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Tagged: home movies

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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 - 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. 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. The two toddlers and two older children hold the camera’s gaze and medium close-ups of each of the...
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Queen Elizabeth at Flemington races (1954)
Home movie footage by Sir Robert Menzies of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, and their arrival at Flemington horse races. Queen Elizabeth II watches the race through her...
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Dedication of the Shrine of Remembrance (1954)
Sir Robert Menzies' home movie footage of Queen Elizabeth II arriving with Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne. They walk through the crowd to the forecourt...
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Ballets Russes, Hélène Kirsova’s Wedding (1938)
In a series of moving portraits, Ewan Murray-Will films Hélène Kirsova with friends and family at her wedding reception. In the first shot, Kirsova stands with her newly-wed husband, Danish Vice-...
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Ballet Russes: Solo dance on Bungan Beach (c.1936)
A solo dancer performs a dramatic contemporary dance routine on the shoreline of Bungan Beach. His routine contains arm gestures and facial expressions as well as leaps and lunges. As he dances, the...
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Ballet Russes: Solo dancer on grassy slope (c.1936)
A dancer wearing a beret and holding a makeshift cane draws a pipe from his pocket and puts it in his mouth. A wistful dance routine incorporating the props follows. The dancer completes a series of...
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Ballet Russes in Australia: Performing on the beach (c.1939)
This unique and candid home movie footage of members of the Ballets Russes company was taken at Sydney’s Bungan Beach in the late 1930s. Wearing what looks to be Christmas decorations around her neck...
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Ballet Russes in Australia: Dancing on the beach (c.1939)
Filmed in slow motion, two women and a man (Paul Petroff) make human formations on the shoreline of the beach. A woman dressed in black swimwear runs towards Petroff and leaps into his arms. He holds...
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