Historical information

Copy of Godfrey Hirst family videos/photograph on CD. Including 1951 floods at Mill.

All video content filmed at Godfrey Hirst Woollen Mill, Swanston Street, South Geelong.

Godfrey Hirst's children. Family home in Newtown and holiday home in Eastern View.

Physical description

Compact disc (CD) containing colour video footage.

Film has no audio content.

Visual content outlined below:
00:00 – 00:05 – External view of brick building – Godfrey Hirst & Co. Pty. Ltd.
00:05 – 00:10 – Exterior garden setting, three men in suits with fabrics and object
00:10 – 00:28 – Exterior garden setting showing eight women, most likely on a break from working at the Godfrey Hirst factory. The footage shows them all getting up and walking back towards the building at the end.
00:28 – 00:38 – Exterior garden setting, showing seven men in white shirts and ties seated and standing around a table, turning pages on a folder on the table.
00:38 – 00:52 – Interior factory setting, showing four men in coats handling green and red wool.
00:52 – 1:08 – Three men in suits in an exterior garden setting looking at paperwork.
1:08 – 1:23 – Four men in coats in a garden handling coloured wool samples.
1:23 – 1:42 – Four men in suits in a garden setting handling woven fabric. Two of the men are holding pipes.
1:42 – 1:57 – Interior factory setting showing men operating machinery.
1:57 – 2:05 – Exterior factory setting showing a man driving machinery carting wool bales.
2:05 – 3:14 - Flood scenes, showing the exterior of the Godfrey Hirst building with a man rowing a boat down the street, and a horse and cart in flood waters. There are scenes of flooded streets, exterior of flooded buildings and people standing in flood waters.
3:14 – 3:40 - Interior building views of flood waters in factory with people, machinery, equipment and textiles in flood waters.
3:40 – 4:03 - Exterior views showing a tractor, boat, horse and people in flood waters.
4:03 – 7:02 Exterior setting showing crowds of people watching a fashion parade. The fashion parade is of women in various clothing, including suits jackets, skirts, coats and hats.
7.02 - END

Inscriptions & markings

"Hirst family films 1936-1964 Incl. Godfrey Hirst and co P/L Woollen mills"