Bushranging in North Queensland

Bushranging in North Queensland
CinematographyJoseph Perry
Production
company
Distributed bySalvation Army
Release date
  • 1904 (1904)
CountryAustralia
LanguagesSilent
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. ^ a b c "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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