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Clip description
This clip of actuality footage was shot in 1899. It shows Queensland politicians boarding the paddle steamer Lucinda, moored at a wharf on the Brisbane River. The parliamentarians walk the gangway onto the boat, which moves away from the wharf. A waterside worker tidies the ropes.
Curator’s notes
The politicians are travelling to attend a ministerial banquet, possibly in connection with the Queensland Federation League, on 14 October 1899. The wharf is on the Brisbane River, not far from the building of the Queensland Department of Agriculture, which commissioned filmmakers Charles Wills and Henry William Mobsby to record life in Queensland. Highgate Hill is visible in the background across the Brisbane River.
