[Nixon Family Home Movies: Reel 6]

In the Nixon Family Home Movie Collection, married film enthusiasts Les and Dorothy Nixon have captured their family life from when their children are very young to when they are young adults, at home in Geelong, during wonderful beach holidays at Point Roadknight on the Victorian coast, and when going about their everyday activities, from the 1960s to the 1980s.

The films show life in regional and suburban Victoria at the time: playing in the backyard and bike riding down the street (no helmets of course), lots of tennis, lots of beach and swimming, lots of family visits, birthday parties and family barbeques or picnic gatherings. Along the way, the films also record the distinctive fashion (often handmade) and hairstyles of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, through Dorothy Nixon being so stylish a dresser herself, and at the many family weddings across the extended family.

The films are made on Standard 8mm and then Super 8mm film, and are in reasonable condition though a little shaky or damaged at times.

This film captures family holidays at Port Stephens, Point Roadknight and Ocean Grove, Victoria and Christmas in 1978. The family also goes fishing, plays tennis at the Geelong Lawn Tennis Club, attends a family wedding and enjoys some snow in Geelong.

Selected highlights list:
00:00:02:00 Karen playing tennis
00:01:19:00 Karen sitting with a camera shy friend after the tennis
00:01:33:00 Dorothy and Stuart
00:02:00:00 scenes inside a holiday house, perhaps at Port Stephens
00:02:34:00 teenagers Karen and Stuart playing cards on a couch in the holiday flat
00:03:07:00 Dorothy, Stuart and Karen on the balcony of a holiday flat
00:04:09:00 scenes of the beach on holiday, a kookaburra in a tree and some swimming
00:05:27:00 an inflatable ‘Lilo’ mat on the water
00:06:36:00 posing for the camera with friends or relatives
00:07:58:00 scenes of the sea
00:10:05:00 late 1970s wedding in peachy coloured tones
00:13:30:00 more scenes at the beach
00:14:57:00 Stuart in school uniform
00:15:16:00 family members fishing
00:19:10:00 an extended family gathering
00:23:19:00 teenager Stuart gets a new adult size bicycle for Christmas
00:24:12:00 Dorothy holds up her new ‘Barry Crocker’ vinyl record album