Christopher McCullough's Thunderbolt documentary 1965
Captain Thunderbolt : 1951 film | 1968 documentary | Annie Rixon | Copyright | Historical References | Mary Ann Bugg | Script | Compiled by Michael Organ and Graham Shirley Sydney Morning Herald , 3 June 1968. Contents Introduction Production Christopher McCullough Annie Rixon incident References ------------------ 1. Introduction During 1968 Opus Films of Sydney, Australia, produced a dramatized documentary for television on the life and times of bushranger Captain Thunderbolt , aka. Frederick Ward (c.1835 - 1870). The director was Christopher McCullough , formerly with Cinesound and the Commonwealth Film Unit. Thunderbolt was filmed in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, and in and around the Rocks area of Sydney. The last known public screening took place on Channel 9, Sydney, on 29 May 1970. As a "dramatized documentary" running to over 1 hour - or some 90 minutes according to the National Film and Sound Archive o...
