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Contemporary newspapers indicated that the film went through the following scenes:
- The message of the spear.
- Look for the attack on the Hut.
- Harry teaches the Overseer a lesson.
- A horrible revenge: the Overseer arranges with the Aboriginals to kill Harry.
- To save her sweetheart.
- Arrival of the Police.
- Lovers re-united.
Source:
'West's Pictures', Gippsland Times, 21 December 1911, p.3 (via Trove Australia)
Notes
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Moora Neya was one of the first Australian films to actually cast Indigenous Australians as Indigenous Australians, instead of reverting to the then-usual convention of blackface:
The scenes are thoroughly Australian, and typical of the bush and backblock township life of Queensland, where the incidents of the drama were carried out. A strangely fantastic effect was obtained by the introduction of a tribe of genuine Australian aboriginals, whose grotesque war-painted bodies added to their weird corroborees. This is the first film introducing the Australian aboriginals in their native haunts and war dances.
Source:
'Australian Films', The Advertiser, 19 August 1911, p.20.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
- Darling River, Far West NSW, New South Wales,
