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Australian history they didn't teach you at school

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This is a scene from the 1905 Australian silent film “The Story of the Kelly Gang”.

It was the first feature length film ever to be made.

What many people don’t know however is that Kate Kelly was, in some scenes, played by a man in drag. This was one of those scenes.
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  This is a scene from the 1905 Australian silent film “The Story of the Kelly Gang”. It was the first feature length film...
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  I’ve seen some of this at the National Film and Sound Archive. I just love that the first ever feature film made was...
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  doesn’t he have a beard though. wouldn’t that make it kind of obvious? but yay possible great great great granddad...
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