[Raymond Penington Home Movies: Reel 4]

The Raymond Penington Home Movie Collection is a collection of 16mm colour and black-and-white films made between 1938 and 1965. Dr. Raymond Penington (born 1903) was a medical doctor from Melbourne, Victoria. He and his wife Edith lived in Papua New Guinea in the late 1920s before returning to Melbourne in 1931 and settling in Canterbury. They had three children, Margaret, Vivienne and Jocelyn. His home movies focus on family life in Melbourne and holidays in regional Victoria.

This film shows various visitations to South Western Victoria stretching from Cape Otway to Geelong.

The film begins in Apollo Bay and continues with visits to the Barham River, Cape Otway, Mariner’s lookout and lighthouse, Geelong, Carisbrook Falls and Great Ocean Road with the Twelve Apostles.

The film includes many scenic views of the sea, beaches, mountains and forests. There are several scenes with groups cooking food outdoors and eating throughout.

Of interest is the fashion of the time including men and women’s bathers (swimwear) and the wooden body boards and kayaks used.

Also seen is the T&I mutual Life Society clock tower in Geelong with the famous Father and Son figurine bell ringers coming out to ring the bell.

The film finishes with a scene showing the result of rough seas with capsized boats and debris.

Selected highlights list:
00:00:05:00 Apollo Bay shopping strip with old vintage cars
00:01:55:00 horseman, cattle and dogs on the hills
00:03:48:00 Cape Otway Lighthouse and sea views
00:06:59:00 group playing beach cricket
00:08:23:00 Eastern Beach in Geelong followed by Geelong street scenes
00:09:56:00 Johnstone Park next to Geelong Library and Arts Centre
00:10:56:00 Joclyn Penington and older sister with old wooden kayak on the beach
00:11:01:00 Dr Penington in vintage swimming trunks carrying kayak on his shoulder
00:11:19:00 Penington girls in vintage bathers with friend sunbathing and playing around at Eastern Beach, Geelong
0:12:18:00 St Mary’s Church, Geelong
00:13:12:00 Geelong City Hall and former Geelong Post Office and Johnstone Park Pavilion
00:14:01:00 T&G Mutual Life Society clock tower building with close up of the father and son figures coming out of the tower to ring the bell
00:14:31:00 body boarding in Geelong on wooden boards
00:15:24:00 fantail on a barb wired fence
00:19:37:00 group getting their photo taken
00:22:26:00 rough seas with capsized boats and debris at the port