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Passengers Alighting from Ferry Brighton at Manly
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'Passengers Alighting from Ferry Brighton at Manly' was the first film shot and screened in Australia.
Marius Sestier made a film of passengers alighting from the paddle steamer ferry 'Brighton' at Manly Wharf.
In September 1896, Sestier and Henry Walter Barnett opened Australia's first cinema, the 'Salon Lumire' in Pitt Street, Sydney. It was at this cinema the film was first shown on the 27th October 1896 with the promise of more to come.
Sestier, together with Henry Walter Barnett, made approximately 19 films in Sydney and Melbourne between October and November 1896, these being the very first films recorded in Australia.
There is no known surviving copy of the film.
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