In another part of the world, halfway across the globe from Méliès, Australia had decided to enter the film business, herself; the result was the world's first full-length feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, written and directed by a little-known filmmaker named Charles Tait.Unfortunately for film historians, only 17 minutes out of the original hour-long presentation have survived; here are those 17 minutes, the last portion of the film we have, based in part on the life of notorious bushranger Ned Kelly:
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