[Charles Hayes Home Movies: Reel 9]

The Charles Hayes Home Movie Collection is a collection of home movies originally made on 8mm and 9.5mm film between the 1940s and 1970s by Charles Edward Hayes (1914–1993). The resulting footage shows us the life of a family living in Heathmont in Melbourne’s south east with their many pets and farm animals, their family holidays and gatherings, their suburb and their cars as well as scenes from Melbourne at the time.

This film shows family holidays and recreational activities including trips to the beach, road trips to regional Victoria, children’s playgrounds (including swings and slippery slides) farm animals, pets and women’s tennis.

There is footage of Melbourne during the 1956 Olympics, showing athletes warming up, relay track events, Flinders Street and St Paul’s Cathedral with Olympic decorations.

Originally made using 9.5mm film.

Selected Highlights List (time codes from Access Overscan)

00:00:01:00 VH INB aircraft flying overhead
00:00:07:00 children and adults on swings and see-saw in playground. Great vintage sunglasses.
00:00:27:00 close-ups of children’s faces at the beach
00:00:34:00 men in 1940s bathing suits (bathers, swimwear)
00:00:45:00 children and adults standing by road signs to Healesville, Narbethong, Donna Buang, Warburton
00:00:57:00 bird’s eye view of 1940s cars on country dirt road
00:01:13:00 stationary 1940s car on dirt road, with passenger looking out window and driver posing in front of the car
00:01:18:00 wooden fire tower
00:02:09:00 children and mother walking down stone steps of picnic ground. Good fashion shots.
00:02:16:00 parked 1940s car
00:02:45:00 country look-out point with telescope and vintage car
00:02:56:00 two children posing for camera (good vintage fashion shots)
00:03:05:00 hobby farm with children and adults patting goats and cows
00:03:51:00 children in birthday party clothes
00:04:09:00 children on slippery slide
00:05:00:00 group of children posing and waving to camera (good children’s fashion shots)
00:06:07:00 farm animals and pets
00:06:42:00 1950s parked cars
00:07:40:00 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games Village showing flags and Olympic rings sign
00:07:54:00 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games athletics track and field event, relay event, including athletes from the Philippines and USA
00:08:12:00 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games street scene with Olympic rings, trams and cars on Flinders Street easterly direction
00:08:21:00 St Paul’s Cathedral with Olympic Games street decorations
00: 08:27:00 1950s Coles shopfront with John Batman quote
00:08:32:00 family members: grandfather and two children (good fashion examples)
00:08:52:00 family pet shots. Patting wire-haired fox terrier, cockatoo.
00:09:19:00 c1940/1950 Women’s doubles tennis match