Series 20 - Movie Films held by the National Film and Sound Archive


Date Range1932 - 1971, Many undated.
Quantity
ProvenanceLucy Crosbie Morrison
Description

This series consists of films held by the National Film and Sound Archive. Notes for films held by the National Film and Sound Archive were written by archivists at the Australian Science Archives Project, University of Melbourne with the assistance of Lucy Crosbie Morrison and may differ from the descriptions prepared by staff at the National Film and Sound Archive. National Film and Sound Archive identification numbers are given where they are known.

The films are mainly 16mm in format, and are of locations in Australia and Japan, including: Great Ocean Road; Melbourne Zoo; Grampians; Northern Territory; Grimwade Expedition to Western Australia; trip to Hattah Lakes; Tasmania; Mt. Keira; camping with the Royal Australiasian Ornithologists Union. There is also footage of animals including whales, worms, kangaroos, wallabies and other mammals, insects and reptiles; Compilation films; Very Short Pieces and Family Films; and a commercial film. All films were photographed by Philip Crosbie Morrison unless otherwise indicated.

Please contact the National Film and Sound Archive for further information, or if you wish to access this material.


Inventory Listing

MORR00800 Opening of the Great Ocean Road
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm, black and white, about 120 feet; inscription on leader: "Great Ocean Road - 1932" Original B. and W. Reversal Head. (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65438)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range November 1932
Inventory Identifier 20-1 Series 20
MORR00801 Opening of the Great Ocean Road
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm. Print from a black and white interneg. stretched to 24fps, 144 ft., 3 minutes 50 seconds. Produced by Education Media Australia. (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65439)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range November 1932
Inventory Identifier 20-2 Series 20
MORR00802 A Day at the Zoological Gardens Melbourne
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm. black and white, 16fps, ? ft., with significant shrinkage evident. Not photographed by P.C.M. Contents of the film includes shots of koalas, baby hippopotamus, swans, kangaroos, primates, miniature railway, devil lizard, deer, llama, cats, trees, ferns, tigers, lions, dogs, birds, zebra, elephant rides, donkey cart. (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65433)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1932 - 1936, Production date 1936 Stock date 1932
Inventory Identifier 20-3 Series 20
MORR00803 A Thousand Miles to Darwin of the Great North Road
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., colour, 24 fps, (? 800 ft.) with significant shrinkage evident. Contents of the film include shots of Alice Springs, Emily Gap, Dr.Tom Coates (Major), bush, rocks, caterpillars, ant nests, travel using Army vehicles, Borrow Creek, Banka Banka, wasp nests, flies, Bindum, floods, Katherine River, native vegetation, cemetery with the gravestone marked 'ANEAS GUNN 1862-1908', Sheoaks, bower bird nest, farming - growing vegetables for the Army, rainbow lorikeet, aerial view, Kakadu, an army plane (DC3), Melville Bay Army Depot, soldiers digging, crabs, aborigines (family, children and a young mother), soldiers, python, lizards, magnetic anthills. This film was shot while P.C.M. was a member of the Army Education Unit. Labelled REEL 12. (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65455)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range March 1944
Inventory Identifier 20-4 Series 20
MORR00804 Melbourne Skyline, Dandenong Ranges, Farming Country, Belgrave, Puffing Billy and Other Films, REEL 6
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

Item labelled "REEL 6". 16mm, colour, with significant shrinkage evident and some damage to the film. Contents of the film include shots of Melbourne skyline, Dandenong Ranges, farming country, Belgrave, Puffing Billy carrying both passengers and freight, views taken from Puffing Billy (Autumn 1944), PCM's sons Jim and Tom lowering frankfurts into a billy, toadstools, Emerald Lake, people bathing, Lucy Crosbie Morrison (L.C.M.) on a seat by a bridge, Puffing Billy engine 3A. (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65448).

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range c. 1944, Stock date 1942
Inventory Identifier 20-5 Series 20
MORR00805 Grampians, REEL 9
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., colour, with significant evidence of shrinkage. Contents of the film include shots of cars and buses, a group walking out across a field, shrubs in flower, wattle, mountain views, groups of people on top of The Pinnacle, waterfall with Jim Morrison, Stevenson Falls with a girl and a rainbow, white eared honey eater, Morrison family car Vauxhall BS 862, wildflowers including Heath and Caladenia and Greenhood orchids, car driving over bridge, rocks outside Stawell with graffiti, native vegetation, an emu nest, an emu and baby emus. L.C.M. thought that some of this film was shot in the school holidays September 1945 when the family had a holiday in the Grampians. They met up with Bill Middleton and other naturalists while there. (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65429)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range September 1945, Stock date 1945
Inventory Identifier 20-6 Series 20
MORR00806 Whales
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., colour, ? ft., with significant evidence of shrinkage. Note on the inside of the cannister: See Wild Life June 1946 p.195, Blackfish hale (Globiocephala malaena), 141 stranded on Mann's Beach - on the ninety-Mile Beach east of Wilson's Promontory, First seen by Commonwealth Fisheries Research reconnaissance plane on March 31, School includes males and females of all ages, from a 4ft. 6" baby apparently not long born to adults just short of 20ft. long. The largest measured was 19ft. 8"! Contents of the film includes shots on the water in boats, coastal dunes, Ninety Mile Beach, stranded whales (long shots and close ups), performing an autopsy, person taking still photographs (perhaps for Wild Life), a group of people including Charles Braisner on the right. (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65430)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1946
Inventory Identifier 20-7 Series 20
MORR00807 Japan 1946 REEL 22
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., colour, ? ft., evidence of some shrinkage (variable). Contents of the film includes shots of: Japanese Title 'Seto Wai Ka', 'The Sea Within the Narrow Gates'. Content of the film includes:
1. Aerial views of the trip north via Adelaide, Alice Springs, Darwin, Morotai Island (in the Moluccas) - shots of tropical coastline, Army base on Palm Island, Morotai, children outside shop. Coral reefs, Laoag (in the northern Philippines) - selling necklaces, the Army base, the sea, the coastline, ships, fish traps.
2. Arriving in Japan. Japanese coastline and mountains, sailing boats, junks, single oared boats, Iwakuni - house girls at the B.C.O.F. headquarters, cherry blossoms, girls in traditional clothes (Kimonos), girls washing hands, working on a building site - all manual labour, well (water) in a village, terraced gardens, cemetery, children under the cherry blossom, footware - wooden thongs
3. Title: Mijajima. An Island of Temples. Boats as shot from a ferry, landing on the island, crowd shots with few in European dress, Japanese girls dancing with paper parasols and fans, group of singers in traditional dress
4. Hiroshima - City of Devastation (18 months after the bombing), coastal views, tunnel, cars, trucks, the bombed area, high view of destroyed city blocks, mass graveyards with hundreds of monuments, new wooden buildings, ploughing fields, terraced farming, night soil from the city being taken to the fields in a cart, all wooden bridge at Kintae, women with a load of fire wood, rural landscape, Temple, Francis Xavier headstone, workers in the field, tea plantations by the sea. (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65454)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range February 1947?
Inventory Identifier 20-8 Series 20
MORR00808 Grimwade Expedition to Western Australia
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm. colour, ? ft. slight shrinkate with very few scratches. Labelled on leader: Grimwade Expedition Reel # 1 Head Out! Contents of the film include shots of: the ship MOONTA possibly at Port Lincoln, group photograph includes J.H. Willis and Russell Grimwade, the bus they used for transport, changing a tyre, ruined buildings, coastline, dirt road - the Eyre Highway, the Nullabor Plain, shot of Dermot Casey and Russell Grimwade, Cliffs of the Nullabor on the Great Australian Bight, an outback couple with Russell Grimwade on the right, aborigines and other local people, House, Eucla - old Telegraph Station, freelance journalist Alan Bell with a pipe, rabbit hunters and rabbits (Western Rabbit Co.), campsite - tents, campfire (R.T.M. Pescott and Dermot Casey), meal table including Alan Bell, R.T.M. Pescott, Jim Swanson, ? Crozier, Russell Grimwade (top of the table), the cook, J.H. Willis. End of Reel 1. (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65444)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range October 1947
Inventory Identifier 20-9 Series 20
MORR00809 Grimwade Expedition to Western Australia
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., colour, ? feet, with variable shrinkage. Labelled on leader: Grimwade Expedition W.A. REEL 2 (Head Out)! Contents of the film includes shots of: a station homestead (Balladonia?), wildflowers, acacias, eucalypts, the Western Australian south coast (Esperance - Albany), Stirling Ranges, many wildflowers including pea flowers, grevillias, orchids, darwinias, grass trees in flower, forests (Kauri). (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65444)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range October 1947
Inventory Identifier 20-10 Series 20
MORR00810 Camping Out with the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, Hattah Lakes, Victoria, REEL 13
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., colour, ? feet, with little shrinkage and good colour. Sequence of shots as given by P.C.M. 1. Lake Hattah 2. Members of the Mildura Field Naturalists inspecting site 3. One of the red gums by the lake 4. Sandhill near camp 5. Big old trees and views around camp 6. Camp site - tents, mess tent centre, men's quarters foreground, Male tents background 7. Cook entering cook house 8. Brigadier Officer, Dell Mosey, Edgar Whitbourne, Gordon Binns 9. Going in for a meal - late comers, last Dr. Falla. Mr. Stewart, Mrs. Lewis, A.G. Campbell, Nancy and Mrs. Littlejohns 10. Brig. And Dr. Falla - from Wellington, New Zealand 11. Washing up 12. Pardalote on bough 13. Pardalote nesting 14. Quail thrush at nest 15. Mildura visitors, Mr. Bryant and Dr. Fall greeting Mayor and Mayoress, and Rev. Clarrie Lang 16. Chestnut tailed thornbill at nest 17. Brown treecreeper at nest 18. High wind, Miss Wigan, Miss Lawrence. Jack Robertson fixing Margaret Chattaway's tent 19. Tent completely down - Motes, from Sydney 20. Black backed Wren, long shots to close ups 21. General view of mallee 22. Black backed Wren's nest 23. Bellfruit tree, (codonocarpus) and Golden Pennetts 24. Nightjar on nest - egg. Spotted Nightjar 25. Bathing party at edge of lake 26. Bird watchers setting out 27. Wind in grass 28. Edge of lake, excursion with cars to Boondrook Crossing 29. Trees and flowers - eromophila 30. Red-kneed dotterel, Display distraction, sitting on eggs 31. Centipede 32. Margaret Chattaway examining algae in lake 33. Blue-tongue lizard 34. Photographers in action, emu wren's nest 35. Emu wren taking droppings 36. Flowers, including poached egg daisy 37. Beetles on flower 38. Mallee, Dr. Falla, Golden pennents 39. Amytornis, Striated Grass-wren 40. Scrub Robin, always back to camera 41. Breaking camp - emptying palliases, Roy Wheeler, Miss O'Grady, Misses Rust, Lawrence, Murrells, Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Littlejohns Final packing, Nance Fletcher, Ina (looking coy), Jack Robertson, Aileen Adams, Jim Palmer, Don Braithwaite 42. Aileen making up. Mrs. Waterhouse and Mrs. Mote going bathing 43. View of mess tent with rainbow. Note: P.C.M. did the close-up shots by placing the camera and tripod in position and then removing himself to a safe distance activating the camera with a length of string. (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65440)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range October 1951
Inventory Identifier 20-11 Series 20
MORR00811 Camping out with the RAOU, Hattah Lakes
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., black and white, ? ft. Work print, Victorian National Parks Authority. (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65440)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range October 1951
Inventory Identifier 20-12 Series 20
MORR00812 Tasmanian Timber, REEL 2
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., colour, ? feet, with slight shrinkage at the beginning. Contents of the film includes shots of timber jinkers, a black cockatoo, timber workers, cranes with logs, loading logs onto junkers, a tree climber (man) putting on spurs and climbing a huge tree, local countryside, location not known. The Morrison family were on holiday in Tasmania. (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65428)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1955, Stock Date 1955 (Summer?)
Inventory Identifier 20-13 Series 20
MORR00813 Royal Australasians Ornithological Union trip to Mt. Keira, REEL 16
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., colour, ? ft., immaculate condition. Label on leader: RAOU Mt. Keira - head out and back to Benambra, also Lake Hattah lst REEL - Rewind. Contents of the film includes shots of members of the expedition, a group shot of 50-70 people, bower bird, ship coastline near Wollongong, mutton birds by the coast, fairy penguins, Fitzroy - Morton Protective Reserve, N.S.W., Holden motor car on dirt road, Murray River, Benambra, pigs. (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65441)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1955, Stock Date 1955
Inventory Identifier 20-14 Series 20
MORR00814 Worms, Avocets, REEL 14
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., colour, ? ft., very good condition though "shudders" indicate problems with the camera. Contents of the film includes shots of the Altona Salt Works, worms and avocets nesting. (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65431)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1955, Stock date 1955
Inventory Identifier 20-15 Series 20
MORR00815 Portland, Royal Australasian Ornithological Union Expedition
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., colour, very short ? ft., good condition. Contents of the film includes shots of Crested Turns - by the beach, whistlers feeding their young. L.C.M. met Norman Wettenhall and his wife Joan on this trip. (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65432)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range October 1957
Inventory Identifier 20-16 Series 20
MORR00816 Tip Toe through the Checklist, REEL 20
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., colour, ? ft., variable shrinkage, probably compiled for the RAOU mostly from footage taken in the 1940s. Contents of the film includes shots of emus, king penguins at the Zoo, fairy penguins, a mallee fowl nest with the eggs being exposed and then repacked (Jock Jones is on the right), plains wanderer, coot, a grebe at a nest with eggs, storm petrel, crested turn nest with young chick hatching, Fisherman's Bend with children photographing and being dive bombed by fairy turns (marsh turns), crested turns nesting at Fisherman's Bend, black shouldered kite, on Mud Island Port Philip Bay a fairy turn nesting (with Ina Watson, Eric Thake and Charles Bryant), at Mornington in the Vauxhall - 1948, L.C.M. feeding birds, at the Altona Salt Works with seagulls' nest in the salt piles (with Charles Bryant), in the Western District, Victoria a red kneed dotterall, a red capped dotterall, a stilt, a stone plover, at Kerang an Ibis nest with eggs and chicks and an egret with an egg, at the Barmah Forest with night herons, black swans, a black duck, a black shouldered kite, young tawny frogmouth, swift, with wagtail nest, a flame robin, rufus whistlers with young in the nest, white fronted chat in nest, scrub wren (at P.C.M.'s home in Brighton), reed warbler, blue wren, wood swallow, spotted pardolote at its nest, an unidentified bird, helmeted honey eater at Cardinia Creek, white plumed honeyeating Magpie. (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65451)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1950s, Early 1950s
Inventory Identifier 20-17 Series 20
MORR00817 For All the People... for All Time, REEL 18 National Parks No. 1
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., colour, 1300 ft., variable shrinkage. Compiled with P.C.M. went into the Victorian National Parks Authority in 1957 from footage shot in 1949 and the early 1950s. Contents of the film includes shots of the Glenelg River 1952 with people, boats, a picnic at Portland (with Noel Learmonth in the centre wearing a hat and with a large bottle of wine and L.C.M. on the left); Tower Hill, Victorian Alps with wild flowers; Tara Valley in Gippsland (with L.C.M., Tom and Jim an old timer and the Vauxhall c.1949), Bulge Park Suspension Bridge, Ninety Mile Beach, Conner Inlet, emus, cormorants; Darby River Wilson's Promontory, beach person not identified), sand cliffs (with Ken? and his wife, George Finlay - Trustee of the Museum, L.C.M., Norman Harris - Director of the State Railways and on the Board of Management for Wilson's Promontory, Charles Brazenor - Director of the National Museum of Victoria - looking at grass trees in flower; Tidal River, view from Mt. Oberon with L.C.M.); road up to Tidal River with buildings including the little museum and a ring of cottages, a view of the river, birds, orchids and other wild flowers; group setting out on a walk (includes Norman Harris, Ken? and his wife, L.C.M. recalls that Harris went on to Oberon Bay thinking he knew a short cut back. The Ranger with a nurse and horse were sent out to find him); Oberon Bay - winding river; en route to Sealer's Cove (peole include Essie Green and Charles Green - Melbourne Walking Club with L.C.M. at the rear); Windy Ridge, Sealers Cove; Lind National Park - Mallacoota foreshore Reserve (with the Morrison Holden and new tent at Captain Point, L.C.M. and Jim, a bird on a tent peg, a sunset) The End. (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65452)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1949 - c. 1957, 1949, early 1950s; compiled c.1957
Inventory Identifier 20-18 Series 20
MORR00818 REEL 19 National Parks 2: Binna Burra, O'Reilly's, Port Arthur
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., colour, ? ft., variable shrinkage and variable condition. Contents of the film includes shots of the MacPherson Ranges, Binna Burra, a group leaving the hut, L.C.M. on the steps, waterfall, (the Morrisons walked from Binna Burra to O'Reilly's - n.d., c.1950), Ranger - close up, L.C.M. walking, view down a valley; Port Arthur, Tasmania coastline (Morrisons were there for the Jubilee Camp of the Tasmanian Field Naturalists, Safety Cove, Tasmania 1954), rocks, surf, island, lighthouse, Port Arthur campsite (Sargison with a huge teapot), wallaby; Lake St. Clair (R.A.O.U. expedition? Dulcie Bryant with tomatoes), a hut (Charles Bryant walking past), Mt. Rufus? (on top Del Mosey with two men unknown - others include Carol Jackson and oward Jarman); Blue Lake, Mt. Gambier, Henty's Hut historic marker (with Noel Learmonth). (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65453)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1950s, 1950s; compiled c.1957
Inventory Identifier 20-19 Series 20
MORR00819 Sweet Advertisement, REEL 15
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., colour, ? ft. (short) some shrinkage, well used. Contents of the film includes shots of children and flowers, Jim Morrison with a daisy chain, two boys Tom and Jim Morrison, pink heath, Almond blossom near Adelaide, Western Australian smoke bush, Geraldton (with R.A.O.U.), many wildflowers, sunset (final shot). (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65463)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1940s - 1950s, Some shots late 1940s; compilation date c.1950s
Inventory Identifier 20-20 Series 20
MORR00820 REEL 5 Footage of a Cricket, the Bush, Cockatoos and Other Subjects
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16mm., colour, ? Ft. (short), variable shrinkage. Contents of the film includes shots of an insect (a cricket), the bush with gang gang cockatoos, man and dog crossing a river, grubs, a weir, a couple walking, "The End" Lake Hattah (See 5-11), the Jolimont railway yards, Melbourne. (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65466)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1940s - 1950s, compiled c.1950s
Inventory Identifier 20-21 Series 20
MORR00821 REEL 17 Insects
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., colour, ? ft. some shrinkage, film well used. Contents of the film as given by P.C.M.: Giant Gippsland earthworm, stick insect, Paragnyllacus, Mautispa, Jewel Beetle, giant elephant beetle, ladybird, green vegetable bugs, aphis, cowboy assassin, ? caterpillar, gum emperor caterpillar, wanderer butterfly. (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65447)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1950s, n.d., compiled c.1950s
Inventory Identifier 20-22 Series 20
MORR00822 REEL 21 Mammals
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., colour, ? ft., variable shrinkage but generally excellent condition. Contents of the film includes shots of a model globe of the earth, echidnas, platypus in the tank at the Healesville Sanctuary, a hopping marsupial mouse with young, bush rats?, bandicoots. (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65450)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1950s, n.d., compiled c.1950s
Inventory Identifier 20-23 Series 20
MORR00823 In Central Australia with Crosbie Morrison
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., colour, ? ft., 19 minutes. Original kodachrome film edited checkerboard style for working interneg. Image A and B Rolls 707 "Synchronize on Picture Start - Education Media Australia". (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65449)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1971
Inventory Identifier 20-24 Series 20
MORR00824 In Central Australia with Crosbie Morrison
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., "E/Col, I/Neg" colour with sound, ? Ft. Copy used for making further prints. Lucy Crosbie Morrison retains the copyright. The following details and the identification of people were recalled by L.C.M. and David Corke at a viewing of the film on 6 May 1987. The "foot" counter was able to be set to aid with identification. 0 ft. - Picture Start 141 ft. - Dulcie Bryant in green, Charles Bryant and L.C.M. on the left. Charles Bryant with Beja Dervish Balloch at Marree 149 ft. - L.C.M. and Dulcie Bryant. Tom Kruse setting out from Marree to Birdsville with the mail. 191 ft. - L.C.M. walking. Camp staff. Charles Bryant is in the middle of a group shot 202 ft. - Noel Learmonth walking across a creek 218 ft. - Del Mosey and Noel Learmonth 225 ft. - Ina Watson with Nance Fletcher on the right 255 ft. - Frank Pinchen on the left 286 ft. - Eleanor Hough - the wife of Professor Hough from Colorado who was in Australia on a Fulbright fellowship 397 ft. - Stan Lawrence going into the tent 400 ft. - Doug Tomkin shaving 401 ft. - Howard Jarman from the Adelaide Zoo 404 ft. - Claude Austin on the left 409 ft. - Ina Watson 425 ft. - L.C.M. and Doug Tomkin 480 ft. - Claude Austin in front with Doug Tomkin 566 ft. - Howard Jarman second from the right 568 ft. - Driver or station owner 602 ft. - Howard Jarman and Nance Fletcher 603 ft. - Ina Watson and an unknown 604 ft. - L.C.M. 605 ft. - Noel Learmonth in a white hat and white shirt 606 ft. - Percy Malseed and Ozzie? 716 ft. - Group shot 719 ft. - Howard Jarman in a digger's outfit 721 ft. - Noel Learmonth and Percy Malseed 753 ft. - Stan and Carol Lawrence - walking away, Ina Watson 756 ft. - L.C.M. 837 ft. - Del Mosey. The original footage was shot during a RAOU (?) expedition to Central Australia in 1952. 1st version 'Along the Track' produced by Lucy Morrison - edited by David Corke 1966. 2nd version 'In Central Australia with Crosbie Morrison' produced by Educational Media Australia, edited by David Corke, 1971. [24 copies made, 13 placed by L.C.M.] (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65449)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1971, ???
Inventory Identifier 20-25 Series 20
MORR00825 James Morrison as a Baby
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., black and white (Agfa), very short piece.

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1933
Inventory Identifier 20-26 Series 20
MORR00826 Puffing Billy and Family Shots
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., black and white (Agfa), ? ft. Contents of the film includes shots of Puffing Billy, possibly L.C.M. and Tom Morrison, the family on holiday at Sorrento, Jim aged 3 and Tom aged 5, Jim in the pram with Tom. (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65435)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1937
Inventory Identifier 20-27 Series 20
MORR00827 Jim's Birthday Party
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16mm., colour, ? ft. Contents of the film includes shots of Jim's birthday party at Healesville Sanctuary, pelicans, black swans, ducks, flowers, Tom and Jim at the front, L.C.M. in the middle of the table.

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1939 - 1940, Stock date 1939, shot 1940
Inventory Identifier 20-28 Series 20
MORR00828 Frog Spawn
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., black and white (Kodak), ? ft. Contents of the film includes shots of P.C.M. and Jim (aged 10) looking at frog spawn (eggs and tadpoles) at Panton Hill, Victoria.

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1942
Inventory Identifier 20-29 Series 20
MORR00829 Wilson's Promontory and Other 'Odd ends'
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

Unconnected (unspliced) pieces - 'Odd ends'. 16mm., colour, ? ft. Includes pieces from Wilson Promontory.

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1950s, n.d. c. 1950s
Inventory Identifier 20-30 Series 20
MORR00830 Family - 2
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., black and white (Agfa), ? ft. Excellent condition with little shrinkage. Contents of the film includes shots of Tom Morrison aged 18 months at 9 Maroona Road, Brighton Victoria, L.C.M. and Tom, P.C.M. and Tom, the beach at Sorrento, in the garden P.C.M.'s father James Crosbie Morrison and his mother Grace. In the garden of James C. Morrison, Tom having a bath, Tom with hat and toys, on the beach at Sorrento, L.C.M. and Tom, launching a small boat, eating seaweed, going up the slide, on the see-saw, the back-beach at Sorrento, climbing on a canon, chickens and ducks, Tom with ducklings feeding, L.C.M.'s brother Walter Washington. Half Moon Bay beach with Tom, L.C.M.'s father Walter Washington, her mother Ida May, her brother Walter and her sister Ida - P.C.M. and L.C.M. enter frm the left - probably Christmas 1932 at the Washington's home in Black Rock, waving flags; more of L.C.M.'s family including Emily Hollick (on the far left), Dorithy Izard (coming down the step) and Ruth Hollick (the photographer; dressed in black), On the beach at Rickett's Point with Keith Attiwell (Editor of the Argus) his wife and daughters with Tom, cars on the beach. Tom with his cousin Harry Morrison. (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65470)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1932
Inventory Identifier 20-31 Series 20
MORR00831 Family - 3
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., black and white (Agfa), ? ft., in good condition. Contents of the film includes shots of Ida Washington and Tom at the Zoo (L.C.M. recalls that this was while she was in hospital having James), polar bear, Ida and Tom and a black bear, at home in a sandpit with the neighbours' children, L.C.M. reading to Tom, Jim's first appearance; Wirth's Circus and the lion's cage, lion cubs suckling, Tom and the lion cubs, Jim being fed, Tom in bed, John Winch in a toy car, Jim and Tom, Jim walking (winter 1934, Tom in bed, Jim in a seal rocker, Tom in the rocker, Tom and Jim making mud pies; on the beach at Seaford making sandcastles, wearing striped beach coats and bathing costumes comprising a singlet top and short pants. (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65471)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1933 - 1934
Inventory Identifier 20-32 Series 20
MORR00832 Family and the Victorian Centenary
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., black and white (Agfa) ? ft., good condition but dull and dark. Contents of the film includes shots of a Children's Display at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (M.C.G.), the royal visit of the Duke of Gloucester, Captain Cook's Cottage, a fly past of biplanes, Port Philip Bay, sea planes and land planes, a three funnel ship, planes on the water, L.C.M., Tom and Jim at Station Pier, a fly past in the city of Melbourne (the Post Office or the Town Hall); a street parade at the corner of Elizabeth and Bourke Streets, looking along Bourke Street, an Austin V-3, a police escort, London Stores, an open carriage, troups; the children's display at the M.C.G. including dancing, marching, costume dancing, maypoles, close-up of men in a marching band wearing busbies, street processions, the fountain at Spring Street, the Shot Tower in Swanston Street, the Law Courts, Melbourne General Tanning Co., Fosters Lager advertisments, T. & G. Building National Trustees - a panorama of the city, the Shot Tower, man and a dog, the State Library Dome; A street parade shot from the corner of Spring Street and Bourke Street including floats labelled, L.V.A., (Marching Bands), Langridge and Fawkiner, Electricity - with marching electrical goods, first land sale, Department of Mines, an aeroplane - VH - ? VC, the Fire brigade, United Ancient Order of Druids, Victorian Chamber of Manufacturers 1935, Australian Glass Manufactures, Richmond Lager, ALBA Motor Spirit, Boy Scouts. (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65427)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1935
Inventory Identifier 20-33 Series 20
MORR00833 Family Holiday - 4
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., black and white, ? ft., in good condition. Contents of the film includes shots of Brinsley Sheridan (a fellow staff member on the Argus and P.C.M.'s best man at his wedding), a Hume and Hovell historic monument, the Hume Weir, an old car, campsite with tent, snow, Victorian Alps, Mt. Feathertop looking along the Razorback from Mt. Hotham, Hotham Heights, Mallacoota, seagulls, fishing, sea, Captains Point, forest, a signpost at Woods Point (Mansfield 57 miles, Jameson 36 miles, Aberfeldy 17 miles, Moe 74 miles, Gaffney's Creek 12 miles, Walhalla 44 miles), many old buildings, the Morrison car a Vauxhall 144 F19, Walhalla the old strong room, house over the stream; Brighton - Tom's first day at school, L.C.M., Jim and Tom walking down the street. (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65473)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1937
Inventory Identifier 20-34 Series 20
MORR00834 Family - 5
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., colour, ? ft., significant shrinkage. Contents of the film includes shots of sand dunes, Ninety Mile Beach, Jim and Tom playing on the sand dunes, Jim with a duckling.

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1945 - 1946, Film stock date 1945; Photographed 1946
Inventory Identifier 20-35 Series 20
MORR00835 Family - 6
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., black and white, ? ft., good condition. Contents of the film includes shots of a Wesley College Melbourne rowing eight training on the Yarra River. Jim Morrison is in the bow position, John Hall is fifth from the bow and Ron Quirk is sixth from the bow. Jim was in the Wesley first eight for two years and in both years rowed in the final of the Head of the River. (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 65474)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1951
Inventory Identifier 20-36 Series 20
MORR00836 Forest Fantasia
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

16mm., black and white, optical sound track, ? ft. (National Film and Sound Archive Identification No. 11908-06)

Creator Lucy Crosbie Morrison
Date range 1880? - 1994?, No date. The dates provided are those of the Philip Crosbie Morrison Records.
Inventory Identifier 20-37 Series 20
MORR00987 Tasmania - 2
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

Item labelled "Tas - 2".

Creator Janet Morrison
Date range 1880? - 1994?, No date. The dates provided are those of the Philip Crosbie Morrison Records.
Formats Movie Film
Inventory Identifier 20-38 Series 20
MORR00988 Reel 8 - A Bit Of Everything
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

This film cannister contains a handwritten note: "Check & Chuck Out"

Creator Janet Morrison
Date range 1880? - 1994?, No date. The dates provided are those of the Philip Crosbie Morrison Records.
Formats Movie Film
Inventory Identifier 20-39 Series 20
MORR00989 Reel 10 - Murray Valley 1950 - Murray at Gondwa
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

The handwriting on this item is difficult to decipher. Additional title of this cannister is illegible.

Creator Janet Morrison
Date range 1950?, No date.
Formats Movie Film
Inventory Identifier 20-40 Series 20
MORR00991 Western Australia - Murchison River
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

Item labelled as "WA - Murchison R - See Details Inside". Cannister includes note with additional information about film content.

Creator Janet Morrison
Date range 1880? - 1994?, No date. The dates provided are those of the Philip Crosbie Morrison Records.
Formats Movie Film
Inventory Identifier 20-42 Series 20
MORR00992 Japan Pieces - Mostly Good
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive
Creator Janet Morrison
Date range 1945? - 1950?, No date.
Formats Movie Film
Inventory Identifier 20-43 Series 20
MORR00993 Toolach Wallaby - Reel 1
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive
Creator Janet Morrison
Date range 1880? - 1994?, No date. The dates provided are those of the Philip Crosbie Morrison Records.
Formats Movie Film
Inventory Identifier 20-44 Series 20
MORR00994 Reel 7 Japan - Weribee - Lake Boice
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

Final word of title of this cannister is illegible.

Creator Janet Morrison
Date range 1880? - 1994?, No date. The dates provided are those of the Philip Crosbie Morrison Records.
Formats Movie Film
Inventory Identifier 20-45 Series 20
MORR00995 Reel 40 Kangaroos - Rock Wallaby (slow motion)
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

Title for this film is based on a label that was found loose in the box next to this cannister.

Creator Janet Morrison
Date range 1880? - 1994?, No date. The dates provided are those of the Philip Crosbie Morrison Records.
Formats Movie Film
Inventory Identifier 20-46 Series 20
MORR00996 Kangaroo - Television - School Programme - Pieces of film Film Kangaroo Toilet Kangaroo Running in Slow Motion
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

The handwriting on this item is difficult to decipher.

Creator Janet Morrison
Date range 1880? - 1994?, No date. The dates provided are those of the Philip Crosbie Morrison Records.
Formats Movie Film
Inventory Identifier 20-47 Series 20
MORR00997 Western Australia - Grimwade - Reel 3
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

This item is labelled "WA - Grim - 3". Alternative title shown on the cannister in this inventory item reads "Big Timber Logging, etc - 18[fps?]".

Creator Janet Morrison
Date range 1880? - 1994?, No date. The dates provided are those of the Philip Crosbie Morrison Records.
Formats Movie Film
Inventory Identifier 20-48 Series 20
MORR00998 Three Empty Spools

This inventory item was deaccessioned from the Morrison Collection on 25 September 2008. It has been destroyed.

Creator Janet Morrison
Date range 1880? - 1994?, No date. The dates provided are those of the Philip Crosbie Morrison Records.
Formats Ephemera
Inventory Identifier 20-49 Series 20
MORR00999 Toolach Wallaby - Reel 2
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive
Creator Janet Morrison
Date range 1880? - 1994?, No date. The dates provided are those of the Philip Crosbie Morrison Records.
Formats Movie Film
Inventory Identifier 20-50 Series 20
MORR01000 Spiders - Snake - Redbellied Black? - Gecko - Cleaning Eye Ball with Tongue - Gymnodactylis Melinsia? - Gould's Moniter - Varances Gouldii? - Shingle Back - Stumpy Lizard?
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive
Creator Janet Morrison
Date range 1880? - 1994?, No date. The dates provided are those of the Philip Crosbie Morrison Records.
Formats Movie Film
Inventory Identifier 20-51 Series 20
MORR01001 Empty Can

This inventory item was deaccessioned from the Morrison Collection on 25 September 2008. It has been destroyed.

Creator Janet Morrison
Date range 1880? - 1994?, No date. The dates provided are those of the Philip Crosbie Morrison Records.
Formats Ephemera
Inventory Identifier 20-52 Series 20
MORR01002 Mallacoota? Sea Birds - ?
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive
Creator Janet Morrison
Date range 1880? - 1994?, No date. The dates provided are those of the Philip Crosbie Morrison Records.
Formats Movie Film
Inventory Identifier 20-53 Series 20
MORR01003 L St Clair - Rail Queenstown to Strahan - Strahan Railway Station - Too Fast on Sound Speed - Tail out
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

Item labelled "L St Clair - Rail Queenstown to Strahan - Strahan R Station - Too Fast on Sound Speed - Tail out"

Creator Janet Morrison
Date range 1880? - 1994?, No date. The dates provided are those of the Philip Crosbie Morrison Records.
Formats Movie Film
Inventory Identifier 20-54 Series 20
MORR01004 Aileen Sitting On Pier - Horse Tram On Long Pier - Sea Coast - Waves Breaking on Rocks - Group B. O. in Paddock - Far Trees
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

The handwriting on this item is difficult to decipher.

Creator Janet Morrison
Date range 1880? - 1994?, No date. The dates provided are those of the Philip Crosbie Morrison Records.
Formats Movie Film
Inventory Identifier 20-55 Series 20
MORR01005 Reel 41 - White Fronted Chats - Eastern Rosella - White Faced Heron
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

Item labelled "Reel 41 - Wh. Fronted Chats - Eastern Rosella - Wh. Faced".

Creator Janet Morrison
Date range 1880? - 1994?, No date. The dates provided are those of the Philip Crosbie Morrison Records.
Formats Movie Film
Inventory Identifier 20-56 Series 20
MORR01006 Platypus - Healesville - Koalas in Trees Climbing etc Excellent Climbing Action But Colour Not Good - Black and White?
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

Note in cannister also mentions Mt Alexander, Castlemaine, kangaroos eating bread, a toilet and feathertail.

Creator Janet Morrison
Date range 1880? - 1994?, No date. The dates provided are those of the Philip Crosbie Morrison Records.
Formats Movie Film
Inventory Identifier 20-57 Series 20
MORR01007 Reel 4 - Sea Shots ?Cape Shanck - Stills - Werribee - Duck Nest - Werribee
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

Cannister includes additional note which mentions Cape Shanck and other details.

Creator Janet Morrison
Date range 1880? - 1994?, No date. The dates provided are those of the Philip Crosbie Morrison Records.
Formats Movie Film
Inventory Identifier 20-58 Series 20
MORR01008 Reel 11 - Murray Valley 1950 - ?Garden Near Adelaide - ?Victor Harbour
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

Additional note inside cannister reads "Murray R [River] Film - 2 Lengths - Orange Grove - Murrayville - Murray at Goolwa - Victor Harbour and Visit to Garden outside Adelaide".

Creator Janet Morrison
Date range 1950?, No date.
Formats Movie Film
Inventory Identifier 20-59 Series 20
MORR01010 Blank Film Reels
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

Five rolls of 16mm film which are believed to be blank, four of which are housed in Cine-Kodak Kodachrome boxes.

This item was sent to the National Film and Sound Archive on 25 September 2008 to determine whether the rolls are blank or have been exposed. Michael Jones and Ann McCarthy (25/09/2008).

Creator Janet Morrison
Date range 1880? - 1994?, No date. The dates provided are those of the Philip Crosbie Morrison Records.
Formats Movie Film
Inventory Identifier 20-61 Series 20
MORR01011 Original Introduction: 'Along the Track - In Central Australia', Crosbie Morrison
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

Item labelled "Original Intro: "Along the Track - In Central Australia" C. M.". Housed in Tuscan 200 box.

Creator Janet Morrison
Date range 1880? - 1994?, No date. The dates provided are those of the Philip Crosbie Morrison Records.
Formats Movie Film
Inventory Identifier 20-62 Series 20
MORR01014 Bushland Symphony
Held by the National Film and Sound Archive

Large [200mm?] spool of 16mm film.

Creator Janet Morrison
Date range 1880? - 1994?, No date. The dates provided are those of the Philip Crosbie Morrison Records.
Formats Movie Film
Inventory Identifier 20-64 Series 20

Published by the The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on AustehcWeb, August 2008
With support from R.E. Ross Trust, Lucy Crosbie Morrison and The University of Melbourne
Listed by Stuart Brash, Anne-Marie Condé, Libby Robin, Ann McCarthy, Michael Jones, Gavan McCarthy and Tim Sherratt.
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Updated 5 April 2011
http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/morr/MORS0020.htm

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