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Tagged: Queensland
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After the coup has been foiled, Stacey (Ray Barrett) meets Cathy, the child/woman (Janet Scrivener), at a café. As her godfather, he had given her a golliwog, when she was eight. Now he buys her...
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Stacey (Ray Barrett) goes to a separatist political rally, looking for the missing girl, Cathy McCredie (Janet Scrivener). He listens to Sir Ted Godfrey (Robert 'Tex’ Morton), the state MP, make a...
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Michael Stacey (Ray Barrett) introduces himself and his milieu – the beautiful beach of Surfer’s Paradise on the Gold Coast and a town full of ugly buildings. He is a once drunken, now disgraced,...
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An animated sketch demonstrates how the harvester elevates, tops and collects cane, illustrating all the major parts of the machine that aid this process. A live-action demonstration follows, broken...
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Brisbane only had 600,000 inhabitants. How many of them smoked their pipes on the tram?
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This silent actuality footage was taken by the official photographer of the Queensland Department of Agriculture, Frederick Charles Wills, and his assistant Henry William Mobsby in 1899. It shows a...
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This short film is actuality footage of Lord Lamington, Governor of Queensland, arriving by horse-drawn carriage to open Queensland Parliament on 18 May 1899. The carriage is escorted by members of...
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Late 1940s in the industrial centre of Ipswich, Queensland. A look at everyday life featuring railway workshops, woollen and timber mills, coal mining, schools, housing, food, local shops and sports...
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This footage from 20 March 1938 is from the Maryborough Railway employees’ picnic held at Scarness, Queensland.
Children and families from Gympie, Bundaberg, Kingaroy, Childers and other south-east...
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A portrait of the sub-tropical city of Brisbane, Queensland in the mid 1950s. Queensland's capital city lies near the sub-tropical parts of Australia and its way-of-life has a more leisurely tempo....