Bushranging in North Queensland

Bushranging in North Queensland
Cinematography	Joseph Perry
Production company	Limelight Department
Distributed by	Salvation Army
Release date	1904 (1904)
Country	Australia
Languages	Silent English intertitles

Bushranging in North Queensland is a 1904 short film by the Limelight Department of the Salvation Army in Australia.[1] It was Australia's first bushranging drama shot on film.[2][3][4] It was shot near Winton, Queensland.[1][5]

Plot

The coach "bailed up" by Winton bushrangers, robbing of the passengers, shooting of the gang by the coach driver.[1]

References

1. "COUNTRY NOTES". The North Queensland Register (Townsville, Qld. : 1892 – 1905). Townsville, Qld.: National Library of Australia. 14 March 1904. p. 7 Supplement: SUPPLEMENT. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
2. "Australia's First Film Studio" at Salvation Army
3. Chris Long, “Australia’s First Films: New Light on the Limelight Department”, Cinema Papers 107 (December 1995), 37, 56.
4. Routt, William D (2001). "More Australian than Aristotelian: The Australian Bushranger Film, 1904–1914". Senses of Cinema.
5. "Bushranging in North Queensland' at Winton Outback Movie Capital