Jubilee Parade – 1984
Mildura City held Jubilee Celebrations in August 1984 and as part of the festivities, a Grand Parade was conducted down Deakin Avenue. It took about an hour for the parade to pass the camera set up on the corner of Eighth St and Deakin, so we’ve selected some highlights for this short clip looking back […]
Looking Around
Here’s a tour around a few spots in Sunraysia back in the late 50’s or early 60’s, courtesy of Julie Primmer. We start our trip in Red Cliffs visiting a few familiar places. Then across to Mildura’s Lock Island for a walk to the weir. Finally we’re out to Wentworth to walk across the river […]
Celebrating the Queens Visit – 1954
Seventy two years ago, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip were well into their Australian tour and on March 25th they made an unforgettable visit to Sunraysia. This colour film commissioned by the Country Roads Board and the Mildura Shire takes us back to show us just why this royal visit remains such treasured […]
Parade at the Ballerina
More 1970’s fashion from the STV 8 archives. This time film taken at the Ballerina Ballroom as our models rehearse for an upcoming show.
1st Mildura Scouts
Scouting was a big part of life in the Hammerton family. Here are some home movies of various activities undertaken by the 1st Mildura Scout Group in the 1960’s. Like most things in life back then, it was pretty free and easy and obviously filled in a great deal of spare time for Sunraysia’s youth. […]
Fashion at the Kar Rama
Presenting some style from the early 70’s – with a fashion parade held at Mildura’s Kar Rama Motel, where some lovely ladies take to the catwalk around the motel pool. Perhaps to raise money for charity or to simply show off the latest trends, this short news clip of the parade was found in the […]
Mildura Catholic Church Dedication
On August the 3rd 1969, a dedication service was held at Mildura’s Catholic Church to celebrate the opening of an extension to the existing building constructed in the 1920’s. Apart from visiting church officials, others representing local and federal government were in attendance, alongside a large crowd of regular church goers and friends. This short […]
Bridge Work
STV8 archive News footage from 1971 presents a couple of stories set near the Mildura Bridge. In the first story, traffic is held up a while as new planks are installed in the bridge approach. Then a little further down stream, a local boat maker gets into trouble when the low-loader delivering a new house […]
Project Hibal Launch
Footage of a “Project Hibal” balloon launch early in the morning in 1970 from Mildura Airport, shot by STV 8 news cameraman Kent Smith. The balloon launching and retrieval program ran for over ten years, where an experienced team supplied US authorities with unique data collected from the edge of space. Frames of History has […]
Mildura Gliding Club
Here’s a clip from some of the earliest material we’ve found on STV8 news film so far. It’s from the late 60’s and features a Tiger Moth used by Sunraysia Gliding Club to lift the gliders from the field, before releasing them to sail home. Leaves you wondering where this little work horse finished up.