[Alexander Sinclair Home Movies: Reel 1]

Alexander Sinclair (21 October 1918 – 3 May 1998) was an amateur filmmaker who lived in Papua New Guinea with his wife Evelyn Sinclair for approximately 20 years from 1959 onwards. They lived in Port Moresby for three years, followed by Goroka. He made home movies of life in Papua New Guinea and travels with Evelyn and their friends to the UK, the Netherlands, USA, Melbourne and Sydney throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

The collection of home movies, originally made on Super 8mm film, was donated to ACMI by their daughter Elizabeth Robbins.

This home movie shows the filmmaker and his wife travelling around England in a small yellow mini. They begin in London and travel across England to Stonehenge, up through the south of Scotland up to Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park, back to Edinburgh and end up in Blackpool.

Selected Highlights List (time codes from Access Overscan)
00:02:47:00 changing of the Guard
00:05:23:00 Stonehenge – brief look at Stonehenge
00:05:34:00 Stratford-Upon-Avon Cricket Club sign, walking through gardens and a spot of cricket
00:06:58:00 Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust
00:09:17:00 road trip sign to Penrith, Carlisle and Kendal
00:10:17:00 Fferry trip – Windemere ferry, ’The Ferry House Windemere Laboratory of the Freshwater Biological Association Private Gardens’
00:13:15:00 Loch Lomond Sailings Ltd
00:14:42:00 the Elizabethan Inn – filmmaker and wife meet up with three other women at the inn
00:15:39:00 Tormore Distillery with friends – Long John Scotch Whiskey
00:16:56:00 father and two young girls feeding ducks at a lake
00:17:41:00 Roths Glen Hotel – mini donkeys and friends
00:19:11:00 sign to Pitlochry
00:19:45:00 castle or Military Fort in Edinburgh, guards in kilts
00:20:17:00 cemetery for soldier dogs
00:21:14:00 Blackpool