Gerakiteys: Greek Community Picnics 1949-1950: Other segments
Clip 2: Birthday party
2 min 6 sec
Taken from the home movie Gerakiteys: Greek Community Picnics 1949-1950: Other segments (1950)
Original title classification not rated – this clip chosen to be G
Availability of the complete title
Please note: this clip is silent
Curator’s clip description
The Gerakiteys family celebrate their daughters’ birthday in their family garden. Their younger son watches on as the girls sit with their birthday cakes. Other family members are shown and the whole family poses for a portrait.
Curator’s notes
Most of the home movie footage in these compilations was filmed by Emmanuel Gerakiteys, a resident of Canberra at the time. In this clip, Emmanuel is shown with his wife, Agape, and their three children. Home movie footage of migrant communities in Australia is relatively rare, and the close-ups of the Greek family members are a change from the Anglo-Saxon faces which typically appear in 1940s and 1950s home movie footage in Australia.
Lauren Williams, curator
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