FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

Men loading roof tiles into truck. Pan across row of tents and dogs at workers camp site. Brief shots early Canberra suburb and WS Parliament House opening with cars and crowds outside. High angle shot of light horse parade for opening of Parliament House. Pan along white arches of Civic Centre shopping arcade buildings. Tilted pan along names on parapets of commercial buildings. Men in suits entering building carrying briefcases. Scenes possibly in yard of depot, men in white coats cleaning cars. WS pans Canberra suburbs seen across paddocks and rural outskirts. High angle WS across streets to Hotel Canberra, Parliament House buildings from rear view. More white arches of Civic centre buildings, WS Hotel Ainslie, pan rural outskirts of Canberra.

WS Yarralumla, official residence of Governor General, VS flowering bushes, MS young girl holding bunch of flowers. Men practising cricket in nets, batting; group of men inspecting trees in pine forest. High angle WS across streets to Hotel Canberra, men swinging golf club, soldiers marching at Duntroon Military College. VS outskirts of Canberra, old car along road, View of Parliament House. VS mining equipment digging on construction site. Good shot of rows of men working in a factory, pan shops with old Model T Fords parked on street, WS old fashioned petrol pump on roadside.

Canberra schoolchildren doing lessons on outdoor benches, VS school, children leaving buildings, walking through corridors. Girls playing basketball and hockey, good shots of boys playing tunnel ball & overhead ball game. Children leaving school and boarding old Model T car-style bus. WS children in bus. Mother with cane pram leaving house and posing with family for photograph. WS house with roof under construction. Car on country road, pans countryside. Men walking around empty ponds. Men working in open mine with picks and shovels and loading horse-drawn cart with rocks. Miner riding trolley car along rail track in open mine. GS rural landscape around Canberra. GS man sitting on rock overlooking panoramic view.

VS official ceremony of laying Foundation Stone in Canberra, GS dignitaries, men in top hats, 1913. Hon. Andrew Fisher & Colonel Miller talking in crowd, senators Howe, West, Finlayson, & King O'Malley. Senator Pearce (Minister of Defence) and General Bridges, The Hon. Willam (Billy) Hughes, Federal Attorney General. Uniformed men lined up, arrival of Governor General Lord Denman by horse to foundation stone. Hon. King O'Malley laying the 3rd stone, pan to other officials gathered around stone. Good shot of William Morris (Billy) Hughes. Light horse parade.

Telephonists sending the news to Sydney, 200 words per minute. Men seated at table working ticker tape telegraph. High pans of rural bush area of future Canberra (1913).