“Extraordinary” video footage displaying life in an Australian metropolis practically a century in the past has been unearthed.
Most of the movie, restored after Plowman it below his grandmother’s home, was in near-pristine situation.
Plowman mentioned what it revealed was “just amazing.”
“It’s extraordinary. And one of the things I noticed in a lot of the social shots, is the fashion of the time,” Plowman mentioned.
“He took a great interest in filming people.
“There’s nothing fairly like seeing these pictures of individuals really doing issues.”
The footage shows a family cooling off in the Swan River, having a picnic in the Perth hills and the wedding of Harry and Betty Boan from Boan’s department store.
What is thought to be the earliest recorded film of a cricket match at the WACA is also there.
There was still a greyhound track around the oval.
Apart from life in Perth, Roy and his wife travelled the world and filmed New York and the great cities of Europe.
Paxton said his father was born in Menzies near Kalgoorlie in 1907 and later leased the Esplanade Hotel.
He also filmed the first passenger plane to fly a service in Western Australia.
The WA museum and National Film and Sound Archive of Australia are keen to get their hands on the remarkable collection.
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Source: www.9news.com.au
