The Story of the Kelly Gang: The World's First Feature Length Film
It was the first dramatic film to run for more than 60 minutes. There are feature-length records of boxing matches which predate it. But who'd want to watch two moustached men with stiff arms trying to biff each other in the most gentlemenly way possible?
The film budget was the $2250 which 100 years ago was an incredibly large sum of money.
Which reminds me of the scene in Bowfinger when Jamie Kennedy's character Dave points out to Steve Martin's Bowfinger that movies cost millions of dollars to make.
His reply being: "That's after gross net deduction profit percentage deferment ten percent of the nut. Cash, every movie cost $2,184."
It would seem that either the extra $66 was spent on advertising the film or The Story of the Kelly Gang is still the most expensive film ever made.
Published by Glen F
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Post a CommentThis was such a great movie%21 I had to go to so many stores to find it.