Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive

Australia 1939 to about 1942

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Description The film consists of travelogue and family footage, opening with an Australian military parade. The parade’s location is identifiable as it passes the Princess Theatre, located in Melbourne, Australia at 163 Sprint St., and built in 1854. Other footage shows the “Anzac Memorial Tree” at the Anzac Memorial in Sydney, Australia. Further shots of the “Footscray City Pipe Band” marching; Footscray is an inner-western suburb of Melbourne, Australia. There are also sequences of a nature trip and backyard family footage. Based on a passenger ship life ring, travel was taken on the SS Orontes, a ship owned by the Orient Line and built by Vickers Armstrong in 1929 in Barrows-in-Furness, England. The film ends with sequences from Phillip Island, Australia, including family beach footage and wildlife. Footage consists of color film stock.
Duration 49:31
Color/Black & White Color
Sound/Silent Silent
Film Stock 16mm

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