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New South Wales Horse Artillery in Action

1896 documentary film directed by Marius Sestier

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 27, 2024
Entity authorityQ101245323 ↗
Source-derived summary

New South Wales Horse Artillery in Action was a short documentary film.

Marius Sestier made two films of the New South Wales Horse Artillery drill at Victoria Barracks, Sydney.

Sestier together with Henry Walter Barnett had made approximately 19 films in Sydney and Melbourne between October and November 1896, these being the very first films recorded in Australia.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “New South Wales Horse Artillery in Action” as 1896 documentary film directed by Marius Sestier. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1896—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where South, Wales and Horse can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1896 documentary film directed by Marius Sestier. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 27, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q101245323. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1896.

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This entry incorporates text from “New South Wales Horse Artillery in Action” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.