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Higgins, Bryce: Family and Holiday Scenes: 1909-1924 - The Higgins family

This clip shows Ernest Higgins with his wife Else and son Bryce, probably at their Sydney home in Darling Point around 1921. The three of them pose for the camera.

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Higgins, Bryce: Family and Holiday Scenes: 1909-1924 - Mount Wellington, 1909

This beautifully filmed home movie contains some of the earliest examples of home movie footage held by the National Film and Sound Archive. Summary by Poppy De Souza

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Higgins, Bryce: Family and Holiday Scenes: 1909-1924 - Children Playing

Four young children are filmed playing with strips of 35mm film in the Higgins’ back garden.

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Earliest known footage of Australian Rules Football

Moving image coverage of the 1909 VFL Grand Final, the earliest known surviving film of Australian Rules football action.

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Historic footy at Federation Square

September in Melbourne is Aussie Rules footy finals time! The city is abuzz and NFSA is screening footage of one of its most important sporting films in the heart of Melbourne at Federation Square, on the big screen, from  8 to 25 September.