''Living London'' is a 1904 English documentary film of life in London. It was directed by Charles Urban. The film was released in Australia in 1906 and was a sensation, being seen by over 500,000 people. It was distributed by J and N Tait, and their success with the movie encouraged them to make '' The Story of the Kelly Gang''. The film was thought to have been lost, but ten minutes of footage was discovered in the Corrick Collection in Australia's

National Film and Sound Archive The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national co ...

in 2007 and restored. The website ''charlesurban.com'', however, claims that the footage is actually from Urban's 1906 documentary ''The Streets of London''. New Zealand writer Ngaio Marsh created a mythic picture in her fiction of England, which she romanticized from seeing ''Living London''.Ngaio Marsh: A Life by Margaret Lewis (1991) pp.38

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