[Wallace Clarke Home Movies: Reel 1]

Wallace Clarke was an amateur filmmaker during the 1960s to the 1990s. Wallace was particularly keen on capturing both the Australian landscape and the people who enjoyed it. As well as Australian urban settings and some world travels, Wallace’s films focus on the many hiking and camping destinations that he visited.

Often carrying the credit, ‘A Walkabout Film’, Wallace’s movies indicate that he was part of a nature study and walking group called ‘The Walkabouters Club of Victoria Inc’. The ‘Walkabouters’ formed in 1968 as a result of a Council of Adult Education (CAE), Outback Study Tour to Central Australia’. Some of the attendees decided to start the Club in order to continue educative walks particularly around Victoria. The Club encouraged their resident artists and photographers to capture their activities.

The collection of Wallace’s films was donated to ACMI by his widow Gwenda Clarke.

In this film, the filmmaker shows life on and around the beach at Anglesea in Victoria - walking, hang gliding, surfing, motoring in the dunes and on the sand, taking in the views from the cliffs. Wallace focuses on examples of coastal wildflowers as well as animal life where he finds it.

Originally made using Super 8mm film.

Selected highlights list:
00:06:46:00 hikers in the dunes.
00:11:00:00 a large snake in a tree.
00:11:25:00 hang gliding off the cliffs.
00:13:28:00 walkers on the beach.
00:15:23:00 a crab in the shallows.
00:16:04:00 surfing.
00:18:54:00 a jeep pulling a stuck ‘Holden’ station wagon car from the sand.
00:19:30:00 women looking over the view from the dunes.
00:19:54:00 a ‘jeep’ vehicle charging up a steep dune track.