FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

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HNL 1109 : Sir Charles Kingsford Smith

Map of air route through South East Asia & Australia, CU of Charles Kingsford Smith talking to camera (mute), audio begins - being presented with medal for flying achievement, Speech by Kingsford Smith stating proud to be Australian. Sir Kingsford Smith talks to camera standing in front of the Southern Cross aircraft and introduces Lady Kingsford Smith Sound.
Access No. 42324 | 3 mins 29 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Charles Kingsford Smith's wife, son & mother inspecting Southern Cross, Brisbane William Morris (Billy) Hughes & officials waiting in front of aeroplane
Access No. 42325 | 38 secs | 1930s | Richmond, NSW, Australia, Brisbane, Qld, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Mail bags being loaded into plane for first airmail flight Sydney to London, Prime Minister William Morris (Billy) Hughes makes a speech (out of sync) Hughes climbs into plane, plane taking off . Distorted sound.
Access No. 42326 | 57 secs | 1930s | Brisbane, Qld, Australia | © Filmworld | B&W |
Looking down on crowded aerodrome, crowds waiting, crowding around Southern Cross, officials shaking his hand, plane with people climbing all around it
Access No. 42327 | 29 secs | 1930s | Brisbane, Qld, Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
WS plane to camera, Ross & Keith Smith pose for camera wearing flying gear, Prime Minister William Morris (Billy) Hughes presenting medal to Sir Ross & Sir Keith Smith . 1919?
Access No. 42328 | 12 secs | 1920s | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
VS people at ceremony for unveiling of statue, plane in hangar, Royal Flying Doctors Service, aerial of vast property & homestead, family on property operating pedal radio, Doctor at headquarters receiving call, pills given to sick man, doctor on radio, plane taxies, aerial property, air to air Flying Doctor plane in flight, plane at property to take a sick Aboriginal child back to base
Access No. 42330 | 1 min 51 secs | | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Hurricane bombers, planes flying in formation, air to air, dropping bombs. Australian airmen in Burma fighting the Japanese in Thunderbolt fighter planes, POV from plane during bombing raids, RAAF Squadron in Britain during WWII , flying Beaufort fighters . Church army mobile canteen., airmen eating and drinking, plane takes off over camera, aerials over farmland, ms crewman, air to air flying in formation
Access No. 42331 | 2 mins 15 secs | 1940s | Burma, United Kingdom | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |