Dimpel, Konrad: Canberra and Snowy Mountains: home movie

Clip 1: Local woodchopping competition

0 min 48 sec

Taken from the home movie Dimpel, Konrad: Canberra and Snowy Mountains: home movie (c1954)

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 records one of the feature events of a local show in Canberra – the woodchopping competition. Male competitors, dressed in their Chesty Bonds singlets, take part in a race for the quickest woodchop.

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