Frederick Carson Gordon motion pictures

Family life in Bowen 1958. Film includes scenes such as

• Children playing, Birthday parties, families on a beach, novelty sack races and three legged races, view of Bowen harbor, man possibly breaking in a horse, marching girls, and streets of Bowen
• Holiday in Brisbane showing the tourist sights such as the city streets, Brisbane River, airport, trams and traffic.

Written on outside of film: First Post Office picnic, Rose Bay Queensland Cont (?), holiday in Brisbane 1958

• Christmas 1958 including child with toy lawn mower
• Boys playing cricket
• Playground in park
• Property February  1959
• Thurso (?)
• Cyclone aftermath 1958
• Branding calves many severely damaged buildings
• Horseshoe Bay
• Cars and garage Bowen
• Mervyn & Joy
• Tennis
• Helen (baby)
• Christening of baby
• Holiday 1960 – Brisbane sights

Family life in Bowen including scenes such as: a first birthday and cake, man riding horse on cattle station, cattle yards, event with show rides, marching girls, men up electricity/telegraph poles doing repairs with no safety gear, family scenes, beach scenes, birthday cake, playground equipment, post and rail fencing at cattle station and cattle. 

Written on outside of film canister: Mick's Wedding, Helens Birthday and Post Office picnic.

Family life in Bowen with scenes such as: Bowen Centenary including floats and parades, boys playing table tennis, maypole dancing, babies in prams, toddlers, babies in baskets, children in fancy dress costumes, show grounds and crowds, wedding, railway wreckage, child hosing flower garden, possibly a bay in Townsville, Cootharinga, picnic and birthday cake, girl and family at beach, wedding, a boy's birthday and holding new cricket bat and swimming in pool.

Written on outside of film cannister : Regatta 1961, Centenary celebrations, garden party, Show 1961, Cecil's wedding, building a dam, holiday Dec. 1061.

Family life in Bowen ca. 1962 including scenes such as young family at waterfalls and waterhole, wedding, children in scout uniforms, scout parade/event, family in house (low light), cattle yards and cattle being herded across a riverbed or creek bed by men on horseback, children's tea party game, women playing tennis, boys holding up fishing catch, 7 year old boys birthday party, more family scenes, another girls birthday party and dolly cake, cement work under highset house with wooden stumps, extension work on house, Coral Coast Festival October 1962 with floats and parades. Family holiday scenes around Cairns including a jetty, rainforest, Tinaroo Falls Dam, road signs to Mt. Bartle Frere, caravan park and cabins, probably green island and the reef, waiting on train platform next to rail motor, going to Baron Falls, Kuranda, Kuranda Railway Station, Mourilyan Sugar Terminal and a picnic by the road. Catching and killing a calf.

Written on outside of film cannister: Arthur’s wedding (31/5/62), Leslie's wedding, holiday in Cairns (9/12/62), Inkerman Fritz

Family life in Bowen ca.1963 includes scenes such as: an air show, wedding, family scenes with ginger cat, peeling a coconut, Fancy dress October 1963, Festival in October 1963 with floats and a parade, land clearing for dam, birthday party under house. Holiday in December 1963 and 1964, a road trip travelling to New South Wales, taking car on a barge, near banana plantations, fibro cabins/motel, Gwydir Highway, children on wooden swing for two, Lake Eukembene, snow, at the landmark Dog on the Tuckerbox.

Written on film canister: Air display, Bruce’s wedding, Fancy dress October 1963, Festival October 1963, holiday December 1963, unloading cattle July 1964, Fancy dress August 1964, building dam, Helen’s birthday, Festival, holiday Dec. 1964.

Scenes in Bowen and surrounds including: children dressed for first day at school, cub scout ceremony, wedding, family breakfast, two story building on fire(Bowen Shire Hall), family scenes, resorts at South Molle Island and Hayman Island, floats and parade in Bowen, views of cattle station from airplane, wedding, boy's paddling home made corrugated iron canoes possibly on dam, dam, cattle station, two children riding large tricycle. 

Written on film canister: Shire Hall Fire May 1965, Hayman Island, Susan's wedding.

Film showing family scenes such as fancy dress, boy scout with swag, dolphin show, family holiday, child patting kangaroo, swimming in pool, ready for school, a graduation, floats and parades, a birthday party, wedding, floods, picnic, airport with QANTAS plane, young men boarding the plane and the plane taking off.

Written on film cannister: Helen’s 8th birthday party, Ronda's wedding Townsville only (?), Holiday Brisbane 1966 (December), Festival October 1967, Noel joins QANTAS.

Family film with scenes of floats and parade, beach scenes with games such as wheelbarrow races, girls in Hawaiian fancy dress, wedding, holiday in Sydney, views from a plane, picnic, cattle station, old farm house, pilot graduation, floods, cattle, boys with horses, young pilot and family, Mt. Isa from plane, children's birthday, floats and parade.

Written on film cannister: Festival 1968, Alfie's wedding, holiday Sydney Jan 1969, Noel's, graduation, floods Jan 1970, Mt Coolon, Mt Isa, Helen's 11th Birthday, Festival 1970