Freer,C. home movies, 1930s
1930
Freer,C. home movies, 1930s
1930
- NFSA ID01V0E8YS
- TypeFilm
- MediumMoving Image
- FormHome movie, Actuality
- Duration50 mins, 27 secs
- GenresIndigenous themes or stories, Indigenous as subject
- Year1930
- WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and/or audio of deceased persons
- WARNING: This clip contains animal suffering or death
This footage is from a collection of home movies made by colourful Englishman, Cecil Freer. Station owner, horse breeder, cattle raiser and buffalo hunter; Freer filmed the lifestyle in the Top End. This clip opens with the arrival of a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines fixed-wing plane at Darwin Aerodrome. We then see dramatic scenes of Indigenous Australians spearfishing for crocodiles, women playing netball and the submarine, HMAS Otway, entering Darwin Harbour.
Note: this film is silent.
- WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and/or audio of deceased persons
- WARNING: This clip contains animal suffering or death
This footage is from a collection of home movies made by colourful Englishman, Cecil Freer. Station owner, horse breeder, cattle raiser and buffalo hunter; Freer filmed the lifestyle in the Top End. This clip opens with the arrival of a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines fixed-wing plane at Darwin Aerodrome. We then see dramatic scenes of Indigenous Australians spearfishing for crocodiles, women playing netball and the submarine, HMAS Otway, entering Darwin Harbour.
Note: this film is silent.
- NFSA ID01V0E8YS
- TypeFilm
- MediumMoving Image
- FormHome movie, Actuality
- Duration50 mins, 27 secs
- GenresIndigenous themes or stories, Indigenous as subject
- Year1930
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