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The Great Kimberley Diamond Robbery
Directed byR.C.E. Nissen
Written byR.C.E. Nissen
Produced byRufe Naylor
StarringEmma Krogh
CinematographyR.C.E. Nissen
Distributed bySpringbok Film Company
Release date
  • 11 December 1911 (1911-12-11) (South Africa)
Running time
15 min.
CountrySouth Africa
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

The Great Kimberley Diamond Robbery (Die Groot Diamantroof van Kimberley), also theatrically as The Star of the South, is a 1911 South African Black and white silent film directed by R.C.E. Nissen and produced by Rufe Naylor for Springbok Film Company.[1][2] This is the first South African dramatic film in South African cinema history.[3][4]

  1. ^ "In Africa, Diamonds Are Forever: From The Great Kimberley Diamond Robbery to Blood Diamond". screeningthepast. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
  2. ^ Fourie, Pieter Jacobus (2001). Media Studies: Institutions, theories, and issues. ISBN 9780702156557. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
  3. ^ "Almost 100 years old and still rolling! The history of SA cinema Part 2". February 2010. Archived from the original on 17 October 2020.
  4. ^ Van Bormann, Mixie. "South Africans yearn for a film industry to call their own". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 17 November 2022.

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