A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

About This Listing Report Omissions or Errors in This Listing

A Message from Mars
(1903) New Zealand
B&W : One reel / 800 feet
Directed by [?] W.F. Brown and/or Franklyn Barrett?

Cast: (unknown)

Produced by Franklyn Barrett. From the play A Message from Mars by Richard Ganthoney. Cinematography by Franklyn Barrett. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The first New Zealand fiction film. The play was subsequently filmed as A Message from Mars (1913).

Comedy.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Listing updated: 7 December 2024.

References: Robertson-Guinness p. 9; Shirley-Australian pp. 38-39, 275, 284 : Website-IMDb.