The Len Moncur Home Movie Collection is a collection of amateur films made on 8mm film in the 1950s and 1960s. The collection includes a feature-length film of the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and four stop-motion animation titles: ‘The one-eyed monster’, ‘Storm at the 20th’, ‘One fine day’ and ‘It isn’t cricket’.
Len Moncur (1912–1997) was an amateur filmmaker who made home movies and amimation films. With an interest in radio from a young age, he obtained his amateur transmitting licence in 1928, and served in the Air Force during WWII in radar service units. He purchased his first film camera in the USA in 1935, while on a trip visiting other radio and television experimenters, and began making home movies. He made an amaetur television set in 1950, which was shown at the All Models Exhibition, six years before the arrival of commerical television in Australia. In 1957, he joined the Melbourne 8mm Movie Club, where he regularly screened his home movies at film nights. Moncur’s 8mm stop-motion animation films won several amateur filmmaking awards in the 1960s.
This collection was donated to ACMI by the filmmaker’s son Ken Moncur.
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