Bennett Family Films

Six short home movies:

• A day with the Family (1956)
• Ghost story (1958)
• Tamborine bunyip (1957)
• Too many cooks (1957)
• Weird world (1968)
• Find the silver (1973)

Home movies and other family footage including:

• The vanishing girl (1971)
• Bronny the fairy (1968)
• Footage at Tamborine Mountain
• Uncle Albert's will (1968)

Home movie footage including:

• Sunday School picnic (1957)
• Tamborine Mountain (1957)
• Trip to Snowy Mountains (1957)
• Toowong Methodist Church and other social gatherings

Home movies footage including:

• Family Album No. 1 (1957-1960) featuring footage at Fairthorpe, Cedar Creek, Somerville House, Caloundra
• Caloundra 59-60 (1959-1960)
• Family Films No. 2 (1960-1963) featuring footage of Fairthorpe, Brisbane Airport, Cedar Creek, Brisbane River.

Home movie travel footage including Round the world in 80 days (1960) showing time spent in USA, Europe, South East Asia. Includes a visit to Rum Jungle, Northern Territory on returning to Australia.

Home movies including:

• 1937 footage filmed by John Jackson at Currumbin Beach
• Undated miscellaneous family footage including Caloundra, Lone Pine
• Carnarvon by Jeep (1958)
• 1961-1962 family footage including Cedar Creek and Fairthorpe
• 1962 footage at Caloundra and a 1962 visit to Armidale

Home movies titled World Trip Parts 1-5 (1964) showing holiday footage in Singapore, England, Scotland, Holland, Denmark, Norway, USA.

Home movies including South of the border (ca. 1963) showing a trip to Sydney and Tasmania; Brisbane River scenes; Toowong Methodist Church and Sunday School activities.

Home movies titled Brisbane 1-3 showing footage of various locations and events in and around Brisbane (1957-1958).

Includes footage of Town Hall, Central Station, Government Stores, docks, Mt. Coot-tha,  Roma Street Station, Storey Bridge, New Farm Park and Powerhouse, Hamilton Reach, Royal visit (Queen Mother), Albert Street Church, regatta on Brisbane River, QLD University, BBC cadets, RNA Show, Parliament and Botanical Gardens, old gasworks, fire brigade training, Golden Circle Cannery, whaling and whale processing on Moreton Island, sand mining.

Home movies including World wanderings 1-2 (1966) showing holiday footage in Sydney, Singapore, Ceylon, India, Middle East, England.

Home movies including:

• World wanderings: Europe and USA,  featuring France, Holland, Denmark, New York, North Carolina
• Family footage in and around Brisbane including Fairthorpe, Tamborine, a family wedding at Albert St. Church.

Home movies titled Family III, 1963-1966 and Family IV, 1966-1968.

Features family occasions including holidays, Christmas, weddings, birthdays, children's sporting events, church outings, gymkhana. Includes footage at Fairthorpe, Caloundra, Tamborine, Cedar Creek as well as London in 1967.

Home movies titled Family V, 1968-1970 and Family VI, 1970-1971

Featuring family occasions including Christmas, holidays, beach trips, canoeing on the Brisbane River. Includes footage at Fairthorpe, Cedar Creek, Tamborine, Lone Pine, Melbourne.

Home movies titled Family VII, 1971-1974 and Family VIII, 1971-1974

Features family occasions including Christmas and holidays. Includes footage at Fairthorpe, Lone Pine, The Gap, Cameron Falls, Tamborine, Hobart, Adelaide. Also shows footage of 1974 floods and clean up.

Home movies titled Family IX, 1975-1976 and Family X, 1977-1979.

Features family occasions including Christmas, birthdays, social gatherings, holidays, road trips. Includes footage at Fairthorpe, Cedar Creek, Caloundra, Tamborine.

Home movie footage (ca.1958) featuring various family occasions.

Locations include Fairthorpe, O'Rielly's, Tamborine, Northgate, St. Lucia.
 

Home movies titled Around the World in 40 days 1-3 (ca. 1966) featuring travel footage including Brisbane Airport, Singapore, India, Denmark, Holland, England, USA, Canada, Honolulu.
 

Home movies mostly of holidays including:

• QLD Journey (ca. 1968) featuring Anakie, prospecting, coal mines
• Old & New Journeys (1969) featuring Singapore, England, Iceland, USA
• Brisbane family footage (ca. 1969)
• Adelaide Holiday (ca. 1969)

Home movies mostly of holidays including:

• While away (1966) featuring Sydney, Fiji, USA, England
• Rotary Tour, 1972, featuring PNG, Tahiti, USA, Canada
• Family footage at Cleveland

Home movies mostly of holidays including:

• Southern Trip (1973) featuring Adelaide
• Synod trip to New Zealand (1974)
• The Dubbing Trip (1975) featuring Brisbane Airport, Greece, Switzerland, England, USA
• Centre Trip featuring Adelaide, Kata Tjuta, Uluru
• New Zealand trip (1978)

A viewing print of a documentary film made by Merilee Bennett in the late 1980s examining her relationship with her father Arnold Bennett. The film makes extensive use of the home movies in this collection. This film has won several major awards.