well as another locally-made film, Fred Fox, the Snake King, featuring the handling of snakes near Sydney. Later that month Southern Cross Pictures introduced new material, described as a "series of historical, dramatic, and humorous moving pictures". Films shown in mid-January included titles such as A Little Child Shall Lead Them and A Romance of the Rockies. In March 1911, "in addition to the usual instalment" of motion pictures, the Southern Cross Picture Palace included sheep shearing exhibitions and contests "between shearers who have the reputation of being 'ringers'". The Miner's Gift A comment in an interview given by Jack Gavin in 1923 suggests Forsyth may have travelled overseas in 1911 after Moonlite was made and being shown around the country: "Forsyth, having made considerable money, went on a world's tour". If so, he had returned by about November 1911 to produce another film. The Miner's Gift was probably filmed in about November 1911; it was being shown at the Hippodrome cinema in Newtown from 11 to 13 December 1911. The Miner's Gift was a film of three thousand feet length with the subtitle The Fight for Fortune, described as "The Australian Mining Drama". It was shown in late December 1911 at Herbert's Pictures at Islington in Newcastle. It was shown at the Pictoria cinema in Maitland on Saturday, 30 December 1911. The film was presented with "a special lecturer" in attendance. An article about the screening of the film at Benalla in late May 1915 described the plot as incorporating "love, robbery, and an apparent murder by a tribe of blacks, culminating in the burning of a bush home and the rescue therefrom of a digger's sweetheart and a Chinaman". On 18 December 1911 a notice was published in The Age newspaper announcing that H. A. Forsyth of the Southern Cross Film Company had arrived in Melbourne "with the company's latest production", the film The Miner's Gift. The advertisement recommended: "Showmen, get busy and book this money getter". The bushranger ban Bert Forsyth and Mary ('Marie') Willett were married on 2 March 1912 at St. Stephen's Presbyterian church in Phillip Street in Sydney. Marie Willett had been an actress with William Anderson's Dramatic Company, a touring theatre group. In May 1912 it was reported that Forsyth was managing Arcade Pictures at Newtown. By July 1912 Forsyth was negotiating to extend the Arcade Picture Palace to have its frontage on