Brims family motion pictures

Home movie footage relating to the Brims family: There are a number of scenes of the family in their yard at White Street, Milton, and later at Ekibin Rd, Annerley. This footage includes parties and party games, cricket matches, dress-ups, a swing (made of Brims plywood), toy planes and cars, flower gardens and cycling. There are also a number of trips to Suttons Beach at Redcliffe, and picnics and bushwalks. Other scenes of note include the first Kyogle train coming through Brisbane suburbs, 1930 (30:13); Flooded streets in Milton including footage of the Brims factory and Plume petrol station on Coronation Drive, 1920s (32:10); Sand garden competition at Redcliffe including Beulah Brims as an entrant, early 1930s (46:37); Large street procession passing through Brisbane streets, ca 1930 (48:35); Maypole dancing at the Brisbane Exhibition Grounds, ca 1930 (51:23); Brims family sawmill at Yeerongpilly, ca. 1932 (52:20).
 

Home movie footage relating to the Brims family including: A congregational women's association dance group practicing, mid 1930s (0:00); Sunday School picnic with games and competitions, 1930s (3:30); Brims sawmill at Gallangowan, west of Imbil. This footage includes views of the mill, workers, work camps, construction, road-making, logging hoop pine, an early Caterpillar tractor towing cars and logs. The tractor is also shown pulling a grader weighed down by four men in the process of building a road, 1930s (15:20); Tobacco harvesting and processing, probably in Mareeba district. Includes footage of drying buildings, 1930s (29:50); Views from Kuranda Rail, 1930s (31:30); Scenes from Brims Yeerongpilly factory showing loading butter boxes onto trucks and processing plywood inside the factory including steaming logs and veneer peeling, 1930s (32:40); Timber transporting machinery on wharves - most likely interstate (37:32); Filled butter boxes on a conveyor belt at a butter facility on the wharves near Eagle Farm, 1930s (39:39); Colour footage of the Brims family at their house at Ekibin Road, Annerley and on family outings, early 1940s (from 41:20).
 

Home movie footage relating to the Brims family including: The wedding of Wendy Lack at Albert Street Methodist Church, Brisbane. Royal Brims was a bridesmaid at the wedding, early 1950s (0:00); Laboratory at Brims Yeerongpilly plywood factory, 1950s (5:30); Playing tennis at the Brims family house at Ekibin Road, Annerley (9:24); The wedding of Pamela Brims and John Bouma - filmed at Ekibin Road, ca 1961 (11:30); Gold Coast coastal and hinterland views including Surfers Paradise, ca 1950s/1960s (16:00); Marcus Brims in his house and yard at Ekibin Road, Annerley, 1970s (20:30).