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- The plot outlined the story of the early Christian martyrs with a compendium of horrors guaranteed to jolt audiences into an awareness of terrible suffering for the sake of Christianity. Contained maulings at the Colosseum, crucifixions, beheadings, savage hackings and burnings at the stake, burnings in the limepit, the spectacle of human torches in Nero's garden. Overall "soul stirring stories of the martyrs, illustrated by the most beautiful living pictures by kinematograph and limelight and never before witnessed in this or any other country.
- In 1901, the nation of Australia was born. This momentous occasion, along with all the excitement and ceremony, was captured on film by the Salvation Army's Limelight Department cameras. The wealth of footage that was generated became the basis of Australia's first feature length documentary. In this rare opportunity, you can see the triumphal military and civic processions, our first Governor General and other important events of 1 January 1901.