List of Australian films before 1910

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This is a chronological list of Australian films by decade and year for years 1890s–1910s. For a complete alphabetical A-Z list, see Category:Australian films.

A list of films produced in Australia by year, from the 1890s to the end of the 1910s, in the List of Australian films.

## Pre 1910s

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Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes

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1896
Passengers Alighting from Ferry Brighton at Manly | Marius Sestier |  | Short | 27 October IMDb
The Melbourne Cup | Marius Sestier | Henry Walter Barnett, Lord Brassey | Sports documentary | 24 November IMDb a series of 10 films
about the Melbourne Cup Carnival
New South Wales Horse Artillery in Action | Marius Sestier |  | Short documentary | IMDb
Patineur Grotesque | Marius Sestier |  | Short comedy | Not released until 28 March 1897 (Lyon) IMDb
1897
Prince Ranjitsinhji Practising Batting in the Nets | Henry Walter Barnett | Ranjitsinhji | Sports documentary | IMDb one of a series of 4 cricket films
1898
Melbourne Street Scene | Joseph Perry |  | Short | ABC Wayback machine
Social Salvation | Herbert Booth |  | Short documentary | 1 July IMDb
Torres Strait Islanders | Alfred Cort Haddon |  | Short documentaries |
1899
North Shore Steam Ferry | Frederick Wills |  | Short | Sydney
Newtown Railway Station | Frederick Wills |  | Short | Sydney
Dipping Sheep | Frederick Wills |  | Short documentary | Queensland Department of Agriculture
South Sea Islanders Cutting Cane | Frederick Wills |  | Short documentary | Queensland Department of Agriculture
Sugar Mills, Nambour | Frederick Wills |  | Short documentary | Queensland Department of Agriculture
Threshing at Allora | Frederick Wills |  | Short documentary | Queensland Department of Agriculture
Wheat Harvesting with Reaper and Binder | Frederick Wills |  | Short documentary | Queensland Department of Agriculture
SS Katoomba Unloading | Frederick Wills |  | Short | Queensland Department of Agriculture
Building Construction | Frederick Wills |  | Short | Queensland Department of Agriculture
Boer War Transvaal Contingent | Frederick Wills |  | Short documentary | Troops leaving for the Boer War
Loading Horses on the SS Cornwall | Frederick Wills |  | Short | Horses for the Boer War
Darnley Islanders Pay Tribute | Henry Mobsby |  | Short documentary | Torres Strait
Opening of Queensland Parliament | Frederick Wills |  | Short |
Government Party Boards SS Lucinda | Frederick Wills |  | Short | Brisbane
Queen Street and Victoria Bridge | Frederick Wills |  | Short | Brisbane
Roma Street Station | Frederick Wills |  | Short | Brisbane
1900
Second Victorian Contingent Leaving Melbourne | Joseph Perry |  | Documentary | Troops leaving for the Boer War
Soldiers of the Cross | Herbert Booth, Joseph Perry | Beatrice Day, Harold Graham | Christian drama | 13 September IMDb
1901
Inauguration of the Commonwealth | Joseph Perry |  | Documentary | 1 January IMDb
Royal Visit to Open the First Commonwealth Parliament | Joseph Perry |  | Documentary | 9 May IMDb
Aboriginal Life | Walter Baldwin Spencer |  | Documentary |
1902
Under Southern Skies | Joseph Perry |  | Documentary |
Lazarus | Joseph Perry |  | Christian drama |
1904
The Melbourne Cup | Franklyn Barrett |  | Sports documentary | 1 November IMDb first film of the whole race from start to finish
1906
The Story of the Kelly Gang | Charles Tait | Elizabeth Tait, John Tait | Biography drama | 26 December Considered the first full-length feature film ever made IMDb
1907
Eureka Stockade | Arthur Cornwall, George Cornwell |  | Short | 19 October IMDb
Robbery Under Arms | Charles MacMahon | Jim Gérald, George Merriman, Lance Vane | Drama | 1 October – Based on novel IMDb
Robbery Under Arms | John Tait, Nevin Tait |  | Drama | 31 October – Based on novel; considered lost
1908
The Grand Memorial Service | Joseph Perry |  | Documentary |
The Great White Fleet Visits the Antipodes | Joseph Perry | Great White Fleet | Documentary | August–September IMDb
For the Term of his Natural Life | Charles MacMahon | Martyn Keith, Rosie Knight Phillips | Short | 8 August IMDb
The Burns-Johnson Fight | Ernest Higgins | Jack Johnson, Tommy Burns | Sports documentary | 28 December IMDb
1909
Heroes of the Cross | Joseph Perry | Vida Dutton | Christian drama | IMDb
The Scottish Covenanters | Joseph Perry | Iza Crossley, Beatrice Day | Christian drama | IMDb

## External links

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* Australian film at the Internet Movie Database
* Marius Sestier Lumière Catalogue

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* 2023
* 2024
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Production companies
and studios|

* Cinesound Productions
* Commonwealth Film Laboratories
* Disney Studios Australia
* Film Australia
* Kennedy Miller Mitchell
* Limelight Department
* Pagewood Studios
* Palace
* Screen NSW
* Screen Queensland
* Screen Tasmania
* Screenwest
* South Australian Film Corporation
* VicScreen
* Village Roadshow Pictures
* Village Roadshow Studios

Organisations|

* Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA)
* Australian Cinematographers Society
* Australian Costumers' Guild
* Australian Directors' Guild
* Australian Film Institute (AFI)
* Australian Classification Board
* Australian Guild of Screen Composers
* Australian Production Design Guild
* Australian Screen Editors
* Australian Writers' Guild
* Casting Guild of Australia
* Film Critics Circle of Australia
* FTI
* Screen Australia
* Screen Producers Australia
* Sydney Filmmakers Cooperative

Awards|

* AACTA Awards
* ACS Awards
* ADG Awards
* APDG Awards
* ASE Awards
* ATOM Awards
* AWGIE Awards
* Film Critics Circle of Australia
* Inside Film Awards
* Screen Music Awards

Theatres|

* Ace Cinemas
* Australian Multiplex Cinemas
* Australian Theatres
* Dendy Cinemas
* Event Cinemas
* Grand Cinemas
* Hoyts
* Ozone Theatres
* Palace Cinemas
* Reading Cinemas
* Village Cinemas
* Wallis Cinemas

Topics|

* Academy Award winners and nominees
* Highest-grossing film
* Film and television financing in Australia
* Film industry in Western Australia
* Bushranger ban
* Ozploitation
* Australian New Wave
* Australian Western

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