Under the Southern Cross (1929 film)
Under the Southern Cross also known as The Devil ’s Pit or Taranga, is a 1929 American drama film set in New Zealand, directed by Lew Collins for Universal Studios, who also wrote the screenplay.
Originally titled Taranga by the original director Alexander Markey, but was completed by Collins and released as" Under the Southern Cross" in 1929, then with the introduction of sound was given a soundtrack and retitled" The Devil ’s Pit" in 1930.
The film was shot on White Island, which has an active volcano.
It is one of four films( with" Down on the FarmHei Tiki" and" On the Friendly Road") which lay claim to be the first" New Zealand talkie", although dubious as the sound was added to the 1930 release in the United States.
Only fragments of out- takes are left.
The film probably has no connection with the 1927 British film of the same name, Under the Southern Cross, directed by Gustav Pauli.
Under the Southern Cross
Under the Southern Cross may refer to:
Under the Southern Cross (1927 film)
Under the Southern Cross is a 1927 British drama film set in New Zealand, directed and produced for Gaumont British by Gustav Pauli.
It is now lost.
The film probably has no connection with the 1929 American film of the same name, "Under the Southern Cross", directed by Lew Collins, and also set in New Zealand.
Ian Barry (director)
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Brian Kennedy (gallery director)
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He is currently the director of the Peabody Essex Museum.
He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019.
He was the director of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and the National Gallery of Australia( Canberra) from 1997- 2004.
Peter Levin
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Henry Ross
Captain Henry Ross( 1829 – 5 December 1854) was a Canadian gold miner at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, and was known on the goldfields as the' bridegroom' of the miners flag, the Southern Cross, the Eureka Flag.
Henry Ross was born in Toronto, Upper Canada, and probably arrived at Melbourne on" the Magnolia" in November 1852, along with Charles Doudiet and three other Canadians.
There is no evidence of who exactly designed the Eureka Flag, but it was Ross who took the design to three women- Anastasia Withers, Anne Duke and Anastasia Hayes- to ask them to sew it and have it ready in time for the meeting taking place at Bakery Hill at 2.00 pm on Wednesday the 29 November 1854.
At Bakery Hill on 30 November
1854 Captain Ross unfurled the Southern Cross and led the march from Bakery Hill to Eureka Stockade; behind him followed about 1,000 diggers, some armed with rifles, many only armed with picks and shovels.
Captain Ross was given the command of a division of miners by a meeting of the 7 captains of the rebellion who met at Eureka that afternoon to organise the defence of Eureka.
Later that afternoon Captain Ross raised the flag on the temporary flagpole that had been erected at Bakery Hill.
Sword in hand, his division gathered at the foot of the flagstaff, the sun going down behind them.
Peter Lalor jumped onto a stump and asked those around him to take an oath to the Southern Cross.
He pointed his right hand towards the Southern Cross and delivered the diggers oath.
The miners shouted' Amen' and then marched back to the Eureka Stockade and hoisted the Southern Cross on a makeshift flagpole at the centre of their camp.
When the first shots rang out at daybreak on Sunday the 3 December 1854, Captain Henry Ross took up his position at the foot of the flagpole.
He was mortally wounded during the early phase of the battle and lay dying at the foot of the Southern Cross when trooper King scaled the flagpole and tore the flag down.
By some accounts Ross was shot 10 or 15 minutes after he surrendered.
Fellow Canadian( Charles)
Alphonse Doudiet, who painted earlier Eureka events, recorded that he was among those who carried the Stockade leader to the nearby Star Hotel, and remained with him until he died" in great pain" at 2 am on 5 December 1854.
Duncan Clark, from the same regiment as Ross, had been out scouting and returned in time to assist his leader to the hotel.
Some 260 mourners followed the funeral procession of Ross to the Ballarat Cemetery.
He was eulogised as" one of the best loved men of those who fell".
The young Canadian digger, Henry Ross, was buried at the bottom of a mass grave at the Ballaarat Old Cemetery, while his beloved Flag of the Southern Cross is owned by the Art Gallery of Ballarat( which stands on the site of the soldiers encampment), and is displayed at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka, the site of the rebellion.
Jesse E. Hobson
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Gustav Pauli
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Olav Aaraas
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He was born in Fredrikstad.
From 1982 to 1993 he was the director of Sogn Folk Museum, from 1993 to 2010 he was the director of Maihaugen and from 2001 he has been the director of the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History.
In 2010 he was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.

Question: Where did the director of film Under The Southern Cross (1927 Film) die?
Answer: Munich