[Wallace Clarke Home Movies: Reel 13]

Wallace Clarke was an amateur cinematographer and filmmaker during the 1960s to the 1990s. Wallace was particularly keen on capturing both the Australian landscape and the people who enjoyed it. As well as Australian urban settings and some world travels, Wallace’s films focus on the many hiking and camping destinations that he visited.

Often carrying the credit, ‘A Walkabout Film’, Wallace’s movies indicate that he was part of a nature study and walking group called ‘The Walkabouters Club of Victoria Inc’. The ‘Walkabouters’ formed in 1968 as a result of a Council of Adult Education (CAE), Outback Study Tour to Central Australia. Some of the attendees decided to start the Club in order to continue educative walks particularly around Victoria. The Club encouraged their resident artists and photographers to capture their activities.

The collection of Wallace’s films was donated to ACMI by his widow Gwenda Clarke and is shot on various formats, predominantly Standard 8mm and Super 8mm film.

This film captures Mount Buller and surrounds, in Victoria during the summer period. There are views of the mountains, trees and wildflowers, a river and people walking and picnicking.

Originally made on Super 8mm film.

Selected highlights list:
00:00:45:00 cut logs on a truck.
00:03:26:00 walkers reach the Mount Buller summit.
00:07:27:00 walkers scrambling through bush and fallen trees.
00:07:51:00 several women sitting on a large log.
00:10:34:00 people walking through very tall trees show the scale of the trees growth.
00:10:55:00 a river view through the mountain landscape.
00:11:22:00 roadside picnic.