Delivering ‘Blood on the Southern Cross’
- ‘Blood on the Southern Cross’ is a fully-automated production
- The show is set over Sovereign Hill’s 25-hectare site
- It is controlled by eight computers and seven video projectors
- Some of the dramatic fire effects in the burning of Bentley’s Eureka Hotel were the first ever attempted in Australia on a regular basis
- The show operates with 3,000 lights
- Several 10-metre tall lighting towers house state-of-the-art ‘intelligent’ lights capable of turning night into day
- More than 110 kilometers of electrical control and fibre optic cable are buried underground - enough to stretch from Ballarat to Melbourne
- More than one million people have seen ‘Blood on the Southern Cross’
- The show is available in four foreign languages: German, Japanese, Chinese and French
- ‘Blood on the Southern Cross’ runs for 90 minutes, seven nights a week
Action Highlights
- Images of trapeze artists and acrobats fly across a huge circus tent
- The Eureka Hotel bursts into flames, and rain falls in a blinding storm
- A runaway wagon careers towards the audience, crashing in a ball of fire