Shirley Abicair – Sunraysia
A wonderful discovery recently from a DVD produced by Mildara Wines about twenty years ago. Shirley Abicair was a well known personality in the 1950’s and as part of an Australian wide TV series in 1959, she visited Sunraysia. You’ll see her chat with riverboat man Max Anderson, blockie Frank Cavanagh, winery worker Tom Lee […]
Football – 1959
Ron Olsen had a keen interest in all types of sport across Sunraysia and amongst his collection a semi final game from 1959 between South Mildura and Irymple was discovered. Complete with hand made titles, Ron’s original film ran for over 12 minutes. In a shortened version of this historic clip you’ll see an award […]
A Flight over Town
Here’s some aerial video footage taken above Mildura. It starts out near Lake Hawthorn and tracks down towards the river. Some things to take note of are the beginning of the development and reclamation of the salt lakes area where the hospital now stands. There’s still no traffic lights on any intersections along Deakin Ave […]
Corbould Family Movie
Some wonderful footage of family activities of the Corbould family can be seen in this clip. The footage is most probably taken in the 1930’s, where we see amongst other things a visit to the Old Wentworth Gaol, a picnic and a few brief shots taken on the corner of 9th & Deakin.
Henley on the Murray – 1954
There’s something special about film images from back in time and this clip is no exception. This footage was taken by Cr Syd Mills at the Henley on the Murray in 1955. Apart from the on water rowing activities, ladies from across the district competed in what in previous years had been, the Queen of […]
Millewa Centenary Movie Night
As part of the Millewa Centenary celebrations, Frames of History put together a selection of historic films to run at a film night on Saturday. Material was sourced from our library plus films gathered over the past months from those who had lived in the area. This was narrated by Peter Kelly. Heavy rain on […]
Timmis Speedway is 60
Timmis Speedway are celebrating 60 years this weekend and so we’ve quickly put together some footage of an event taken way back at the start, in the 1960’s. This is the first of a number of film clips we’ll be posting shot by Ron Olsen. A panel beater by trade, Ron had a great interest […]
The Millewa Centenary – Recollections
The Millewa celebrates its Centenary across the Kings Birthday weekend in June and Frames of History has had the chance to catch up with a number of people to interview on the topic. The first of our Millewa Memories that we have pleasure presenting is with Tony Douglas. Here’s a tale about school from Tony […]
Timmis Speedway
Timmis Speedway are celebrating 60 years this weekend and so we’ve quickly put together some footage of an event taken way back at the start, in the 1960’s. This is the first of a number of film clips we’ll be posting shot by Ron Olsen. A panel beater by trade, Ron had a great interest […]
Floral Carpets
Over the past couple of days some wonderful photos have been shared on Lost Mildura and Sunraysia featuring the Floral Festivals that were conducted in Mildura over many years. This short piece of STV 8 news footage is from around 1970, where we see carpets being constructed in Deakin Ave opposite the Carnegie Library. We’re […]