Historic short films of early Melbourne, 1910-1947
Posted: September 5, 2010 Filed under: Miscellaneous | Tags: Beautiful Melbourne, film, history, Marvellous Melbourne, Melbourne Today, Screen Australia, traffic Leave a comment
Melbourne Today 1931
There’s a wonderful video of Melbourne in 1931, Melbourne Today, put up by Gillian over at Melbourne Curious. This inspired me to track its original source to the Screen Australia web site where there are literally hundreds of films on diverse aspects of Australian life dating from the end of the nineteenth century.
I went looking for films with a specifically Melbourne urban perspective and picked out these four:
Marvellous Melbourne, circa 1910
City traffic in variable moods, circa 1920
Melbourne Today was made by F.W. Thring, renowned Melbourne film maker and father of Aussie film legend Frank Thring (who memorably appeared as Pontius Pilate in the 50s sword and sandals epic, Ben Hur). More over the leaf…..
And there’s an ironic take on Marvellous Melbourne here.
Beautiful Melbourne 1947
City traffic in variable moods, C1920
Marvellous Melbourne, C1910
The Melbourne Urbanist 