The Melbourne Cup (1904 film)

The Melbourne Cup
Directed by	Franklyn Barrett
Cinematography	Franklyn Barrett
Release date	1904 (1904) (Melbourne)
Running time	2 minutes
Country	Australia
Language	Silent

The Melbourne Cup was a film about the two mile horse race won by Acrasia which took place on Tuesday, 1 November 1904.[1]

Franklyn Barrett filmed the 1904 Melbourne Cup.[2] This was the first time the Melbourne Cup had been filmed from start to finish.[3]

It has been acclaimed as the first horse race filmed in full.[4]

References

1. "The Melbourne Cup". The Advertiser. Vol. XLVII, no. 14, 366. South Australia. 2 November 1904. p. 10. Retrieved 9 February 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
2. "A Maker of Films". The Barrier Miner. Broken Hill, NSW: National Library of Australia. 20 March 1908. p. 3. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
3. Rutledge, Martha (1979). "Barrett, Walter Franklyn". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
4. "letter to Franklyn Barrett from H. Byron Moore". Australia: National Film and Sound Archive. 29 September 1904. Retrieved 10 February 2021.

External links

• The Melbourne Cup at IMDb