Eureka Stockade (1907 film)

Other scenes in the lost reels of the film were believed to have included gold seekers leaving London; the issuing of licences; the rush at Canadian gully; the arrival of the first women at the goldfields; licence hunting; diggers chained to logs and rescued by mates; the murder of Scottish gold digger James Scobie; diggers burning Bentley's Hotel; the Rebellion; Peter Lalor addressing the miners; burning the licenses; building the stockade; troops storming the stockade; the stockade in ruins; and a look at Ballarat 55 years later[8][9] The Bendigo Independent described a screening in February 1908: This picture illustrates, in a remarkable degree the ingenuity of biographists and shows to what extent the machine can ho used.

The windlasses, cradles, tubs and dollies puddling machines, etc., were shown with realistio faithfulness to detail aud those present frequently broke out into applause.

When the aotual hostilities commenced at Eureka between miners on the one side and police and soldiers on" tho other, there was much excitement and the sensational incidents of the stockade as the biograph unwound them were keenly watched.

Tho fluttering of the first diggings woman's washing on a clothes line between the tents caused much amusement.

Mr. Rupert Cuthbert, the well-known motropollitantan vocalist, contributed several ballads at intervals in pleasing style.

Burrow had been stage manager of many shows involving the Eureka Stockade and the early history of Ballarat.

The people are quaintly dressed in costumes of the time, the men chiefly in belltoppers and the women all in bonnets.

[20]The Bendigo Advertiser said "though the pictures were accompanied by a marring flicker, resembling a consta.nl rainfall, the treatment of the subject—interesting to all lovers of Australian liislory- -was decidedly clever, and applause frequently punctuated the progress of the performance.