FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

Opening titles. Exteriors Brisbane City Mission. Man interviewed by female mission worker, woman on large typewriter, meeting around table. Shots of poor lean-to housing made from corrugated iron. Two storey house with rooms to let. Small terraced houses. Crowd of people queuing at window, pushing whilst food parcels handed out.

Women handing suitcase with donation of clothing. Old woman trying on clothes. Mission worker sorting boxes of clothes. People queuing, Men entering hall, men listening to sermon at mission, singing. Women wrapping food parcels in newspaper, left overs from cafes. Large pot of tea pouring many cups. Parcels and cups of tea handed out. Men eating and drinking at mission, some CU's

Poor women seated on bench, shown inside mission building for meeting / sermon. Women singing, handed cups of tea and food. Slabs of tripe (meat) being cut into segments. Food parcels handed out to men. Women sewing, mending and altering clothes, by hand and with machines. Woman making rugs from oddments of cloth. Piles of blankets being distributed. Papers signed

Women wrapping Christmas dinner parcels. Piles of parcels. Queues of people making application for parcels. Parcels handed out at mission. Possible state governor or leader handing out parcels. Christmas party, mission superintendent Rev. CS Trudgeon (phonetic) making address, decorated tree. Children outside mission and eagerly come inside. Paper hats, CU's faces. Santa Claus arrives, hands out presents.