[Alexander Sinclair Home Movies: Reel 2]

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The collection of home movies, originally made on Super 8mm film, was donated to ACMI by their daughter Elizabeth Robbins.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 film depicts a trip to the Netherlands and Switzerland, beginning in Welshpool, Wales. It features scenes of “The Dingle” gardens, country fairs, folk dancing, show jumping in Welshpool, Dutch seaside, canal trips in the Netherlands, streetscapes, countryside, farm life, Rotterdam, Spannenburg, bus trip to the Alps, Switzerland, Brienz and Grindenwald.

Selected Highlights List (time codes from Access Overscan)
00:00:40:00 sign “The Dingle” of the Dingle Gardens
00:01:14:00 folk dancing at a country fair
00:02:10:00 horse jumping
00:02:51:00 Dutch seaside featuring people in lounge chairs
00:03:15:00 canal trip through countryside and urban area
00:04:11:00 farm life and creatures including a white peacock, and a young adult in fashionable clothing and clogs holding a skull
00:05:55:00 Commonwealth War Grave sign and cemetery
00:06:05:00 Spannenburg sign shot from a car
00:06:30:00 De Dude Are Museum sign and building shot from boat on a canal
00:07:29:00 in city, people gathering for the arrival of a celebrity
00:07:46:00 three people lining up to eat fish by holding tail up in the air above their heads, in sync
00:07:52:00 miniature theme park featuring tiny windmills, trams, boats, gardens, with one of the boats on fire
00:11:46:00 local market in Rotterdam, possibly; youth fashion
00:14:03:00 bus trip to Switzerland, featuring mountains and countryside scenes
00:16:02:00 feeding bears in a zoo
00:18:09:00 scene of large waterfall
00:20:13:00 Sinclair’s friends having a snowball fight
00:20:58:00 steam train