[Tibor Zoltan Koller Home Movies: Reel 13]

Tibor Zoltan Koller (1920-1975) was an amateur filmmaker who made home movies in Australia and overseas from the 1940s to the early 1970s. Born in Budapest, Hungary, Tibor lived in Melbourne, Victoria with his family. His wife Merna Koller was a frequent collaborator on these films, showing a shared interest in filmmaking.

Tibor captured suburban family life in Melbourne, including family celebrations, urban scenes and regional holidays. Tibor was actively engaged in the lapidary society of Australia. Several of his films show opal fields and gemstone artisans at work, as well as the 1969 ‘Gemboree’ in Beechworth, Victoria, a national festival organised by the lapidary clubs of Australia. Tibor also travelled to Idar-Oberstein in Germany, historically known as a gemstone town, and to Japan.

The Tibor Zoltan Koller Home Movie Collection has been donated to ACMI by the filmmaker’s daughter Vicki Koller. The films were made on Standard 8mm and Super 8mm film.

This film contains three distinct scenes. The first is footage of an arts and crafts show, including jewellery, pottery and sculpture on display; the second is a man weaving a basket; and the third shows children and adolescents in a gymnastics class, practising somersaults, cartwheels and back flips.

This film was made on Standard 8mm film.

Selected highlights list:
00:00:02:00 displays of jewellery and pottery
00:00:55:00 a girl in white cat eye glasses
00:01:51:00 a man basket weaving
00:02:28:00 a group of children and adolescents practising somersaults in a gymnastics class
00:04:05:00 cartwheels and back flips