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Building Construction from 1899
Title:
Building Construction from 1899
NFSA ID
251426
Year
1899
Courtesy
By arrangement with the Queensland Museum
This actuality footage from 1899 shows workers carrying away rubble in wheelbarrows from a demolition site. As a man on the site watches, the wall they’ve just been working in front of crashes down.
Summary by Elizabeth Taggert - Speers
This actuality footage was filmed by the official photographer of the Queensland Department of Agriculture, Frederick Charles Wills, and his assistant Henry William Mobsby. The location is unconfirmed but believed to be the site of the then new Agricultural Department building in William Street, Brisbane.
Building construction synopsis
This actuality footage, filmed in 1899, shows demolition workers carrying rubble away in wheelbarrows. A wall then crashes down.
Curator's notes
This actuality footage was filmed by the official photographer of the Queensland Department of Agriculture, Frederick Charles Wills, and his assistant Henry William Mobsby in 1899.
The site is presumed to be William Street, Brisbane, with workers clearing the site of the then new Agricultural Department building. Wills did most of his filming in Brisbane and around Queensland, but also captured images in Sydney.
Notes by Elizabeth Taggert - Speers
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.