Besides being the subject of the world's first feature film (The Story of the Kelly Gang, 1906), Ned Kelly has been the focus of more feature films than probably any other Australian historical figure.

Director Harry Southwell dramatised the Kelly legend on film no fewer than four times (1920, 1923, 1934, 1947)!  This presentation will feature the surviving fragments of Southwell's second foray, When the Kellys Were Out, released in Britain in 1923 as The True Story of the Kelly Gang. Shot in the now vanished Burragorang Valley, west of Sydney, it is rarely seen today.

Like most other bushranging films during the silent and early sound eras, it attracted the ire of the censor and was banned for a time. After the screening Join CMAG Director Shane Breynard for an introduction to Sir Sidney Nolan’s iconic Kelly paintings displayed in CMAG’s Nolan Foundation Collection exhibition.