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Queen in Australia, The

A record of the visit to Australia by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and HRH the Duke of Edinburgh in 1954.
Year : 1954 | Total Duration : 68 Minutes | Producer : Stanley Hawes, Jack S Allan (Associate Producer)
Director : Colin Dean |
Cinematographer filming a welcome sign made of flowers hanging above the street. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip being presented with items by a Lord Mayor. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip standing on the back of a moving vehicle. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip standing on the back of a moving vehicle.
Titles. Sydney street scenes, pedestrians, people in park, decorated city, crowds gather, huge Union Jack on side of building. CU men playing chess on kerb, people sitting on building parapet. Army marching through street, decorated streets, people lining roadside, shop awnings etc. People shading themselves with newspapers. Officials waiting on dock including Governor General Sir William Slim and rear view Prime Minister Robert Menzies. Large Union Jack flag adorns building. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41093 | 1 min 46 secs | 1950s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Aerial Sydney Harbour Bridge and harbour. VS Royal liner Gothic in harbour, Sydney Harbour Bridge, decorated boats and pleasure craft, some aerials. Aerial over crowds in bridge pylon. Royal barge motoring between rows of boats, gun salute and fly over. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh alight from barge to be greeted by Governor General Sir William Slim and Prime Minister Robert Menzies. Pan of crowds. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41095 | 1 min 10 secs | 1950s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Pan rural Queensland showing sugar cane fields. Pan rural Victoria , reservoir, and man digging in peach orchard. Forest in Western Australia, two men chopping karri tree with axes, tree falling. NSW Blue Mountains and river. South Australian vineyard, CU bunch of black grapes, ship building. Tasmanian dam and scenics. MS kangaroos amongst trees. WS bounding away across scrub. Row of emus walking in scrub. MS koala climbing up tree bough. MS people hand picking apples. Stockmen herding black cattle. Large flock of sheep being herded on plain. Steam train at steel works in front of billowing smoke stack. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41097 | 2 mins 13 secs | 1950s | Qld, Vic, WA, Blue Mountains, NSW, SA, Tas, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Naval Guard of Honour stands to attention, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, approach accompanied by Premier of NSW, Sir John Northcott. High shot over large crowd. CU hand tuning mantle radio. MS Lord Mayor of Sydney making speech welcoming Queen. Queen speaks in return. Shots of crowds. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41099 | 1 min 54 secs | 1950s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
High shots over ticker-tape processions for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip through streets of Sydney, and VS Adelaide, Hobart, Launceston, Brisbane, Perth, Melbourne in open topped cars. Tickertape, flag waving, crowds, children dressed in crowns, school groups etc. Royal Standard flag flying. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41100 | 2 mins 7 secs | 1950s | Sydney, NSW, Adelaide, SA, Hobart, Launceston, Tas, Brisbane, Qld, Perth, WA, Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
High angle WS of Canberra. Royal aeroplane Constellation arrives to gathered crowds. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip leave plane, Guard of Honour salute. WS Parliament House, CUs gardeners hands planting, glass house of flowers, gardener in greenhouse. Mass of flowers. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41101 | 56 secs | 1950s | Canberra, ACT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Crowds gathered for civic reception, view across heads including many holding periscopes, umbrellas and flags. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip walking, crowds waving . Small girl presents bouquet of flowers to Queen and curtsies. Street procession and crowds in Canberra on Queen's drive to Parliament House. Crowds run to best vantage spots. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41102 | 50 secs | 1950s | Canberra, ACT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip arriving and getting out of car, greeted by Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies and Dame Pattie Menzies. Queen wears her Coronation dress. Up steps of Parliament House, gun salute, watches display of children forming letters ÒOur QueenÓ. Enters and is seated in Parliament and makes speech. GS crowds outside listening to broadcast speech. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41103 | 2 mins 44 secs | 1950s | Canberra, ACT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh outside Parliament House in pouring rain, watching march past of troops including troops from other Pacific Islands. Man in tree trying to get good view. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41104 | 1 min 28 secs | 1950s | Canberra, ACT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS fireworks. VS illuminated buildings and decorations (ER, crowns etc) at night for Queen's visit, streets of neon. Taxi with Union Jack flag on aerial, man tunes in car radio, man in bush setting with portable radio, men in suits gathered in club tuning in radio. Night shot yacht, captain looking through binoculars, people on deck dancing, dancers stop to listen to Queen's speech from the State Banquet in Canberra. Pan across faces. Group of soldiers gathered around radio listening to Queen's speech from State Banquet in Canberra, man at campfire listening to radio, family in kitchen listening, elderly man and woman on verandah listening, family in lounge,older family in lounge. Night shot Parliament House illuminated, CU lit up. Fireworks. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41105 | 3 mins 19 secs | 1950s | sydney, NSW, Canberra, ACT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Perspex gates with huge kangaroo & emu coat-of-arms painted on them being opened to street parade, Bathurst, NSW. Girl curtsies and presents bouquet to Queen Elizabeth II. Elizabeth Town, Tasmania with children waving flags, and CU man holding tiny baby. Queen and Duke of Edinburgh on walkabout in Rochester. Queen presented with doll for Princess Anne in Echuca. Crowds with babies in Shepparton. Queen visits vineyards at Mildura. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41107 | 1 min 20 secs | 1950s | Bathurst, NSW, Elizabeth Town, SA, Rochester, Shepparton, Mildura, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Ballarat Victoria, CUs large begonia flowers, small girl curtsies and presents basket to Queen Elizabeth II. Queen inspects begonia blooms with mayor. Looking at sheep in Dubbo, man herding sheep in field on horseback. MS shearing. Wood chopping and boomerang throwing exhibition in Wagga Wagga. Shaking hands with Aboriginal boomerang throwers. Show horses at Toowoomba. Queen and Prince Philip in open topped car. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41108 | 1 min 35 secs | 1950s | Ballarat, Vic, Dubbo, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Toowoomba, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip arrive in open top car to Flying Doctor Radio Base, Broken Hill. Aircraft on tarmac, insignia on building, man speaking into microphone, loading stretcher onto plane and taking off. Queen at microphone. Antennae, old bakelite mantle radio. VS outback landscape including homestead. MS woman talks into radio, husband and baby look on, VS others listening including group of men in outback gathered around truck listening, families, Aboriginal people. VS outback homestead, including aerials. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41109 | 3 mins 38 secs | 1950s | Broken Hill, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Cricket at Adelaide Oval, good CU's faces in crowd. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip watching. Queen shaking hands with Sir Donald Bradman. Vs Prince Philip being seated at tennis match with Ken Rosewall playing. VS Queen arriving to doubles match with Rosewall and Lou Hoad against Williams and Segal. Queen presenting platters to South African winners. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41111 | 1 min 44 secs | 1950s | Adelaide, SA, Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Flemington, Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS Royal Australian Navy ships at sea, firing guns. VS ships. Queen and Prince Philip visiting Balmoral Naval Depot,Sydney. VS reviewing ship's company on HMAS Penguin. Aircraft fly past. Duke inspects Royal Guard at Flinders. Queen reviews Royal Air Force at Point Cook. Queen visits Royal Military College, Duntroon, inspects corps accompanied by Commandant. Consecration of colours, presentation of colours, march past in slow time and cheers for Queen. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41114 | 6 mins 27 secs | 1950s | Duntroon, Canberra, ACT, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip arrive at St John's church, Canberra. Crowds outside. St Andrews Cathedral Adelaide, crowds outside including Salvation Army, listen to Prince Philip reading lesson. Boy Scouts hand out service. VS listeners. Royal yacht Gothic arrives in Tasmania on Derwent estuary, crowds in Hobart, Queen unveiling plaque, Hobart Harbour. CU plaque. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41115 | 2 mins 39 secs | 1950s | Canberra, ACT, Adelaide, SA. Hobart, Tas, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Air to air shot Constellation plane flying. High angle shot of train travelling over aqueduct bridge and through bush. WS royal cars on road through countryside. Garden parties held at Government House (not Sydney). Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip chatting to guests. Queen inspects mounted police in Sydney. Queen takes gift from 2 little girls in Adelaide and meets representatives of woman's organisations. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41116 | 1 min 11 secs | 1950s | Sydney, NSW, Adelaide, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Queen Elizabeth II visiting coalworks at Yallourn and VS Newcastle steel works. Getting out of car at Tivoli Theatre, watching Australian dancers perform ÒCorroboreeÒ. Traditional outdoor Aboriginal Corroboree in Whyalla. Queen meeting Papuan New Guinean Chiefs. Prince Philip at Woomera rocket range and watching launch of rocket. Prince Philip planting tree in red desert soil. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41117 | 2 mins 2 secs | 1950s | Yallourn, Vic, Newcastle, NSW, Sydney, Whyalla,Woomera, SA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Prince Philip visits universities, moving through crowds which are held back by police, opening new wing of Australian National University in Canberra. Royal train passing people along line waving flags, cheering and smiling. Cars driving fast along country road beside train tracks, racing train. MS engine driver. Very good air to air shot TAA Constellation plane, aerial over city, flying over outback and rural areas. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41118 | 1 min 38 secs | 1950s | Canberra, ACT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Aerial over Royal liner Gothic on Great Barrier Reef. Underwater shots of coral and fish. Pearling lugger, family out of Queensland style house, down steps to car. Thursday Island people on lugger. Car along sugar cane road, girl standing on dickie seat waving balloon. Destroyer ANZAC lands queen at Cairns wharf, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip down gangplank. VS sailors. Small girl curtsies and hands bouquet to Queen, Thursday Islanders re-enactment of old war. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41120 | 3 mins 57 secs | 1950s | Cairns, Qld, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
High angle shot of Bondi Beach, Sydney. Huge crowds at surf carnival, march past, CU's people watching, CU corgi dogs. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip arrive, long boards, surf skis, surf boats, POV from boat tipping over. CUs of couples' faces. High angle shot over schoolchildrens' display in Sydney Showground. Queues of school children in uniform into buses, trams, trains and walking, all headed for showground. Large crowds at Sydney Showground, MS school girl looking through binoculars and CUs girls eating and drinking. Queen and Prince Philip arrive in car. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41122 | 4 mins 47 secs | 1950s | Bondi, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Childrens' display for Queen and Prince Philip. Aerials over children forming letters on grounds for Queen. Singing. Good CU's childrens' faces listening to Queen. Queen and Prince Philip in open top car driving through crowds of children. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 41124 | 3 mins 34 secs | 1950s | Fremantle, WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Cannon fires salute, ship in through Sydney Harbour Heads, royal liner Gothic, VS and aerials of harbour with Gothic and welcoming craft. Crowds on deck of ferry South Steyne causing it to tilt to side. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 125946 | 1 min 8 secs | 1950s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS wheelchair-bound war veterans and nurse. MS pan Victoria Cross recipients assembled at Melbourne Cricket Ground for Queen's visit. Legacy children walking in formation across oval in white gym gear. MS royal party watching. Pans VCs in Adelaide. MS Prince Philip and Queen shaking hands with lines of ex-servicemen and women. High angle shot of women of the services parading in Brisbane in front of crowds. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 132203 | 59 secs | 1950s | Melbourne, VIC, Adelaide, SA, Brisbane, QLD, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Queen visiting Rehabilitation Hospital, Perth. GS nurses waving flags from balcony. VS Queen speaking to veterans wheeled outside in beds. Queen and Prince Philip departing in open-topped car. High angle pan over crowds gathered around National War Memorial, Canberra. VS Queen laying wreath at memorial. Queen and Prince Philip laying wreath at Sydney Cenotaph. VS statues of soldiers. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 132204 | 2 mins | 1950s | Perth, WA, Canberra, ACT; Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS men carrying flags at Hobart memorial. Queen and Prince Philip laying wreath. CUs flag bearers and medals pinned to young boy's chest. Queen at Shrine of Rememberence, Melbourne to light flame and dedicate forecourt to those who lost their lives. CUs servicemen's faces and flame in dish. Vs Queen unveiling soaring shaft at Canberra as a memorial to help from the United States. CU dedication on memorial. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 132205 | 2 mins 30 secs | 1950s | Hobart, TAS, Melbourne, VIC, Canberra, ACT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Parade down Randwick racecourse, horse racing, Queen looks through binoculars. Large crowds. VS jockeys mounting horses for Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Flemington racecourse. People queuing at TAB, bookmakers taking money, huge crowds, CU race board, race. Queen presents cup Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 132207 | 2 mins 40 secs | 1950s | Adelaide, SA, Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Flemington, Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
High shot of Queen's car arriving at Fremantle wharf, to the Gothic. Crowds wave goodbye, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip saying goodbye to dignitaries including Prime Minister Robert Menzies and Dame Pattie and Governor General Sir William Slim, Queen up gangplank onto Gothic, on deck farewell. School children waving. Ropes cast off. Flyover, Queen waves from deck. Quicktime clip available.
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Access No. 132218 | 4 mins 25 secs | 1950s | Fremantle, WA, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
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