The Great Kimberley Diamond Robbery

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The Great Kimberley Diamond Robbery
Directed byR.C.E. Nissen
Written byR.C.E. Nissen
Produced byRufe Naylor
StarringEmma Krogh
CinematographyR.C.E. Nissen
Distributed bySpringbok Film Company
Release date
11 December 1911 (South Africa)
Running time
15 min.
CountrySouth Africa
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

The Great Kimberley Diamond Robbery (Die Groot Diamantroof van Kimberley), also theatrically as The Star of the South, is a 1911 South African Black and white silent film directed by R.C.E. Nissen and produced by Rufe Naylor for Springbok Film Company.[1][2] This is the first South African dramatic film in South African cinema history.[3][4]

Plot[]

  • Emma Krogh as Kate Grangeway

References[]

  1. ^ "In Africa, Diamonds Are Forever: From The Great Kimberley Diamond Robbery to Blood Diamond". screeningthepast. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
  2. ^ Fourie, Pieter Jacobus (2001). Media Studies: Institutions, theories, and issues. ISBN 9780702156557. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
  3. ^ "Almost 100 years old and still rolling! The history of SA cinema Part 2". gautengfilm. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
  4. ^ "South Africans yearn for a film industry to call their own". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 17 October 2020.

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