Lightning Ridge in a 1920 Silent Film "The Shadow of Lightning Ridge" →

The opal mining town of Lightning Ridge appeared, kind of, in a lost film that was made in 1920. I can't show you the film, but I can tell you the story.

YES. There are flies. YES. There's wind. I'm sorry. I had one day to shoot this, and those are the scenarios I was dealt. It could have been worse -- if it were a day earlier, I'd have been filming in a dust storm.

The opal mining town of Lightning Ridge appeared, kind of, in a lost film that was made in 1920. I can't show you the film, but I can tell you the story. YES. There are flies. YES. There's wind. I'm sorry. I had one day to shoot this, and those are the scenarios I was dealt.

Some extra photgraphs and media:

Poster/playbill for The Shadow of Lightning Ridge (1920).

The corrugated iron church on the Three Mile opal field, used in the film The Goddess of 1967 (2000).

Signage on the corrugated iron church.

The “front” of the church.

The Shadow of Lightning Ridge on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sha...

Snowy Baker on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowy_B...

NFSA Restores Snowy Baker: https://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/nfsa-r...

Opal Mining 1925 on Australian Screen/NFSA: https://aso.gov.au/titles/documentari...