
Despite the war raging in Europe, communities still congregated to celebrate and enjoy themselves. This actuality footage shows a parade of people on horseback, cars and motor-cycles in streets - plus a stubborn donkey - making their way to the local swimming pool for a day of frivolity. Young men, those that Prime Minister Billy Hughes would have rather seen enlisting or being conscripted into the AIF, compete in a footrace, pillow fights on a greasy pole over water, diving, racing in the the Men's 50 yards Handicap swim and participating in a bobbing cork hunt. The clip also shows unrelated footage of tomato bush tending, dairy cows, a truck carrying milk churns near a Peters Icecream sign, and a road sign saying Trafalgar (Vic).
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.