Marvellous Melbourne - Queen City of the South

Publication date

13 May 2013

A documentary film made in 1910 about the City of Melbourne, then the interim capital city of Australia.

The director, Charles Cozens Spencer, was famous for his bushranger films: "Captain Starlight" (Robbery Under Arms), "Captain Midnight - The Bush King", "The Life and Adventures of John Vane, The Notorious Australian Bushranger", "Dan Morgan, The Terror of the Australian Bush" (Mad Dog Morgan). He also made the 1915 Film "The Shepherd of the Southern Cross." He introduced Australia's greatest silent film-maker, Raymond Longford, to the business.

Spencer died in September 1930. (He drowned himself after going on a killing spree in Canada.)

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