Based on real life events, the film takes place during the guerrilla phase of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). Three officers from an Australian volunteer unit operating at the fringes of British controlled territory are accused of executing ...
ACTUALITY. The Melbourne Cup horse race.
The race course seen from the middle distance behind a group of spectators at the rails. The horses are seen racing from left to right, camera pans to follow them crossing the winning post (camera ...
ACTUALITY. A train arrives in a station.
A train arrives at Flemington station, Melbourne, coming from the distance left to right, viewed from a position level with the top of the train. The train halts with the last four coaches still in ...
ACTUALITY. A column of Australian cavalry riding down Adderley Street, Cape Town, watched by enthusiastic crowds (90ft).
Note: Filmed by Edgar Hyman, 22 December 1899.
Refs: John Barnes, Filming the Boer War (1992), p 293. ...
This film is a record of two trips by the director to the Torres Strait Islands, and to Papua in 1920-21 and 1922-23.
ACTUALITY. Ranjitsinhji, practising at the nets prior to the First Test between England and Australia at Sydney, 13-17 December 1897. The camera is positioned in the silly mid-off area, behind the side netting.
Watched by a bowler-hatted man ...
INTEREST. Footage shot by A.C. Haddon during the 1898 Cambridge expedition to the Torres Strait, showing a series of native dances.
No credits. (MALU-BOMAI CEREMONY AT KIAM) Three men, each wearing a skirt made of leaves, perform a ...
