Jeffrey Cage home movies

Home movie footage showing a new born baby; children playing, riding bicycles and swimming; Santa Claus arriving by helicopter; a rodeo; lawn bowls; and a wedding.

Home movie footage of a holiday to the Sunshine Coast. Footage includes leaving home in Brisbane; Beerburrum State Forest and the Glasshouse Mountains; a cane train passing along Currie Street, Nambour; View over Noosa Heads from Laguna Lookout; fishing, boating and swimming in the Noosa area; Gympie street scenes and views; Nestle factory at Gympie; Noosa National Park views including Tea Tree Bay (then 'Ti-Tree Bay') and Granite Bay; and river scenes most likely at Noosaville.  

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Home movie footage showing children feeding birds (most likely at Currumbin); swimming and canoeing; riding horses on a farm; children building sandcastles; Christmas dinner; and children playing with water in a back yard.

Home movie footage showing scouts activities; a dolphin show in a pool; children playing; and children (possibly scouts) rock climbing.

Home movie footage showing a scouts camping trip to Cunningham's Gap including rock climbing and catching snakes. Intertitles follow reading relating to a wedding however the subsequent footage shows boys on bicycles.

Home movie showing footage of family holidays at Noosa and Cotton Tree, including surfing, canoeing and trips on a boat. There is also footage of a boy heading off on his first day of high School and back yard footage. The final frames are of boys in scout uniforms twirling a rope contraption and cooking. 

Home movie footage showing scouts hiking and climbing. Further footage of the boys feeding birds and riding the mini-train at Currumbin Bird Sanctuary and camping, some look like scout trips. There is also footage of three boys heading off to school. 

Home movie footage showing children swimming, boogie boarding and surfing.

Home movie footage showing waterskiing; a wedding; and scouts crossing a river by rope.

Home movie footage showing a formal scouts ceremony; fossicking and mining at Lightning Ridge; Lightning Ridge Artesian Baths.

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Home movie footage showing kayaking (most likely on Brisbane River); Japanese boy scouts on an exchange programme; swimming and skim-boarding at the beach; walking in a cemetery; and a car and caravan boarding a car ferry.

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Home movie footage of the wedding of George Cage and Gwen Cole in Melbourne.

Home movie footage of hiking and views in the Warrumbungle National Park.

Home movie footage of scouting activities. Activities featured in this home movie are hiking, camping and swimming in creeks.

Home movie footage showing views of North and Western Queensland.

Footage appears to be Jeffrey cage traveling to various mine sites for Thiess Brothers, a construction and mining company, who he worked for. Footage features Townsville and the Port of Townsville especially cranes and other loading machines; Townsville ANZAC Memorial Park; Townsville from the top of Castle Hill; footage taken from a train as it passes through Rockhampton; footage of machinery and factories and large scale agricultural equipment. Localities featured in this movie include Mount Marcella, Ban Ban Springs, Moura, Thangool, Pine Beach Hotel and several unidentifiable mining sites. 

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Home movie footage of Brisbane featuring the Story Bridge; Springhill Windmill; City Hall; the Botanic Gardens; the Victoria Bridge; the William Jolly Bridge; University of Queensland; the rose garden at New Farm Park. The footage ends with the Centenary Parade held in Brisbane City in 1959. 

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Home movie footage showing to boys scouts camps to Lamington. The first section is titled 'Christmas Creek, Lamington, June 1961'; next intertitle reads 'group camp, October 1961' and the final intertitle reads 'Running Creek, Lamington, June 1962'. 

The footage is of scouts climbing, hiking, setting up camp and preparing food. The section title 'group camp' includes younger children in their scout uniforms doing more choreographed activities as well as a large group meal prepared by the scouts for what appears to be family members.

The final frames are footage of a group of scouts in their uniforms holding red and blue ribbons that read 'Brisbane South County Rally 1963'

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Home movie footage showing the building of a inboard motor speedboat called 'Wisp', waterskiing using the boat, and speedboats racing. 

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Home movie footage showing scenes from a working trip to Mount Isa. Footage opens with the family waving to the camera at an airport and then from the window of the plane over the wing. The word 'Thiess' is written on the wing of the small plane. The following scenes are of the town of Mount Isa, Lake Moondarra, and machinery at a mine site in that area. 

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