[KenRa Films Present: the Kenneth Rankine Home Movie Collection: Reel 21]

Kenneth Carruthers Rankine (1890 - 1968) was a keen amateur cinematographer and filmmaker. This collection of his home movies has been donated to ACMI by Kenneth’s granddaughter. The collection represents a wonderful slice of life in Australia; with contents including scenes of everyday life, major family occasions, holidays around Victoria and views of Melbourne.

This film captures the Rankine/Woottons holidaying at Gosford, NSW coast.

Selected highlights list:

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00:00:00:00 to 00:00:05:00 up to this point, footage of a train travelling over a causeway from the mainland which can be identified as the Gosford area on the NSW coast.

00:00:06:00 - 00:00:18:00 panoramic footage being filmed from a vantage point above and where we see the Wootton family relaxed and on holidays as illustrated by their innovative footwear for the time: rubber thongs which were first produced in Australia by Dunlop in 1959.

00:00:19:00 to 00:00:44:00 footage of the bays and the town (presumably Gosford).

00:00:45:00 a prolonged shot of the three Wootton children looking more grown up and confident in front of the camera.

00:01:02:00 the family gather around what is likely to be a metal map on a pedestal for tourists.

00:01:45:00 footage is taken from a higher vantage point again at and includes a shot of fellow tourists at 00:01:52:00.

00:01:55:00 ‘Ploddy the Dinosaur’ (erected 1963) at the Australian Reptile Museum and Sanctuary at Gosford where we see snakes, lizards and other species in enclosures.

00:02:42:00 the family feeding tame kangaroos and cockatoos.
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