Cultural depictions of Ned Kelly Products manufactured a die-cast "Ned Kelly" repeating cap pistol, which was widely marketed in the mid-1940s. Its design bore no obvious attempt at historic relevance. The distinctive homemade armour Kelly wore for his final unsuccessful stand against the police was the subject of a famous series of paintings by Sidney Nolan. Ned Kelly is a recurring theme in the work of Ha-Ha (Regan Tamanui), one of Melbourne's foremost street artists. Since 2002, he has put up many stencils of Ned Kelly's face in the laneways of Melbourne, which have become an icon of Melbourne street art. He described Kelly as
Cultural depictions of Ned Kelly unfinished "A Message to Kelly" (1947). "The Glenrowan Affair" was produced by Rupert Kathner in 1951, featuring the exploits of Kelly and his "wild colonial boys" on their journey of treachery, violence, murder and terror, told from the perspective of an ageing Dan Kelly. It starred Bob Chitty, a well-known Australian rules footballer, as Ned Kelly. In 1967, independent filmmaker Garry Shead directed and produced "Stringybark Massacre", an avant garde re-creation of the murder of the three police officers at Stringybark Creek. The next major film of the Kelly story was "Ned Kelly" (1970), directed by Tony Richardson and starring