IN AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
1906 The Story of the Kelly Gang premieres in Melbourne before screening worldwide.
multi-reel, feature-length film, , opened at the Athenaeum Hall, on Collins Street in Melbourne, on Boxing Day in 1906. Its sympathetic portrayal of the Kelly gang was controversial and the Victorian government tried to censor it. But audiences flocked to screenings around Australia and then internationally. A century on, celebrated Australian film critic Paul Byrnes observed: