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Short – Australia’s First Night at the Flicks
Season 9 · Episode 73

Short – Australia’s First Night at the Flicks

Forgotten Australia · Michael Adams

November 20, 202511m 3s

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Show Notes

In August 1896, Aussies went to the movies for the first time – and it happened at Melbourne’s Opera House just nine months after the French Lumiere brothers got le punters to pay to see the moving pictures in Paris.


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