseph Perry | Vida Dutton | Christian drama | IMDb | ||
The Scottish Covenanters | Joseph Perry | Iza Crossley, Beatrice Day | Christian drama | IMDb |
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