COLLECTION OF FOUR (4) NED KELLY A2 LIMITED EDITION POSTER PRINTS

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Up for sale is a COLLECTION OF FOUR (4) NED KELLY A2 LIMITED EDITION POSTER PRINTS with FREE AUSTRALIA WIDE POSTAGE.

• NED KELLY AND JOE BYRNE OFFICIAL ‘JERILDERIE LETTER’ POSTER PRINT.

Printed on archive quality 180gsm matt art stock, this A2 (420mm x 594mm or 16.5″ x 21″) size ‘Jerilderie Letter’ poster print from a distance displays a portrait of Ned Kelly and is ready to frame. Step closer and you discover the entire Jerilderie Letter written by Joe Byrne as dictated to him by Ned Kelly in 1879. Limited to only a 500 print run, the A2 size ‘Jerilderie Letter’ poster print is produced in black text on white to accentuate the image of Ned Kelly.

• ‘THE STORY OF THE KELLY GANG’ 1906 MOVIE POSTER FULL COLOUR REPRODUCTION PRINT.

‘The Story Of The Kelly Gang’ was Australia’s first feature film and a work of ambitious dimensions. Produced by the Melbourne entrepreneurs, the brothers J. and N. Tait and photographed by Millard Johnson and William Alfred Gibson, it had a grand opening at the Melbourne Town Hall in 1906 before transferring to the Athenaeum Hall. The film was 4000 feet long and at a projection speed of sixteen frames per second, this is over sixty-seven minutes of film, longer than any film made in the world at that time except for a few European religious narratives. To add to the reality, noises – hoofbeats, gunshots and voices – were provided by the showmen backstage. Not only was there the ‘full synopsis’ promised in the newsprint advertisement reproduced here, but a programme booklet with the story and stills from the film. The film was a much applauded success and was still being shown years later. By 1906, the Australian film industry was ten years old. The first public screening in the world had been held by the Lumiére Brothers in Paris in 1895; the first imported films were shown in Australia in 1896; the first films shot in Australia were shown the same year. As the popularity of film rapidly increased, there was an open-minded acceptance in Australia of its possibilities in many areas, including ethnographic filming (complete with recorded sound) by Waiter Baldwin Spencer in 1901, but the early straight entertainment films were short newsreels or simple stories. They were shown at the end of vaudeville programmes, or in halls specially hired: the new century was some years old before the first moving picture halls were opened.

• ANDY WARHOL INSPIRED POP ART NED KELLY ORIGINAL TRIBUTE ‘WARHOL’S KELLY’ FULL COLOUR POSTER.

Our tribute to one of Australia’s most famous sons, Ned Kelly, is also a tribute to the brilliance of artist Andy Warhol who was a key figure in Pop Art, a movement that emerged in America and elsewhere in the 1950s to become prominent over the next two decades. In the 1960s, Andy Warhol created several ‘mass-produced’ images from photographs of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe. Warhol was fascinated with morbid concepts. Sometimes, however, the results are astonishingly beautiful, such as the resonating, brilliantly coloured images of Marilyn. On the occasion of Marilyn Monroe’s suicide in August 1962, Warhol used this image for his screenprinting. It was a publicity shot by Gene Korman for the film Niagara, made in 1953. Ned’s image is based on a photograph he sat at the Old Melbourne Gaol on November 10, 1880 – the day before his execution.

• ‘WHEN THE KELLYS RODE’ 1934 MOVIE POSTER FULL COLOUR REPRODUCTION PRINT

‘When The Kellys Rode’ was the third Kelly film made by Harry Southwell, a footloose, independent filmmaker of the 1920s and 30s. The first, ‘The True Story Of The Kelly Gang’, was made in Victoria in 1920. The second, on cameraman Tas Higgins’ advice, was made again from scratch in 1923. It was shot, beautifully, by Higgins in the Burragorang and Kangaroo Valleys in New South Wales, and called ‘When The Kellys Were Out’. The third, with the same cameraman but this time a different actor for Kelly, was a sound film. ‘When The Kellys Rode’ was made in the New South Wales Megalong Valley and nearby in 1934. All these movies ran into trouble with censorship, the second despite its final title: ‘And such is the inevitable fate of all those who rebel against the righteous and mighty forces of law and order.’ ‘When The Kellys Rode’ was banned in New South Wales with the result that bushranging films were not favoured by backers for sometime. The Chief Secretary said he felt enough had been heard about bushrangers. The film was made in 1934. In 1934, Dollfuss was assassinated and Hitler was in power. Einstein had just taken up a professorship at Princeton, Benjamin Britten published his fourth major work, Shirley Temple won a Special Academy Award, and Qantas instituted the England-Australia airmail service, It seems a very modern time in which to worry about robbery under arms. The story of overt film censorship in Australia is studded with lunatic episodes.

All Four (4) Ned Kelly Poster Reproduction Prints are printed on archive quality matt art stock ready for framing and measure 594mm high x 420mm wide (A2 finished size).

We will post in an Australia Post Mailing Tube to anywhere in Australia for FREE.