Titles tagged with ‘swimming’
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Australasian Gazette – Mermaids Swim Well (c1931)
This Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1931 shows highlights of the Bondi Ladies’ Annual Carnival at the local Bondi Baths, now known as the Bondi Icebergs. Edna Davey ...
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 ...
Australia Today – Man-Eater (1939)
This Australia Today newsreel looks at the ‘silent terrors of the deep’ – sharks. It begins on the beautiful beaches of Sydney, makes its way through the murky ...
Chas E Blanks: Families at Seaside, Sydney Harbour (c1930)
This silent black-and-white cinema advertisement for Sydney Ferries shows children swimming and families picnicking at a fun fair at Nielsen Park and Clifton Gardens.
Darwin c1926 (c1926)
This actuality footage from around 1926 contains silent vignettes of Darwin and its environment including rail transport, recreational activities, local shop fronts, and the multicultural population.
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.
Four Corners – The First Program (1961)
The very first broadcast of Four Corners went to air on Saturday 19 August 1961. There is no record of the program as it went to air but ...
From Sand to Celluloid – Two Bob Mermaid (1996)
A short drama, set in the 1950s, about an Aboriginal girl Koorin (Carrie Prosser) who is fair skinned and gains access to the local swimming pool where Aboriginal ...
Holt – Film Re-enactment of the Circumstances Surrounding the Disappearance of the PM (1967)
This is unedited silent black-and-white footage, shot by the Victorian Police, re-enacting the movements of those who witnessed the disappearance of Prime Minister Harold Edward Holt on 17 ...
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 ...
Little Fish (2005)
Tracy Heart (Cate Blanchett) has been off heroin for four years, when old boyfriend Jonny Nguyen (Dustin Nguyen) comes back to Sydney. Tracy is 32, living with her ...
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 ...
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.
Prahran 3181: Swimming in the Backyard (2001)
The film covers the construction and subsequent use of the suburban public swimming pool in Prahran, Melbourne. Jim has worked there as manager for 37 years. The pool ...
Sons of Matthew (1949)
Irishman Matthew O’Riordan (John O’Malley) and his English wife Jane (Thelma Scott) have carved a farm from fickle acres at Deep Creek, in northern New South Wales. They ...
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 ...
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 ...
Turn Around (2002)
A romantic comedy about a young man who fantasises about a liaison with a stranger, yet fails to see the real woman before him.
Yolngu Boy (2000)
Botj, Lorrpu and Milika are three Yolngu teenagers from northeast Arnhem Land, who are about to become men. Botj (Sean Mununggurr) is estranged from his parents and prone ...
