Titles tagged with ‘recreation’
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Archibald Family: Noorong Gazette: Parts I - IV (c1927)
This black-and-white home movie compilation, titled the Noorong Gazette, was made by the Archibald family between 1927 and 1928. The footage is silent and contains intertitles.
Archibald Family: Noorong Gazette: Parts IX - XII (c1928)
This black-and-white home movie compilation, titled the Noorong Gazette, was made by the Archibald family in approximately 1928. The footage is silent and contains intertitles.
Archibald Family: Noorong Gazette: Parts XXI - XXIV (c1930)
This silent black-and-white home movie compilation, titled the Noorong Gazette, was made by the Archibald family in approximately 1930. It is one of a series of seven gazette ...
Australasian Gazette – A Unique Audience (c1920)
This Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1920 shows injured soldiers from Caulfield Military Hospital attending a special matinee arranged by the management at Elsternwick Theatre.
Australasian Gazette – Ship Building as Hobby (c1925)
This segment from a newsreel from approximately 1925 shows builders of model passenger liners sailing and motoring their boats on a pond in Moore Park, Sydney. It features ...
Australasian Gazette – Some Sunday Morning (c1920)
This Australasian Gazette newsreel from the 1920s shows a scene from ‘some Sunday morning’ at St Kilda Beach, Melbourne.
Australasian Gazette – Sun Worshippers (c1924)
This newsreel from approximately 1924 shows surfers and swimmers enjoying the first day of real summer weather of the season. It opens with a wide shot of the ...
Browne, George: Blue Mountains: home movie (c1930)
This compile of silent home movie footage was taken by George Browne in 1930 and records the scenery of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales.
Dimpel, Konrad: Canberra and Snowy Mountains: home movie (c1954)
This mute, colour home movie made by Canberra resident Konrad Dimpel shows various scenes in and around Canberra and includes a woodchopping competition at a local country show.
Dimpel, Konrad: German Christmas celebrations, Lutheran Sunday School picnic: home movie (c1966)
A silent, black and white home movie containing scenes from a Lutheran Sunday School picnic, filmed by Canberra resident and amateur filmmaker Konrad Dimpel.
Dimpel, Konrad: Manuka Swimming Pool: home movie (1961)
Canberra resident and home movie enthusiast, Konrad Dimpel captures his young family on an outing to the Manuka Swimming Pool in 1961.
Dimpel, Konrad: On the Voyage to Germany: home movie (c1966)
In 1966, Konrad Dimpel and his young family left Fremantle port for Germany on the passenger ship Achille Lauro. Dimpel filmed this silent home movie of the voyage ...
Dimpel, Konrad: Red Hill: home movie (1964)
This silent colour home movie, captured by Konrad Dimpel, shows his children quietly entertaining themselves over Christmas in 1964. The Dimpel children – Annemaria, Andrew and Harold – ...
Dyer, Frederick Simpson: Milkshakes and Bomb Shelter: Home Movie (c1940)
This 16mm black-and-white home movie shot by Frederick Simpson Dyer features three children riding their bikes in Balwyn, Victoria, enjoying milkshakes at an old-fashioned milk bar, and playing ...
Farrow, H: Victorian and South Australian Holiday Scenes (c1930)
This home movie contains holiday scenes in Victoria and South Australia from the 1930s filmed by H Farrow.
Gerakiteys: Greek Scenes (c1955)
This home movie footage is from a four-part compilation of 16mm silent colour home movie footage of the Greek community, filmed by Emmanuel Gerakiteys and his family between ...
Henshall, Mr: Australian Cricketers Visit Ceylon, Naples, Switzerland and Practise at Lords (1930)
This silent home movie, capturing informal scenes of the 1930 touring Australian cricket team, was filmed by the team’s manager WL Kelly. It shows the players visiting Ceylon ...
Higgins, Bryce: Family and Holiday Scenes: 1909-1924: Home Movies (c1909)
This home movie footage, filmed mostly by Ernest Higgins, includes scenes of a family picnic at Mt Wellington, Christmas celebrations, children’s birthday parties, picnics, holidays and other family ...
Kellogg’s Cornflakes: Tell Me a Story (c1943)
In this partly animated cinema advertisement for Kellogg’s Cornflakes, the benefits of a fast, nutritious and easy to prepare breakfast cereal are illustrated through a children’s story about ...
Kiddies of Queensland Enjoy Outings in their Billy Carts: Rockhampton (c1920)
This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel item shows a group of boys riding on the back of goats and children riding in billycarts down a street in ...
Kraft Cheddar Cheese Cinema Advertisement: Unexpected Guests (c1940)
In this cinema advertisement for Kraft Cheddar Cheese, a woman prepares a quick and tasty snack using Kraft cheese for some unexpected guests.
Life Guards at Bondi Beach (c1929)
A fragment of actuality footage that shows lifesavers marching on Bondi Beach, a demonstration rescue of a person from the surf and lifesaving boats being rowed out into ...
The Maryborough Railway Employees’ Picnic (1938)
This is actuality footage of the Maryborough Railway employees’ picnic held at Scarness, Queensland, on 20 March 1938. Children and families from Gympie, Bundaberg, Kingaroy, Childers and other ...
McIlwraith, Peter: Brisbane Show and Moonbi Park: Home Movie (c1950)
This silent colour home movie, filmed by Peter McIlwraith, is of the annual Brisbane Exhibition (or ‘Ekka’) in the 1950s. It features the showgrounds, crowds and rides, as ...
McKenzie, Roger and Kent, Bernie: Around Sydney with a Camera (1962)
This silent home movie with intertitles was probably filmed by Roger McKenzie and takes in Sydney’s harbour suburbs from Watsons Bay to Kings Cross including the suburbs of ...
McKenzie, Roger and Kent, Bernie: Silent Car Trip Australia: Home Movie (c1960)
This travelogue is edited into segments based around the places and sites of interest that they visited on a trip through South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and ...
Melbourne Today (1931)
The first documentary of Frank Thring’s Cities of the Empire series, this episode is about Melbourne in Victoria. It shows the city’s architectural highlights and public buildings along ...
Pathe Animated Gazette (Australasian Edition): The First Instalment of Australian Notes (c1910)
This Australasian edition of the Pathe Animated Gazette newsreel contains four news items, including the first instalment of Australian bank notes and the opening of the Pakington Street ...
Picturesque Portsea Provides Perfect Pageant (c1926)
This silent footage features a newsreel segment, filmed by Gordon Gidney, of bathers and holiday-makers on Portsea Beach in the 1920s. Intertitles are used throughout.
Sorrento (c1922)
The many attractions of the Victorian seaside town of Sorrento are promoted in this 1920s black-and-white footage produced for the Sorrento Progress Association. Sorrento’s beautiful beaches, bathing spots, ...
The St Kilda Esplanade on Boxing Day (c1913)
This fragment from a silent documentary or newsreel item takes an observational look at the St Kilda esplanade and foreshore on Boxing Day 1913. People relax on the ...
Syme, Ken: Melbourne Olympic Games: Home Movie (1956)
The 1956 Olympic Games, held in Melbourne, was a high profile event for the city. Like many ordinary Australians at the time, Ken Syme took home movie footage ...
Tatler Social Newsreel: Social Party in South Yarra (c1934)
This newsreel made by FW Thring’s Efftee Film Productions contains three items: a society party held by Mrs Lou Connolly at her home in South Yarra; the first ...
Thrill of the Surf (1949)
This documentary featurette shows typical scenes on Australia’s beaches and features the events and activities of a surfing carnival at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. An introductory text situates Australian ...
Training at Rushcutters Bay (1908)
Historical footage of heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson at Rushcutters Bay in front of a small crowd as he prepares for his fight with Canadian world heavyweight champion Tommy ...
