[Charles Hayes Home Movies: Reel 2]

The Charles Hayes Home Movie Collection is a collection of home movies originally made on 8mm and 9.5mm film between the 1940s and 1970s by Charles Edward Hayes (1914–1993). The resulting footage shows us the life of a family living in Heathmont in Melbourne’s south east with their many pets and farm animals, their family holidays and gatherings, their suburb and their cars as well as scenes from Melbourne at the time.

This film contains some of the Hayes family favourites – their assorted pets including the star of many of the films, Ticka the cockatoo, their farm animals and views of the areas surrounding their home in Heathmont. There is also a brief visit to the beach.

A feature of the film is some early views of Ringwood shops and traffic including good examples of cars of the day and the very new looking ‘Holden Bill Paterson Motors’. Bill Paterson was a successful racing car driver of his era. We also see advertising signs of the day such as ‘Whelan the Wrecker’ and ‘Dickies’ and a vintage ‘red rattler’ train crossing the Yarra so likely to be the Port Melbourne/St Kilda line now a lightrail.

Originally made using Standard 8mm film.