Sheep dogs & medieval knights, Australian Gazette
From a sheepdog trial to a costume parade in support of the French Red Cross – the weekly Australian Gazette newsreel captured a slice of Australian life through the war years.
This example from mid-1915 starts with a sheepdog trial at a showground, followed by shots of the British barque Inverness-Shire, dismasted by wild weather off the coast of Tasmania. The third segment (unfortunately damaged by deterioration of the nitrate film) records a parade heading down Collins St in Melbourne in aid of the French Red Cross. The clip ends with the mammoth funeral procession in Sydney for the great Australian batsman Victor Trumper.
Year:1915
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Sheep dogs & medieval knights, Australian Gazette
From a sheepdog trial to a costume parade in support of the French Red Cross – the weekly Australian Gazette newsreel captured a slice of Australian life through the war years.
This example from mid-1915 starts with a sheepdog trial at a showground, followed by shots of the British barque Inverness-Shire, dismasted by wild weather off the coast of Tasmania. The third segment (unfortunately damaged by deterioration of the nitrate film) records a parade heading down Collins St in Melbourne in aid of the French Red Cross. The clip ends with the mammoth funeral procession in Sydney for the great Australian batsman Victor Trumper.
Year: 1915
Length: 03:19
Production Company: Australian Newsreel Gazette
Credits: Australian Newsreel Gazette
Source: National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Catalogue Reference: NFSA title: 1129
People: Victor Trumper
Tags: Australia, sheepdogs, Victor Trumper, funeral, cricket, Red Cross, parade
Subject: sheepdogs, Victor Trumper, funeral, cricket, Red Cross, parade
The Australian Gazette was typical of multi-part silent newsreels, with a mix of serious and lighter news coverage. Sheepdogs trials like the one seen in the first segment had been held in Australia from as early as the 1870s. The British steel barque Inverness-Shire, seen in the second segment, lost three of her four masts in a storm off Tasmania before being towed by a tug into the port of Hobart. The Melbourne parade in the third segment records the strong association Australians have had with the French Red Cross, particularly during this period when Australia fought with the Allied Powers, including France, against the German, Austro–Hungarian and Ottoman Empires. Many of the costumes in this procession depict identities or scenes from French history such as crusaders, medieval knights and the Emperor Napoleon. The final segment shows the funeral procession for Victor Trumper, a popular cricketer renowned for his stylish batting technique. He died at the age of 37 and 20,000 mourners lined the route of his funeral procession, the largest ever seen in Sydney to that time.
Sheep dogs & medieval knights, Australian Gazette
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Hobart, Melbourne, Sydney
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0:00
Sheep dog trials: a dog herds three sheep into an enclosure
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0:33
Intertitle: HOBART: The Barque Inverness-shire towed into Hobart after losing three masts in stormy weather
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0:40
Footage of the storm damage done to the Barque Inverness-Shire including close ups of her lost masts
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1:32
Intertitle: MELBOURNE: Patriotic Procession in Aid of the French Red Cross
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1:36
Street parade: mounted police, brass band, people on horses, in wagons and walking dressed in fanciful costumes (Roman Centurions, Crusaders, Medieval knights, Napoleon etc)
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3:42
Intertitle: SYDNEY: The Last Innings of Victor Trumper. The Champion of Champions
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3:45
Rows of men march in front of the flower laden hearse carrying the body of Victor Trumper