A Visit to Australia's Great Barrier Reef

This film tours of the waters around the Great Barrier Reef showing corals, fish, turtles and other features of the Reef. A highlight of the footage is of local Indigenous people sharing their skills.

Selected highlights list:

00:00:05:00 title card ‘A visit to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef’.

00:13:00:00 further title cards ‘Photographed by Mr Tom C. Marshall’ and ‘Photographed on Kodakchrome Film’. Presumably Kenneth is not behind the camera on this reel as some of it is under water.

00:21:00:00 ‘Part I’ title card introduces footage of family members in shallow reef waters examining corals, at one point with a hand held viewer of some sort.

00:01:43:00 stripey fish appear.

00:03:04:00 parrot fish being examined in and out of the water with a close up of one being held up close, almost speaking to the camera.

00:03:54:00 clown fish and flathead swimming among the coral.

00:04:16:00 title card ‘Part II’ appears followed by a close up of a giant clam and various sea creatures crawling along the seabed floor.

00:05:03:00 footage of shell seekers and shell collections including giant species held up to the camera for close inspection.

00:06:40:00 very large colourful sea urchin held close to camera followed by a long legged starfish and several sea snakes or eels.

00:08:35:00 large sea slug and creatures on seabed floor camouflaged among corals.

00:09:30:00 turtle and baby turtles entering the sea; octopus shots.

00:11:04:00 (possibly) Shearwater sea birds (Mutton Birds) nesting in low lying trees; egg in nest held to camera.

00:12:00:00 waterbirds and seagulls; looking for birds and eggs.

00:13:03:00 title card ‘Part IV’ footage of an island, showing groups of Indigenous school children and young people.

00:14:03:00 local Indigenous person showing us how to climb a coconut palm, harvest and drop the nuts as well as skilfully stripping away the husks with their teeth before enjoying the juice; palm fronds are then harvested from the trees with machetes.

00:16:09:00 weaving baskets from the split fronds.