A Report on Limelight: The Dawn of Australian Film

The Salvation Army's Limelight Department, Australia's most successful early film production unit, seems a fitting subject for one of the first ABC Australian Centre for the Moving Image Multimedia Accords. The Limelight website documents the story of how the Department began screening imported slide illustrations for lectures, launched into the new media of film, and subsequently created some 300 original productions, including coverage of the Federation ceremonies and the first sitting of the nation