[Raymond Penington Home Movies: Reel 6]

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 the construction site during the expansion of the Eildon Dam.

The film shows many construction vehicles including cranes, trucks and bulldozers.

At the beginning of the film we see a crane has fallen over and attempts to raise it up again. However, the conclusion is not seen.

There is also a scene of the Lake Eildon Tower shown almost complete.

Most of the film shows machines redistributing dirt. A sign in the film indicates that 9,000,000 tons of soil was planned to be moved.

Selected highlights list:
00:00:02:00 Big Eildon Project sign
00:00:13:00 view of Eildon Lake
00:00:36:00 scene of crane that has fallen down a bank
00:00:42:00 bulldozers
00:01:07:00 sign indicating Spillway Site - Max Depth 300 Feet – rock excavation 9,000,000 tons
00:01:32:00 loading of dirt onto trucks
00:05:04:00 the Eildon Tower under construction
00:05:37:00 night shot of bulldozer