Passengers Alighting from Ferry Brighton at Manly

Passengers Alighting from Ferry Brighton at Manly is an 1896 film by Marius Sestier of passengers alighting from the paddle steamer ferry Brighton at Manly Wharf in Sydney.^[1] It is the first film ever shot and screened in Australia.^[1] Sestier and Henry Walter Barnett made approximately 19 films in Sydney and Melbourne between October and November 1896, of which this was the earliest.^[2]

Passengers Alighting from Ferry Brighton at Manly
Photograph of PS Brighton arriving at Manly wharf
Based on	documentary
Cinematography	Marius Sestier
Production company	Lumière Brothers
Release date	27 October 1896 (1896-10-27) (Sydney)
Country	Australia
Language	Silent

The film premiered on 27 October 1896 at the Salon Lumière on Sydney's Pitt Street, Australia's first cinema, founded by Sestier and Barnett.^[3] No copy is known to have survived.^[4]