Postcards featuring stills from the film ‘The Story of the Kelly Gang’, [1907]

PXB 1711

fonds

1907

Graphic Materials, Photographs

1001686

4 photographic prints - postcards - 9 x 14 cm

The motion picture ‘The Story of the Kelly Gang’ was first screened in Melbourne in August 1906. These postcards are from a series of 12 which was issued to coincide with the film’s British release in late 1907.

Reference:
Library correspondence file

Four postcards, numbers 2, 3, 6 and 12, from the series ‘The Story of “The Kelly Gang”, the Great Australian Drama’, featuring still photographs from the film. The postcards are inscribed as follows:
(2) Sticking up Younghusband’s Station
(3) Death of Sherritt, the traitor
(6) Kate Kelly, the heroine of the story
(12) Ned Kelly in armour

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Inscription: 'The Story of "The Kelly Gang", the Great Australian Drama. Introduced by the Colonial Picture Combine.' - printed on each postcard