a discussion about: Favourite Home Movies
in the group: Home Movies
Home Movie Day is taking place this year on the 17th of October. The event was created by a handful of film archivists in 2002 and has since been celebrated in local communities throughout the world. In honour of the event, I’d like to know: what’s your favourite home movie on ASO?
Without a doubt mine is On the Beach: Home Movie of the Filming of the 1959 Feature Film The Hawaiian music, light narration and shots of Hollywood stars Ava Gardner and Gregory Peck make it a delight to watch. I love the shot where Anthony Perkins and Donna Anderson sign autographs for patients from the local orthopaedic hospital as Gardner and Peck film a scene on the beach below.
My personal favourite is Minter’s Home Movie of India, featuring the Taj Mahal http://aso.gov.au/titles/home-movies/minter-home-movies-asia/
Seeing footage of locals visiting this site fifty years ago evokes such different feelings for me than my own experiences visiting the site. There is a real sense of serenity depicted here- one that is difficult to imagine today.
I see what you mean beckyw. Clip one of the movie has a similar serenity, with Minter taking in Thailand from a boat drifting down a river. There’s a good example of suburban tranquility (or humdrum) in Sydney’s Vaucluse in the early ’60s in clip 2 of McKenzie, Roger and Kent, Bernie: Around Sydney with a Camera
The Menzies footage Menzies’ Wartime Tour – England especially clip 1 where Mrs Churchill is in her curlers! I also love that Menzies is a bit awestruck by meeting Churchill – a reminder of how Australians saw themselves in relation to Britain – not so long ago.
Tamara Toumanova dancing on the beach in Murray-Will, Ewan: Ballet Russes in Australia.
I like this one – Australia’s First Double-decker Bus and Rail Motor. The trainbus seems like a very Australian idea although I guess it is really just an ugly tram.
[I have a question
Does anybody have a film I believe is called: Jenny kissed me. I saw it on the television-screen back here in Norway. And it`s about a happy little girl called Jenny with an uncaring mother but a loving stepfather. He dies of cancer.This happens on a farm. And I belive the film is from early or late 1940. Not the film by the same name from 1985-86]
Hi Jenny, I’m only familiar with the Australian 'Jenny Kissed Me’ from 1986. Which country was the 1940 movie from?
[I believe it too was from Australia. I saw this movie when I was little in Norwegian television and I believe it was sent in the middle of 1980. They lived in the country and they had some fields to work on. The girl I believe was called Jenny loved the man like a father. And he cared for her and helped her when she was sick. the mother didn`t care for her daughter. And he insisted on getting married before he died so he could be Jenny`s real father. After that the poem of Jenny kissed me was sitated in the film]
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