[Raymond Penington Home Movies: Reel 3]

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.

Travelling between Port Campbell in Victoria and South Australia’s Port McDonnell, this film follows the Penington family’s trip along the West Victorian coastline.

Included are the Port Campbell cliffs, Great Ocean Road’s ‘The Blow Hole’, ‘Loch Ard Gorge’ and ‘London Bridge’ (now known as the London Arch and the Twelve Apostles).

Other places visited include Warrnambool, Port Fairy, Portland, Mt Gambier, Port McDonnell (SA) and Cape Nelson.

The film shows a number of vehicles from the 1950s and fashion from the time; however, the majority of the film is scenery.

Buildings of interest include the Fletcher Jones Plus 8 building and Gardens in Warrnambool, ‘Hotel Richmond, The original home of the Henty’s’ and Custom House, Port McDonnell.

The film finishes with a semi-fade to black shot of the back of the Penington family caravan and title card ‘The End’.

Selected highlights list:
00:00:06:00 Port Campbell, sea cliffs, Sherbrook River and the Twelve apostles
00:06:13:00 Warrnambool Welcome Sign
00:07:56:00 FJ Plus 8 industries - Fletcher Jones Garden, Warrnambool
00:09:49:00 Margaret and Ray Penington on the Rocks looking out to sea, Port Fairy
00:12:20:00 Margaret, Vivienne and Jocelyn Penington on the docks, Portland
00:12:41:00 long shot looking along Henty Street out to sea with the All Saints Catholic Church in view and old 50s cars can be seen driving along it
00:13:03:00 Pennington girls greeting each other on either side of the south Australian Border Sign
00:13:56:00 scenes of Brown, Valley and Blue Lakes, Mt Gambier
00:16:35:00 rook wall and Lookout (Built in 1918), Mt Gambier
00:19:51:00 scenes of the Penington women walking through Cape Nelson Park