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Roma Street Station

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This actuality footage shows a train pulling up to Roma Street Station, Brisbane in 1899. Commuters disembark and exit the platform via a side gate or walk up the stairs towards the camera.

Curator’s notes

by Elizabeth Taggart-Speers

Frederick Charles Wills and his assistant Henry William Mobsby were funded by the Queensland Department of Agriculture in 1898 to record agricultural processes with a Lumière Cinematographe camera (see Wheat Harvesting with Reaper and Binder, 1899). They shot over 30 films, many of them snapshots of daily life like this one, that were not concerned with agriculture.

Roma Street Station is a major Brisbane railway station and also the oldest, having opened in 1876, so it was an obvious place to film. Wills and Mobsby also shot a short film of commuters on a ferry coming in to dock at Sydney (see North Shore Steam Ferry, 1899) and passengers waiting for a train at Petersham Railway Station (1899) in Sydney.

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