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The Melbourne Cup was a film about the two mile horse race won by Acrasia which took place on Tuesday, 1 November 1904.

Franklyn Barrett filmed the 1904 Melbourne Cup. This was the first time the Melbourne Cup had been filmed from start to finish.

It has been acclaimed as the first horse race filmed in full.

References

1. "The Melbourne Cup". The Advertiser. Vol. XLVII, no. 14, 366. South Australia. 2 November 1904. p. 10. Retrieved 9 February 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
2. "A Maker of Films". The Barrier Miner. Broken Hill, NSW: National Library of Australia. 20 March 1908. p. 3. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
3. Rutledge, Martha (1979). "Barrett, Walter Franklyn". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
4. "letter to Franklyn Barrett from H. Byron Moore". Australia: National Film and Sound Archive. 29 September 1904. Retrieved 10 February 2021.

External links

• The Melbourne Cup at IMDb

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