[Wallace Clarke Home Movies: Reel 5: Part 2]

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 and is shot on various formats, predominantly Standard 8mm and Super 8mm film.

This film is part two of two and is titled ‘Innes National Park’, and contains scenes from the Park, located in South Australia, including the rolling wavy sea viewed from rocky cliff tops of the park coastline, the dunes, wildflowers and beach tracks.

Originally made on Super 8mm film.

Selected highlights list:
00:00:04:00 titles ‘A Walkabout Film’, ‘Innes National Park’, ‘A WHC Film’
00:00:55:00 campsite including an open fire with ‘billycan’, and a tarpaulin being set up as cover.
00:04:07:00 sign for ‘Innes National Park’
00:04:27:00 sign for ‘Shell Beach’
00:06:15:00 shifting sands in a dune.
00:08:04:00 sign for ‘The Gap’
00:08:51:00 ‘Inneston’ sign
00:10:36:00 ‘Stenhouse Bay’