Australasian Gazette – First Shipment of Red Cross Supplies to Egypt
Clip 1: First shipment of Red Cross supplies to Egypt
1 min 20 sec
Taken from the newsreel Australasian Gazette – First Shipment of Red Cross Supplies to Egypt (c1917)
Original title classification not known – this clip chosen to be G
Availability of the complete title
Please note: this clip is silent
Curator’s clip description
This Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1917 shows the first shipment of Red Cross supplies leaving Federal Government House, Melbourne for soldiers in Egypt. Men form a chain to transport boxes of supplies down stairs and load them onto a vehicle. The horse-drawn vehicles then leave the depot.
Curator’s notes
This newsreel was shot on black-and-white 16 mm film. As the newsreel is silent, a title card introduces the newsreel and describes the footage that follows it.
Elizabeth Taggart-Speers, curator
