Scenes of Queen Street and Victoria Bridge, Brisbane, 1899 (1899)
Length: 52 seconds
Taken from the historical footage collection Lumière Collection
Synopsis
This actuality footage, shot in 1899, shows electric trams in Queen Street, Brisbane with the Treasury building and Victoria Bridge in the background.
Curator’s notes
These surviving seconds of actuality footage were shot by the official photographer of the Queensland Department of Agriculture, Frederick Charles Wills and his assistant, Henry William Mobsby, using an original Lumière Cinematographe. It captures a busy Brisbane intersection.
According to Chris Long and Pat Laughren’s article ‘Australia’s First Films’ (Cinema Papers 1993, vol. 96, p. 37), this film was probably screened for the Queensland Amateur Photographic Society, along with a few other films including Roma Street Station and Brisbane and the Opening of Queensland Parliament.
Original aspect ratio: 1.33:1 (Academy full frame)
| Production company | Queensland Department of Agriculture |
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Acknowledgements
By arrangement with the Queensland Museum.
