The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)
Note: this print runs 21 minutes against a recorded 70 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With John Tait
Directed by Charles Tait, Millard Johnson, William Gibson
The Story of the Kelly Gang is a 1906 Australian silent bushranger film directed by Charles Tait. It traces the exploits of the 19th-century Kelly gang of bushrangers and outlaws, led by Ned Kelly. The film was shot in and around Melbourne and originally ran for more than an hour with a reel length of about 1,200 metres (4,000 ft), making it the longest narrative film ever made at the time.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.
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