The Great Kimberley Diamond Robbery

South Africa’s first fictional film, it was photographed and directed by R.C.E. Nissen for the Springbok Film Co. and was first screened at both the Tivoli (afternoon) and Orpheum (evening) in Johannesburg on 11 December 1911.

Writing in the Sunday Times of 21 June 1914, Nissen describes the shooting of the film on a Sunday afternoon in October of that year at Fountains Valley, outside Pretoria.