19 Jan 2018

SCREENING: Early Australian cinema - The Pictures That Moved: Australian cinema 1896-1920

SCREENING: Early Australian cinema - The Pictures That Moved: Australian cinema 1896-1920

Fri 19 January 2.30–3.30pm

NFSA friends and CMAG members free, or by gold coin donation.

The birth of the Australian film industry coincided with Federation, and this compilation film tracks its first two decades.

Directed by Alan Anderson and scripted by Joan Long, it was released in 1968 and was a revelation to audiences.

Subsequent "finds" by the National Film and Sound Archive have fleshed out some of the gaps in our early film history, and Ray Edmondson will give an introduction bringing the story up to date.

SCREENING: Early Australian cinema - The Pictures That Moved: Australian cinema 1896-1920

Fri 19 January 2.30–3.30pm

NFSA friends and CMAG members free, or by gold coin donation.