Moonlite was written by Forsyth and the cinematography carried out by A. J. Moulton. In a later interview Jack Gavin claimed his wife Agnes was also involved in writing the screenplay. Moonlite was filmed using the same ensemble of actors in the major roles, with Gavin taking the role of Captain Moonlite and credited as the director of the film. Ruby Butler played 'Ruth Clarke', the love-interest in the film, and Forsyth also acted in the production. Gavin's wife Agnes played the role of the Aboriginal woman 'Bunda Bunda'. The filming of Moonlite was carried out from November to mid-December 1910 and was reported to have involved over 200 people. Another account states that the production involved "over 50 actors" and twenty horses. The film was shot at various locations in and around Sydney and Lithgow. Some of the Sydney locations used in the film were the Grosvenor Hotel, Sydney Harbour off Pyrmont (near Glebe Island), Lane Cove River and Parramatta River. In one of the scenes filmed in late November 1910, Jack Gavin as Moonlite makes his escape from the police by jumping from a vessel into Sydney Harbour. A suitable vessel had been found, anchored near Glebe Island. After Gavin dived from the poop deck of the vessel, 18 feet into the water, "to the horror of his confreres, a shark was noticed making for him". Forsyth, "with admirable presence of mind", grabbed a dog and threw it overboard "to distract the attention of the monster of the deep, and at the same time shouting instructions to all hands to fire off revolvers containing blank cartridges". The distractions were successful and Gavin was pulled aboard. The finished film was 3,750 feet in length and was reported to have been produced at a cost of over a thousand pounds. In late December 1910 Southern Cross Motion Pictures, under Forsyth's management, opened a new theatre in Sydney on the corner of Rawson Place and Pitt Street (opposite Central Railway Station). The theatre was rudimentary, basically an open-air enclosure where films could be shown. An advance screening of Moonlite was shown at the Rawson Place theatre on 30 December 1910 to "representatives of the press and a number of gentlemen interested in biographical work". The theatre was officially opened the following night with the first public screening of Forsyth's new motion picture, Moonlite. During January 1911 Thunderbolt was also shown, as