A. O. Segerberg Explained

Albert Oscar Segerberg (1881—13 July 1941) was an Australian cameraman. He began shooting films as early as 1896, and later worked as a cameraman for Pathé Frères, the Australian Photo-Play Company and the Fraser brothers. He shot large numbers of newsreels, and industrial and educational documentaries, including his own series, Australia at Work.^[1]

Segerberg claimed to have taken the first moving pictures in Australia at the 1896 Melbourne Cup and shown it in the Opera House, Melbourne.^[2]

Selected filmography

• Cooee and the Echo (1912)
• Whose Was the Hand? (1912)
• The Moira, or Mystery of the Bush (1912)
• The Rebel (1915)
• The Mutiny of the Bounty (1916)
• The Hayseeds' Back-blocks Show (1917)
• The Hayseeds Come to Sydney (1917)
• The Hayseeds' Melbourne Cup (1918)
• A Romance of Burke and Wills Expedition of 1860 (1918)

External links

• • A.O. Segerberg at National Film and Sound Archive

Notes and References

1. Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 32
2. News: CINEMATOGRAPHY. . . 20 October 1927 . 1 January 2014 . 12 . National Library of Australia.