FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

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Victoria - 100 Years of Progress

The development of Victoria and, in particular, Melbourne.
Year : 1930 | Total Duration : 9 Minutes |
Re-enactment of John Batman rowing up river in canoe.
Access No. 39786 | 44 secs | 1930s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Melbourne city, River Yarra in foreground, bridge background. CU street map showing streets and properties, tilt up Manchester Unity Building. Good aerial over people crossing street and trams and cars, traffic.
Access No. 39788 | 39 secs | 1930s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Illustration of Old Collins Street. GS busy Little Collins Street, Melbourne Town Hall, trams, cars. Tilt up to spires. Cobb & Co stage coach with 4 horses down main street.
Access No. 39789 | 27 secs | 1930s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
High angle view of motor coaches down winding road with timber rail.
Access No. 39790 | 11 secs | 1930s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Stream of cars past camera on St. Kilda Road. Large suburban homes in Toorak, Melbourne.
Access No. 39791 | 36 secs | 1930s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
VS electric trains. VS Flinders Street Station, train passes through and train entering tunnel.
Access No. 39792 | 9 secs | 1930s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Train pulling into platform at Flinders Street Station. High angle shot of many people alighting from individual doors along train. High angle shot of people pouring out of station onto street.
Access No. 39793 | 12 secs | 1930s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
High angle shot over crowds swarming around Melbourne's Flemington Race Course. GS track of horses racing along race track. GS crowds.
Access No. 39794 | 20 secs | 1900s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
1845 illustration of wooden Yarra Bridge, Melbourne. Photograph of present Yarra bridge, Yarra River. WS Prince's Street Bridge with rowers on Yarra, people on banks, city in background. High angle view over Henly on the Yarra finishing point.
Access No. 39795 | 47 secs | 1900s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
WS divers diving and somersaulting into River Yarra from Princes Bridge. Ws Melbourne Botanic Gardens with VS ponds and greenery, people strolling and feeding ducks at ponds
Access No. 39796 | 1 min 7 secs | 1900s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
St Kilda Rd POV moving car (1900's) past nature strip in centre of boulevard and tram on the other side.
Access No. 39797 | 13 secs | 1900s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
People sitting on bridge in bathing suits, WS St Kilda Beach and pavilion. Fun fair near beach. Bathers gathered around sea plane on sand. GS people on beach, men in full bathing suits. MS yacht with full spinnaker on Port Phillip Bay.
Access No. 39798 | 40 secs | 1900s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Duke & Duchess York (later King George V & Queen Mary) , arrive at St Kilda Pier for Federation Ceremonies. Pageantry with streets lined with police, spectators, Duke & Duchess in horse drawn carriage. WS Exhibition Building (1901)
Access No. 39799 | 22 secs | 1900s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Victorian troops marching down main street. Aerials over march and crowds of spectators. High angle shots of ANZAC Day march. WS Parliament House. Aerial over sea and coast. Memorial pillar on beach (1900's).
Access No. 39800 | 58 secs | 1900s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Herds of sheep swarming through rural setting. WS palatial residence. Horses pulling harvesters through fields of wheat. Aerial over Mildura. MS fruit tree irrigated, man digging trenches in orchard, and GS fruit pickers. WS Geelong and pan across port.
Access No. 39801 | 57 secs | 1900s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
VS clipper sailing ship. Good MS streamers reaching to dock from ocean liner and WS liner leaving with tug boats, farewelled by people on dock.
Access No. 39802 | 23 secs | 1900s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
CU monument in Ballarat or Bendigo for Gold Discovery 1851. Aerials over town and mines. MS men mining with pick axes and shovel at mine entrance. VS panning & sifting in trough, slosh in muddy water (1900's).
Access No. 39803 | 45 secs | 1900s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
CU sifting for gold in pan. GS men with hand hoist pulling up miners from shaft. GS group of miners having smoko, MS miner rolling cigarette (1900's).
Access No. 39804 | 35 secs | 1900s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |