Beautiful Middle Harbour

Clip 2: Rooftop party

0 min 55 sec

Taken from the advertisement Beautiful Middle Harbour (1927)

Original title classification not known – this clip chosen to be G

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Please note: this clip is silent

Curator’s clip description

This clip from a silent black-and-white cinema advertisement for Castlecrag Estate, a newly built suburb of Sydney, shows a group of women, possibly including Marion Mahoney, Walter Burley Griffin’s wife, enjoying afternoon tea overlooking Middle Harbour. It also shows a gentleman smoking a cigarette on his doorstep, and a rooftop party on top of one of the new stone houses.

Curator’s notes

This clip captures some interesting footage of Sydney suburbia and society in the late 1920s.

Elizabeth Taggart-Speers, curator

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