[Wallace Clarke Home Movies: Reel 33]

Wallace Clarke was an amateur filmmaker during the 1960s to the 1990s. Wallace was particularly keen on capturing both the Australian landscape and the people who enjoyed it. As well as Australian urban settings and some world travels, Wallace’s films focus on the many hiking and camping destinations that he visited.

Often carrying the credit, ‘A Walkabout Film’, Wallace’s movies indicate that he was part of a nature study and walking group called ‘The Walkabouters Club of Victoria Inc’. The ‘Walkabouters’ formed in 1968 as a result of a Council of Adult Education (CAE), Outback Study Tour to Central Australia’. Some of the attendees decided to start the Club in order to continue educative walks particularly around Victoria. The Club encouraged their resident artists and photographers to capture their activities.

The collection of Wallace’s films was donated to ACMI by his widow Gwenda Clarke.

This film shows a trip to Wilson’s Promontory, Victoria including the beach at Tidal River and a group of people hiking around the prom.

Originally made on Standard 8mm film.

Selected highlights list:
00:00:38:00 a banksia tree
00:01:02:00 group of people walking onto a beach with large boulders
00:01:37:00 taking photos on the shoreline
00:02:35:00 woman sketching
00:05:49:00 a little lizard
00:06:27:00 group of people hiking
00:07:43:00 man sitting on a rock looking over a view
00:08:05:00 group of people watching the view
00:09:56:00 the river going into the sea
00:12:23:00 the footbridge at Tidal River
00:14:12:00 a rosella on a branch and feeding from someone’s hand