Editing The Story of the Kelly Gang (section)

==Plot==
[[File:Story-of-the-kelly-gang-capture2-1906.jpg|thumb|The Kelly gang inspects a reward notice for their capture.]]
[[File:Dan Kelly Story of the Kelly Gang 1906.jpg|thumb|Dan Kelly cutting telegraph wires]]
[[File:Story-of-the-kelly-gang-capture-1906.jpg|thumb|The police descend on Glenrowan as Father Gibney protests the burning of the hotel.]]
[[File:The Story of the Kelly Gang 1906.jpg|thumb|Actor portraying Ned Kelly in an authentic suit of the [[armour of the Kelly gang|Kelly gang's armour]], which was loaned to the filmmakers and used in the film.]]
[[File:Ned Kelly capture Story of the Kelly Gang.jpeg|thumb|Ned Kelly's capture]]
Film historian Ina Bertrand suggests that the tone of ''The Story of the Kelly Gang'' is "one of sorrow, depicting Ned Kelly and his gang as the last of the bushrangers." Bertrand identifies several scenes that suggest considerable film-making sophistication on the part of the Taits. One is the composition of a scene of police shooting parrots in the bush. The second is the capture of Ned, shot from the viewpoint of the police, as he advances.<ref>{{cite journal
| url = http://sensesofcinema.com/2003/26/ned_kelly/
| title = New Histories of the Kelly Gang: Gregor Jordan's Ned Kelly.
| journal = Senses of Cinema
| issn = 1443-4059
| issue = 22 May 2003
| last = Bertrand
| first = Ina
| date = 16 March 2008
| publisher = Senses of Cinema Inc
}} Retrieved 10 January 2013.</ref> A copy of the programme booklet has survived, containing a synopsis of the film, in six 'scenes'. The latter provided audiences with the sort of information later provided by [[intertitle]]s, and can help historians imagine what the entire film may have been like.

According to the synopsis given in the surviving programme, the film originally comprised six sequences. These provided a loose narrative based on the Kelly gang story.<ref>A copy of the programme is held by the National Film and Sound Archive.[http://nfsa.gov.au/ National Film and Sound Archive]</ref><ref>A scan of a page from the programme can be seen at the blog Classic Australian Cinema: Australian films and actors from silents to the New Wave. [http://classic-oz.livejournal.com/776.html] Accessed 13 August 2015</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=1906|title=The story of the Kelly Gang by the Biograph (copyright) : by J. & N. Tait, Melbourne : the most thrilling moving picture series ever taken.|url=http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/f/1cl35st/SLV_VOYAGER945401|access-date=4 October 2020|website=State Library Victoria (Australia)|publisher=Syd Day|type=Theatre Programme (digitised)}}</ref>
* Scene 1: Police discuss a warrant for Dan Kelly's arrest. Later, Kate Kelly rebuffs the attentions of a Trooper.
* Scene 2: The killings of Kennedy, Scanlon and Lonigan at Stringybark Creek by the gang.
* Scene 3: The hold-up at Younghusband's station and a bank hold–up.
* Scene 4: Various gang members and supporters evade the police and the gang killing of Aaron Sherritt.
* Scene 5: The attempt to derail a train and scenes at the Glenrowan Inn. The police surround the hotel, Dan Kelly and Steve Hart "die by each other's hands" after Joe Byrne is shot dead.
* Scene 6: The closing scenes. Ned Kelly fights hard but is shot in the legs. "He begs the Troopers to spare his life, thus falls the last of the Kelly Gang…"

===Alternative film===
Some confusion regarding the plot has emerged as a result of a variant poster dating from the time the film was re-released in 1910. The similar (but different) photos suggest that either the film was being added to for its re-release, or an entirely new version was made by Johnson and Gibson, as the poster proclaims. In addition, a film fragment (" the Perth fragment ") exists, showing Aaron Sherritt being shot in front of an obviously painted canvas flat. This is now thought to be from a different film altogether, perhaps a cheap imitation of ''The Story of the Kelly Gang'' made by a theatrical company, keen to cash in on the success of the original, or an earlier bushranger short.<ref name= cinema/>