KELLY, Ned - CROSSLEY, George S., Tony Richardson, & Mick Jagger.

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Archive of on-set drawings made during production. An absorbing collection of accomplished portraits and location sketches by the Australian artist George Crossley (1919-1973), executed during the making of Tony Richardson's Ned Kelly (1970), which "appeared at the beginning of what is considered a renaissance in Australian cinema" and at a moment when Kelly was the cynosure of "related constructions of the Australian past and identity" (Basu, p. 131).The film starred Mick Jagger as the iconic bushranger and he is pictured in two drawings: "Mick Jagger as 'Ned Kelly' addressing the Jury, Braidwood Courthouse 27th Aug '69... Ned Kelly Location Rehearsals" and "Mick Jagger in the courtroom, Braidwood, Ned Kelly location. Aug '66". Approximately 54 drawings are finely executed close up portraits of cast members, extras, and crew (including Jagger's stuntman, Bill Peter), caught during breaks from filming, each meticulously captioned, giving the sitter's identity and the location. A group of half a dozen feature members of the folk band the Wild Colonial Boys, some of whom appear in the film and are pictured in performance.Kelly's final gun fight is recorded in an action sequence of looser pencil drawings: "Rehearsals for the Ambush of Kelly", "Kelly fights his way out of the cutting, emerging from the fog", and finally "Kelly, overcome with loss of blood, weakens and collapses". A single pencil drawing depicts Kelly's famous bulletproof armour. Richardson himself makes an appear

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