First Austalian Film - The Melbourne Cup (1896) Pt3 The Race Itself

[AusRadioHistorian]

This is NOT the first film made in Australia - not even the earliest Australian film surviving. Two films of the 1896 VRC Derby were shot by Sestier three days earlier, and one of them was released in the NFSA's video compile "Federation Films" in 1990. For full details refer: "Cinema Papers" No 93, Melbourne, May 1993, pps 34 - 41; and ibid., August 1993, pps 34 -39 & p 62. The first Australian film was of passengers alighting the ferry at Manly, 25 October 1896 - unfortunately not surviving.