Caulfield: a Living City

Australia, 1963

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Weekend activities in the City of Caulfield. Schools, churches, sporting and social service groups keep the city alive at weekends. Activities include the running of the Caulfield Cup, and quieter games such as tennis and bowls. School children learn road safety at special classes and attend the Youth Centre. For the elderly citizens there are “meals-on-wheels”.

(11/2/19 CC) Selected highlights list from MP:
00:00:02:00 Title card with Caulfield Town Hall in background
00:00:32:00 Caulfield train station
00:01:07:00 Caulfield Race Course on Caulfield Cup
00:01:54:00 Caulfield marching girls perform with Caulfield Citizen band
00:03:54:00 Packer Reserve Bike Track with St Johns Ambulance attendees
00:04:35:00 Caulfield Park Bowling Club with men playing bowls and women playing croquet at 00:04:56:00
00:05:20:00 Caulfield Central RSL
00:05:50:00 cricket game on H.G Ritchie Oval
00:06:12:00 15th Caulfield Somers Country scouts packing glass bottles into a 1950’s Holden Ute
00:06:40:00 model aeroplane flying with Caulfield Technical College - now Monash University (Caulfield campus) in background
00:07:02:00 City of Caulfield Memorial Youth Centre with basketball being played and wrestling with up and coming star Don Fitzpatrick
00:08:00:00 Women sewing at the Caulfield Memorial Youth Centre
00:08:38:00 Curraweena homes near Caulfield community hall
00:09:55:00 Salvation Army marches past Salvation Army building
00:10:20:00 Church service at St Catharine South Caulfield, 402 Kooyong Rd
00:11:07:00 Salvation Army band play at Nooralie Private Hospital
00:12:24:00 what appears to be St Aloysius Church with spire
00:12:44:00 Caulfield Park Conservatory and gardens
00:14:00:00 garbage collection from house and people leaving for work
00:14:52:00 shot of Caulfield Technical College now Monash University (Caulfield campus) and students entering the front stair case
00:15:05:00 Kilyington Baptist Grammar School
00:15:30:00 Caulfield South Pre-school
00:15:52:00 Elsternwick train station
00:16:08:00 asphalt laying
00:16:28:00 Sir Henry Gullett Memorial Baby Health Centre
00:16:43:00 Elderly Citizen Club and meals service
00:18:27:00 Caulfield Town Hall inside and outside

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Credits

director

John Freney-Mills

producer

Ewart Wade

production company

Caulfield City Council

Caulfield Film Society

Duration

00:21:00:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
1963

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

001816

Language

English

Audience classification

Mediatheque - all ages (ACMI classified)

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

16mm film; Preservation Print (Section 5)

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