[Charles Hayes Home Movies: Reel 10]

The Charles Hayes Home Movie Collection is a collection of home movies originally made on 8mm and 9.5mm film between the 1940s and 1970s by Charles Edward Hayes (1914–1993).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 rural Victoria footage around Omeo. It features excavation of, and images of, the Kiewa Hydro Electric scheme including power station interiors and exteriors and dam footage. Also included are hobby farm images, of children and adults with calves and chickens and pet dogs and cats. There is footage of a man collecting cow manure from paddocks.

We see images of the Royal Melbourne Agricultural Show Grand Parade with goats, horses, Ayrshire and Illawarra cattle, jinkers, floats, horse-drawn carts with advertising. There is also footage of children playing childhood games on the family farm – wheelbarrow races, chasey, ball games and piggy-backs.

Originally made using 9.5mm film.

Selected Highlights List (time codes from Access Overscan):

00:00:01:00 children feeding chickens on farm
00:00:11:00 child sitting on cow and falling off as cow stands
00:00:30:00 family and friends with farm animals
00:00:48:00 man working on farm with shovel collecting cow manure
00:00:59:00 two children with kitten fighting over who gets to hold it
00:01:15:00 children playing chasing, running games around trees in rural setting
00:01:26:00 children with grandmother playing with skipping rope in rural setting (good family images and fashion example)
00:01:35:00 family on ship with crew working in background
00:02:11:00 Maroondah Dam plaque with reservoir details
00:02:46:00 men and children playing piggy back, wheelbarrow races, ball games on rural property (ood footage of childhood games and playing)
00:03:15:00 child and woman on farm with calves (good rural footage and fashion example)
00:05:11:00 Royal Melbourne Agricultural Show Grand Parade including Ayrshire and Illawara cattle and goats
00:05:17:00 Royal Melbourne Agricultural Show Grand Parade with Jinkers, horses and carts, floats and advertising carts
00:08:19:00 Carnation Milk factory interior and exterior
00:08:57:00 Mount Beauty postal address plaque
00:10:01:00 rural footage of Kiewa Hydroelectric scheme, including images of interior and exterior power station, electricity poles and dam
00:10:33:00 road sign with vintage car in background: road sign indicating Upper Kiewa Valley Road; Mt Beauty; Rocky Valley; Howmans Gap