Australian Western
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Australian Western, also known as meat pie Western or kangaroo Western, is a sub-genre of Western films or TV series set in the arid Australian outback or "the bush". Films about bushrangers are inclu
The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906), world's first full-length narrative feature film.
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The Story of the Kelly Gang
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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. Th
Australian Western
…as Australian Westerns, goes back to some of the first Australian feature films. Ned Kelly, as subject of a feature film, was first made in 1906, in The Story of the Kelly Gang. The British company Ealing Studios, made a number of Westerns in Australian in the 1940s and '50s, including The Overlanders (1946), about a cattle…
1910 re-release poster
The Kelly gang inspects a reward notice for their capture.
Dan Kelly cutting telegraph wires