Passengers Alighting from Ferry Brighton at Manly explained

Passengers Alighting from Ferry Brighton at Manly
Based On:	documentary
Cinematography:	Marius Sestier
Studio:	Lumière Brothers
Country:	Australia
Language:	Silent

Passengers Alighting from Ferry Brighton at Manly is an 1896 film by Marius Sestier of passengers alighting from the paddle steamer ferry Brighton at Manly Wharf in Sydney.^[1] It is the first film ever shot and screened in Australia.^[1] Sestier and Henry Walter Barnett made approximately 19 films in Sydney and Melbourne between October and November 1896, of which this was the earliest.^[2]

The film premiered on 27 October 1896 at the Salon Lumière on Sydney's Pitt Street, Australia's first cinema, founded by Sestier and Barnett. ^[3] No copy is known to have survived.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Martin-Jones . Tony . Marius Sestier in Australia . apex net au . 18 October 2020.
2. News: THE LUMIERE CINEMATOGRAPHE. . . 5448 . New South Wales, Australia . 5 December 1896 . 18 October 2020 . 11 . National Library of Australia.
3. Web site: Marius Sestier Collection. National Film and Sound Archive. Australia. 10 March 2014.
4. Web site: Passengers Alighting from Ferry 'Brighton' at Manly . Dictionary of Sydney . 22 October 2020.