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,
Warwickshire
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, UK – 29 April 1943 in
Sydney, Australia
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Salvation Army
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officer. Born to Joseph Perry Sr. and Eliza Hall, his sons
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, Reginald and Stanley also went on to have careers in the Australian film industry.
Perry helped establish Australia's first film studio in Melbourne, and went on to make several early multi media presentations for the Army's
Limelight Department
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including with
Herbert Booth
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, '' Soldiers of the Cross''.
Perry was responsible for capturing the first ever inauguration of a nation (Australia) recorded on film in history.
Perry initiated the setting up of
Salvation Army
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Biorama companies with projection equipment and electric generators, to travel around the country giving presentations.
Filmography
Australia
*1898
Social Salvation
''Social Salvation'' started as an 1898 series of films and slides produced by the Limelight Department of the Salvation Army in Australia. It was directed by Herbert Booth
Herbert Henry Howard Booth (26 August 1862 – 25 September ...
Inauguration of the Commonwealth
''Inauguration of the Commonwealth'' (also titled ''Inauguration of the Australian Commonwealth'') was a 1901 Australian documentary film commissioned by the Governments of New South Wales and Victoria to record the inaugural day of the Federatio ...
(Documentary)
*1901
Royal Visit To Open The First Commonwealth Parliament
''Royal Visit To Open The First Commonwealth Parliament'' was a 1901 Australian documentary film made by the Limelight Department of the Salvation Army in Australia
The Salvation Army, Australia Territory (nicknamed "Salvos" in Australian E ...
Great White Fleet
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Visits the Antipodes (Documentary)
*1909
Heroes of the Cross
''Heroes of the Cross'' is a 1909 production by the Limelight Department of The Salvation Army in Australia.
Many items from the production were later mistaken as coming from the 1900 film, '' Soldiers of the Cross''.The Scottish Covenanters
New Zealand
*1898
Māori Scenes
''Maori Scenes'' were 1898 New Zealand documentary films made by Joseph Perry of the Limelight Department of the Salvation Army in Australia.
Two or three films were shot about 2 December 1898, just after New Zealand's first film.
The earlies ...
*1901
Royal Visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to New Zealand
''Royal Visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to New Zealand'' was a 1901 New Zealand documentary film made by the Limelight Department of the Salvation Army in Australia.
New Zealand Prime Minister Richard Seddon gave permission f ...
(Documentary short)
*Waimangu Geyser in action
*1905 James Cook's 1769 landing in Gisborne (re-enactment)