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- Australian filmmakers were at the forefront of cinema and film, having created what is considered the first feature-length narrative film with the release of The Story of the Kelly Gang and other early films by directors John Gavin, W. J. Lincoln and Alfred Rolfe. Notable Australian films of the 1890s:
* Passengers Alighting from Ferry Brighton at Manly (1896) – first film produced and screened in Australia
* The Melbourne Cup (1896) – multiple reel sports documentary of the Melbourne Cup Carnival
* Patineur Grotesque (1897) – comedy roller-skater routine originally filmed in 1896
* Prince Ranjitsinhji Practising Batting in the Nets (1897) – featuring Ranjitsinhji one of the earliest surviving cricket films
* Social Salvation (1898) – documentary about living conditions produced by Herbert Booth for the Salvation Army in Australia Notable Australian films of the early 1900s:
* Soldiers of the Cross (1900) – religious drama produced by the Limelight Department of the Salvation Army
* Inauguration of the Commonwealth (1901) – multiple reel documentary of the Federation of Australia
* The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) – world's first feature-length film
* Moora Neya, or The Message of the Spear (1911) – one of the first films to depict Indigenous Australians
* The Sentimental Bloke (1919) – made by Raymond Longford and Lottie Lyell, one of the first, best known and most successful silent era films with a first-person narrative, the best-known partnership in Australian film at that time
* For the Term of His Natural Life (1927) – based on the novel by Marcus Clarke; the most expensive Australian silent film ever made Notable Australian films of the 1930s:
* On Our Selection (1932) – comedy based on the Dad and Dave stories by Steele Rudd
* In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) – first film to star Errol Flynn, an iconic Australian "swashbuckler" character
* The Squatter's Daughter (1933) – directed by Ken G. Hall, one of the most popular Australian films of the 1930s (en)
- La page ci-dessous regroupe les listes de films australiens produits par l'industrie cinématographique australienne, classés par année de sortie. Les articles détaillés proposent des listes plus précises. (fr)
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