• Title
  Wybert Reeve, entrepreneur of film, 1903 / Hammer & Co., Adelaide
• Creator
  William H. Hammer & Co.
• Call number
  P1/1434
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1903
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  441954
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 1 panel photoprint - image 19.7 x 16.2 cm. , mount 29.9 x 21.1 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  In Adelaide Sestier teamed up with showman Wybert Reeve, first presenting the Cinematographe and a programme that included several of his Australian scenes from 26 December 1896. He further toured Australia up to May 1897, when his exclusive presentations of the Cinematographe ended and the machine became available for purchase to individual exhibitors. Sestier then returned to France, having left behind both the machinery and others trained by him to establish a native Australian film industry.
  
  Reference:
  Marius Sestier entry in Who's Who of Victorian Cinema: A Worldwide Survey. Stephen Herbert and Luke McKernan (eds.) (US publication and online website)
  
  See also reference:
  Entertaining Australia : an illustrated history / Katharine Brisbane (ed.). Sydney : Currency Press, 1991 (p.125, para.7)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Reeve, Wybert (BM), May 2010
  Digital order no:a4361034
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "To Mr F. [i.e. George L. ?] Goodman with best wishes of Wybert Reeve, Oct 26th 1903" -- signature on lower edge of mount
  
  Photographer's stamp on the lower edge
• Name
  Reeve, Wybert
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  businesspeople
  film distributors
  portraits
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3219921

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