The Story of the Kelly Gang 1906 123movies

Watch: The Story of the Kelly Gang 1906 123movies, Full Movie Online – Story of Ned Kelly, an infamous 19th-century Australian outlaw..
Plot: Just as Galeen and Wegener’s Der Golem (1915) can be seen as a testament to early German film artistry, The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) symbolizes both the birth of the Australian film industry and the emergence of an Australian cinema identity. Even more significantly, it heralds the emergence of the feature film format. However, only fragments of the original production of more than one hour are known to exist, preserved at the National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra; Efforts at reconstruction have made the film available to modern audiences.
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	6.0/10 Votes: 794
	80% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 27 Popularity: 1.344 | TMDB

Reviews:

An Incomplete Movie On A Groundbreaking Milestone
Sometimes history treats researchers with frustration with little or no physical evidence to shine further light on known pivot-points. This is exactly the trouble with the 1906 The Kelly Gang movie. Every movie buff knows that the Australian one-hour-long film broke new ground when it was released. Films released prior to late 1906 were 3 to 10 minute pieces of work, with producers figuring that’s about the normal attention span movie audiences could sustain without getting restless. Besides an occasional long boxing match production, no dramatic film was ever financed and produced with that length of over 15 minutes.

So when the Aussies put forth a 65-minute film recreating the exploits of the Kelly Gang running amok in the late 1800’s, audiences were applauding the movie throughout. Several situational scenes were reportedly contained in the movie, although alas, as every historian has experienced , the forensics are not quite all there in this movie.

The edition I watched was compiled by the National Film & Sound Archive, which was 31 minutes long. About 13 minutes, mostly front ended, was viewable. Modern titles detailing the movie’s plot unveiled a series of events where the gang robbed and then were chased before its members robbed again. Towards the end, where the last of the members were cornered, several minutes of basically an unwatchable, damaged string of celluloid were played.

So today’s viewers will only get a glimpse of what can only be appreciated by long gone generations. But we do know the importance of this film, even though feature, long-running movies wouldn’t be in vogue until the mid-teens.

Pity the poor projectionist!
This afternoon at the Barbican, I attended the UK premiere of the digitally restored ‘The Story of the Kelly Gang’, with excellent piano accompaniment by John Sweeney, as part of the opening day’s programme for the Silent Film & Live Music Series running through June. It’s also part of the London Australian Film Festival, likewise at the Barbican … so, I actually ended up attending two film festivals simultaneously! The restored film is a double-bill with ‘The Life Story of John Lee: The Man They Could Not Hang’.

‘The Story of the Kelly Gang’ is generally believed to be (and most likely WAS) the first feature-length movie ever made, produced in 1906. Sadly, the past tense is appropriate here, as the film is now not known to survive except in fragments … and some of those do indeed appear to be out-takes, as a previous IMDb’er has noted. Actually, I’ve also seen (in Australia) another reel of this film: not a projection of the movie’s image onto a screen, but rather I’ve seen (and touched) a mouldering reel of nitrate footage from the movie itself, now deteriorated beyond hope of restoration.

As a part-time Australian (born in Scotland, expatriated Down Under as a ‘child migrant’), I ought to feel proud that Australia produced the first feature movie. However, quite enough films pre-dating 1906 survive (from various nations) to make it clear that a substantial amount of film technique — the close-up, the dissolve, the cross-cut — had already evolved before this movie was made. Watching this restoration at the Barbican, it occurred to me that credit for the single biggest innovation in ‘The Story of the Kelly Gang’ belongs not to the photographer, director, editor or scenarist, but rather to that most unsung of film figures … old Smokey, the projectionist. Prior to ‘The Story of the Kelly Gang’, films were so short that it was possible to store two or more separate movies on one projection reel. And, each reel being a separate story, the breaks between reels were natural breaks in the narrative. Many early cinemas had only one projector, with live entertainment provided during the longeur while the previous reel was rewound before the next reel could be shown. However, when ‘The Story of the Kelly Gang’ was exhibited in its original form in Australia (and later in other countries), the projectionist had to maintain two sets of apparatus at the same go, so as to achieve a seamless transition between reels. I wonder how soon film editors began using a reel marker (traditionally in the frame’s upper right-hand corner) to indicate that a reel was about to end.

Despite being largely missing in action, the original ‘Story of the Kelly Gang’ is of incalculable historic importance. As for the digital version which I enjoyed today, accompanied by Mr Sweeney’s impressive performance on the keyboard, I’ll rate it a full 10 out of 10. Bonzer, cobbers!

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 10 min (70 min), 17 min (surviving footage)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Action, Adventure, Biography
Director Charles Tait
Writer Charles Tait
Actors Elizabeth Tait, John Tait, Nicholas Brierley
Country Australia
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Silent
Aspect Ratio 1.33 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 1,200 m, 1,219.2 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm