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Pronounced "Gatherer", but, hey, it's web 2.0 and we leave the last
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name is Tony Johansen. I am an artist. I like art and science and
poetry and books and history and technology and lots more besides.
Every day I am excited by the marvelous things I see in this wonderful
world and beyond. I love the Internet for giving me access to so much.
I am like a sponge for wondrous things or things that make me wonder. This site is really just a
scrapbook. Being on the web, however, means being able to share the
treasures I find. That's me, Tony Johansen, artist who likes to share
my excitement of being alive.




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    FIRST FEATURE LENGTH FILM: THE STORY OF THE KELLY GANG, 1906 (70 mins)This Australian film was more than double the length of any previous movie footage and established the desireable length for a movie. It was long enough to tell a complex story, and fitting in well with commercial objectives enabling tickets to be sold for a few “shorts” and then a main feature. The feature films that followed such as L’enfant Prodigue (France 1907) and The Birth Of A Nation (USA 1915) were all at least this length or longer.The Story Of The Kelly Gang cost $2,250 to make which was considered a prodigious sum at the time. Like The Great Train Robbery it became a hit and played to packed auditoriums in Australia and Britain and proved that the money making ability of The Great Train Robbery was no isolated incident. The Film Industry in a modern sense had arrived. Until 2006 only 10 minutes of it were thought to survive but more footage was discovered in the UK. There are now 17 minutes of the film restored and viewable.

    FIRST FEATURE LENGTH FILM: THE STORY OF THE KELLY GANG, 1906 (70 mins)

    This Australian film was more than double the length of any previous movie footage and established the desireable length for a movie. It was long enough to tell a complex story, and fitting in well with commercial objectives enabling tickets to be sold for a few “shorts” and then a main feature. The feature films that followed such as L’enfant Prodigue (France 1907) and The Birth Of A Nation (USA 1915) were all at least this length or longer.

    The Story Of The Kelly Gang cost $2,250 to make which was considered a prodigious sum at the time. Like The Great Train Robbery it became a hit and played to packed auditoriums in Australia and Britain and proved that the money making ability of The Great Train Robbery was no isolated incident. The Film Industry in a modern sense had arrived.

    Until 2006 only 10 minutes of it were thought to survive but more footage was discovered in the UK. There are now 17 minutes of the film restored and viewable.