John Alexander Crawford Motion Pictures

Aeroplane VH-UHY. Pilot and passenger, take off and flight. Image of beach.

Streaked and distorted footage of children swimming in pool and playing in garden.

Out takes form home movies. Man feeding parrots in nature park, kangaroo, peacock. View over houses to sea.

Title: Sonja Henie, World Champion Skater'. Images of Sonja ice skating inter cut with titles.

Out takes of home movies. Crowd on dock. Crowd on beach. People playing golf in garden. People on beach.

Scenes of a beach. Shot of car. Shot of woman and girl at back of house. Leader reads: 'Familyitrites'. Shot of Koala. Leader: 'Joan'.'

Home movie film (possibly out takes) of a sea plane landing, crowd of people on dock.

Family and baby at beach - extreme under exposure, image barely visible.

Adults and children gathered for a wedding. Clock tower visible in background. Title in film: 'Wedding Bells, Winnie and Bob, Ann St Presbyterian, 4.30pm Sat Dec 8 1937'. Cars arriving, bride exiting from car. Bride and groom exit from Presbyterian building and greeting guests.

Very short takes (out takes) in home movie. Image of rose, a face laughing from a magazine. Man mowing in garden. Images of trees, picket fence, beach. Shot from a silent film.

Bell and Howell focus leader for aligning image and sound in projector.

Can lid descriptions: 'Ex…' (unreadable), 'Luna Park' and ' Brisbane'.

Kodak safety film leader. Short home movie of baby crawling.

Blank/ Unexposed stock in advanced decay.

Compile of mostly film leaders. Image and title reads: 'A lovely girl must have a lovely home' (magenta tinted footage), followed by shots of a homestead. Leaders only, reads: 'Amateur Cinema League'. Agfa leader. Warn and Jefferson leader.

Film labeled Judy. Images of a small girl playing in garden.

Oro Bay war time/ related (brief) images: scene of tropical tress and pitched tent, shots of a truck, a field, a tank, a sign reads : 'Oro Bay', men digging, cannon and jeep, men sitting on dock (in black and white), brief shot of flowerbed (in colour).

Film contains images of logging taking place in a forest. Scenes of a tractor and large felled tress etc.

(In Black-and-white): Home movie of children playing in garden, in a sandpit, in the bathtub etc. Small elephant and trainers in field. Mother and daughters 'dressed up' in front of house. (In colour): Children swimming in a lake, swimming in a pool. (in Black-and-white): Family at pond with swans.

Film labelled "Buffalo holiday 1938". Film includes:

• Images of people on a skiing holiday in Mt.Buffalo, Victoria; the ski fields, driving in jeep.
• Images of the streets of Melbourne; various buildings including the Melbourne Technical College, tram designated for Spencer Street.
• Images of people on a cruise ship; images of people playing tennis, ship decks and sea
• Images of a female sculptor at work in a studio.
• End of reel contains a commercially released Micky Mouse cartoon titled 'All Hands to the Pumps'.

Film labelled "Darwin 1939-1940".

Home movie contains:

• Images of a farm property with goats and dogs, fields, and wooden houses, building a water tower.
• Images of Darwin; streets with cars, pedestrians and buildings, military aircraft formation in sky, the Darwin Mobile Force building and an officer, a pier, naval officers, military memorial statue and officers with a cannon, military base in Darwin, a safe being unlocked, men carrying buckets, man fixing jeep, view from driving jeep through bush, men on the beach/ river bank with boats (canoe and sails), men sharing a loaf of bread on the pier, Aboriginal man with boats and smoking with military men on beach, military men at shooting practice in the bush, men fencing in backyard.

Film labelled "Buffalo holiday Reel 1".

Film labelled Sydney 1940, Troops 1940, Troops 1942 Thursday Island, Troops 1943 Thursday Island". Boats on bay. WW II ship. Troops marching in street. Troops digging (in Thursday Island). Troops cooking fish for meal. Troops being entertained by accordion player. Local Thursday Island Troops in uniform standing to attention. Troops in bayonet training.

Film labelled "Joan, Graham and Sandra".

Film labelled "The Crawford girls". Home movie of children and babies at home and in garden. Images include newborn baby being bathed, children and baby in garden, children at beach, children and baby playing with cart, children in garden, and children having a tea party with dolls.

Film labelled Institute of Engineers inspection visit of Story Bridge 1938, and Somerset Dam 1938; Grenadier Guards visit to Brisbane 1939; British submarine visit to Brisbane 1939; HMS British ship visit to Brisbane 1939. Excerpt from Charlie Chaplin film spiced to end of roll.

Images of group of people boating. Various boats on water - sail and liner, ship 'Alondra'. Person holding starfish. Large family group posing for film on boat. Wooden structure of ship.

Film labelled "Buffalo holiday Reel 1".