Tony Martin-Jones' film history notes
Topics in the history of the first motion pictures shown and produced in Australia, India, and New Caledonia
Getting to the truth after decades of unchecked nonsense.
- Carl Hertz in Australia – the first projected motion pictures in Australia
- Marius Sestier in India – the first motion pictures in India
- Marius Sestier in Australia – the first motion pictures filmed in Australia
- The meeting of Marius Sestier and H. Walter Barnett – not what's in the history books
- Patineur grotesque – the rediscovery of what is probably the first film shot in Australia
- The films of the Melbourne Cup, 1896 – the most well-known first Australian films
- The film of the 1897 Victoria Racing Club Derby – not of the 1897 Melbourne Cup
- The Joly-Normandin Biographe in Australia and South Africa
- Henry Walter Barnett and the first Australia motion pictures – what did he do?
- The first cinema in Australia
- The 1897-1898 cricket test match films – not what some were advertised as
- Wybert Reeve's Australasian film shows – an early enthusiast for the Lumière cinématographe
- The first movies in New Caledonia – another French-Australian connection
- Silent cinematographers in Australia – the pioneers
- Filmography of Australian films of the end of the 19th century
- Australian films of the first decade of the 20th century
- The two 1907 motion picture versions of Robbery Under Arms
- The George Street tram film – a main Sydney street as it was in late 1907
- The 1908 Burns-Johnson boxing match film – more myths busted
- The film of Jack Johnson training – relocated in space and time
- The film of the naming of Australia's Federal capital, Canberra – or rather, several minutes later
- Identifying the locations in Longford's and Lyell's The Sentimental Bloke (1918)
- Raymond Longford: some notes on his life
- Lottie Lyell: her life before motion pictures
- Gilbert Emery – aka Ginger Mick
- Australia's first De Forest phonofilm – the reception of the Duke and Duchess of York at Farm Cove, Sydney
- The Duke's speech – phonofilming the Duke of York opening Australia's Federal Parliament at Canberra in 1927
- Albert James Perier – recollections of a pioneer
- Albert Oscar Segerberg and the filming of the Melbourne Cup – some confusion 30 years later
- Dorothy Usner's naughty photographs – a curious link to early Australian film history
- Unfortunately, the nonsense continues
- Lottie Lyell: her life before motion pictures
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