My Favorite Westerns

Category: Ned Kelly

  • Dusters Down Under: Part 2: The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)

    “A thrilling moving picture from start to finish
    The Most Sensational, The Most Thrilling and Interesting LIVING PICTURES EVER TAKEN.”

    ned kelly song … waylon jennings

    the story begins

    Wikipedia: The Story of the Kelly Gang is a 1906 Australian film that traces the life of the legendary infamous outlaw and bushranger Ned Kelly (1855–1880). It was written and directed by Charles Tait. The film ran for more than an hour, and at that time was the longest narrative film yet seen in the world. Its approximate reel length was 4,000 feet …

    the story of the ned kelly gang poster

    There are only about ten minutes the of film left. Many rolls of damaged film were found in an old barn which was once the family home of the Crews in Yarraville, Victoria. The roles were sent to Canberra but they were unable to recover most of the footage. In November 2006 the National Film and Sound Archive made a new digital copy of the movie. This has 11 minutes of extra film which was discovered in the United Kingdom. The movie now is 17 minutes long. It has the main scene of the Kelly’s fight with the police at Glenrowan (called the Kelly’s Last Stand).

    ned kelly and gang

    practicing

    shooting sidesaddle

    ned in his armour
    Ned in his famous armour

    neds's end

    ned stamp

    ned kelly armour

    Dusters Down Under Part 3: The Kelly Movies cont … 

  • Life intrudes … The Journey …

    I’m stuck again. A bit.

    It’s fear. It’s always fear.
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    Sometimes I just want to walk along a beach with my feet in the sand and the ocean.
    or sit by a campfire.
    look at the Stars …

    waddie mitchell cowboy poet

    all these things stop my mind. they are primal and make me know that Life is all something so precious and very special.
    my ‘little self’ can never understand encompass it. but here I feel ‘connected’. at peace.
    so we try … with our arms open wide.
    to understand the plan … and our place … in all this
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    tomorrow i go back to work. i’ve essentially taken 6 months off since i quit my job as a security guard doing 12 hour night shifts for 4 years – which was killing me.
    (shoulda quit that job 2 years before i did).
    meanwhile my pension has kicked in. and everybody was right: you can’t live on it.
    so back to work.

    i’m going to be a Greeter at a huge appliance/hardware/home building place. it’s not as anaemic as it sounds – actually useful – as 80 percent of the people that come in the door don’t know where to find what they’re looking for.
    i don’t know either. yet.
    so i’m worried … and nervous. hoping this will all work out …. and permit me to survive.
    maybe it won’t. maybe God has a different plan.
    he often does. i might not like his idea, but it’s usually better than mine.
    i just can’t see the big picture. yet.
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    in looking at my blog … it’s mind bloggling.
    i got all this Ned Kelly stuff. and i wonder: is anybody really interested? would anybody really care?

    1906 The Story Of The Kelly Gang
    1920 The Kelly Gang
    1923 When The Kellys Were Out
    1934 When The Kellys Rode
    1951 The Glenrowan Affair
    1960 Stringybark Massacre
    1960 Ned Kelly
    1970 Ned Kelly
    1993 Reckless Kelly
    2003 Ned Kelly
    2003 Ned

    how much should i use? how deep should i go? is Crocodile Dundee a Western?
    maybe i outta just jump over this stuff and go straight to Quigley and Snowy Mountain???
    I’m frozen with indecision … like a jumbuck in the headlights. and no handy billabong.

    OK .. i’ve decided on a smattering of Kelly – some of it IS good.
    Then on to the Classics …

3 responses to “Dusters Down Under: Part 2: The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)”

  1. Marilyn Armstrong Avatar
    Marilyn Armstrong

    I love the hats. I’ve always thought the aussies have the best headgear.

    1. jcalberta Avatar
      jcalberta

      funny you should say that …

      are these the hats you’re talking about?

    2. jcalberta Avatar
      jcalberta

      The Australian bush hat or digger hat, has one side of the brim turned up or pinned to the side of the hat with a Rising Sun Badge in order to allow a rifle to be slung over the shoulder.
      This is still done by some folks even though they don’t carry a rifle.

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