Australia's earliest road traffic accident captured on film (c1905)
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- Опубликовано: 8 дек 2013
- At 2:10, archival footage of a pedestrian incident from March 1905, as an employee exits the Swallow & Ariell's Biscuit Factory in Rouse St, Port Melbourne. The unfortunate victim, seemingly transfixed by the camera's presence, sustained a severe head injury. This is Australia's earliest filmed road traffic accident known to survive.
(NFSA: 43202) 
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I have been looking for this film for 20-odd years! The Melbourne Museum used to run a short film on loop in their historical area that included this incident. The first shot is a close up of the man coming of the doorway seen in the background then going back in again. It then cuts and the second shot is a close-cropped version of the horse slamming into the man as shown.
The rest of the footage is a camera in Swanston Street panning across the intersections with what appears to be two larrikin push members walking with the panning camera grinning into the lens. A no doubt annoyed cameraman stops, changes direction and again, the larrikins re-appear, grinning and spoiling the shoot.
That is downright bizarre. Why did the filmmakers include that last little sequence in this movie? Was it supposed to be funny?
It's a mystery - who knows what they meant.
ruclips.net/video/RG9IR0JgEFM/видео.html
It was funny 🤣🤣🤣
They said why in the video.... "We cannot take you back to 1854 (Presumably when the factory began operating) but..." then showed you the video of the factory from 1905. Except that video also showed some dude getting steamrolled by a horse in the foreground.
@@jackmitchell5194 A severe head injury is hilarious?
WE CANNOT TAKE YOU BACK TO 1854 BUT...(man appears out of thin air and gets trampled by a horse, closely followed by a dog).
I must admit I cannot make head or tail out of this 🙁
This was from an earlier Salvation Army film of the factory staff exiting the door. However the first man out had the accident with the horse. Treated a bit lightly by the company.
quality is trash why didnt they jus use the iphone 13 pro the camera is good on that wtf and they say this generation is stupid lmao
This was shot using the iphone 12 pro b/w edition,everyone in this film died before the iphone 13 pro came out.
@@movieking4939 oh okay I see now appreciate it bro
I heard horse-drawn stagecoaches and coaches could by dangerous especially driven at speed on rural or poor roads but I never considered you could be ridden over by a lone horseman.
I can remember my mother sending myself and older brother to our local milk bar in Pascoe Vale Melbourne back in the very early 1960’s whenI was a young kid to buy biscuits/crackers among items and I vividly remember all the differrent company brands all lined up on shelves against the wall in square tins, Swallows, Brickhoff, Arnott etc depicting the type of biscuit on the front with a label and you used to say the weight you wanted Lin the old imperial measure like pounds or ounces and the shopkeeper would climb up a small ladder and take out the required amount and then weigh them on the scales and ti them into a brown paper bag, the days when you bought them loose! Also remember “Bakerboy” bread being delivered to our front door in the late 1950’s by the baker in a white dust coat with a wicker basket for my mother and remember very well the Horse pulling the Bakers cart parked in front of the house this would have been at the end of that era and am lucky to have memories of it, the milko with Horse and cart lasted well into the late sixties and me and my mate would travel with the milko after finishing our paper round on a Saturday morning after finishing our paper rounds on our pushbikes and remember the beautiful draught Horse pulling the cart, he knew exactly where to go and where to stop! And when the driver wanted his Horse to respond to any of his commands this was easily conveyed to him by a type of whistle or what seemed to me by an unintelligible command! Great days indeed, I could go on about bottle”O” and briquette man driving up our street standing on the running board with one leg and and the left one lightly on the gas pedal calling out “Bottle “O” to the resident where people would bring out their beer bottles for him to take, also the “night soil” truck that was nicknamed something like a 48 door saloon and they always seemed to drive a maple leaf Chevrolet truck with ornate pin striping all over it and the funny man was always dressed in a blue singlet and shorts wearing a thick leather apron type of thing obviously to keep away the slops from the cans! Memories indeed!
Hi James, thank you so much for sharing all of those memories with us. And with such detail as well. All the more special as none of them take place anymore. It's one thing to see it on film but so much better to hear the lived experience and all the little details. Much appreciated.
Please tell what is a night soil truck?
Also did people have beer delivered as well as milk or was the bottle O just to pick up the glass empties?
@@thedave7760 In modern, polite parlance, a night soil truck is a septic waste tanker, removing the
accumulated waste deposited in the (old time) outside dunny, or (modern) septic tank. Over here in GB
there used to be a brewery named Davenport's who did home deliveries, with a slogan that 'Beer at Home means Davenports.'
@@thedave7760Night soil was sewerage, in dunny cans. The bottle-o picked up empties only, if you wanted beer you went to the pub to buy it in bottles.
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It was the cyclist's fault.
@@timothymichael6549 Indeed. They need to ban those reckless penny-farthing contraptions 🧐
@@AshPragasam think they own road 🤣🤣
lmao
Hmmm. I've been watching that end piece in slo-mo. Very curious. The chap seems to appear out of nowhere - perhaps staged? Why was the cameraman filming the building?Might have been made for a company promo, an inside joke lost in the mists of time.
Hmm! Odd indeed 🤔
Yeah, you're right he does seem to appear out of thin air at around 2.12-2.13..
A RUclips search for Port Melbourne 1905 Swallows should show and explain more of the earlier film.
I'm guessing the camera was filming a view of the place before, saw someone was about to get hit by a horse, and then quickly cranked the camera back up and got this scene
This has been taken from National Film & Sound Archives movie Titled "Living Melbourne." It was Originally shot with some of the first Movie Cameras and has been cleaned repaired and now in Latest IT. The shots you see are all that remain of the Original Film. These are Historical Pics.
A RUclips search for Port Melbourne 1905 Swallows should show and explain more of the earlier film.
Can you imagine the taste of those chemical free biscuits 😋
Jack P : I’m 59 and I remember the big tins of Arnott biscuits that we used to get .. and I do also remember Swallow biscuits 👍 ( not the other name , Ariell’s though )
@@annab7596 Did you used to swallow those biscuits?...
back then ingredients would have been highly adulterated
Perhaps in the 1600s , not in the 1800s, they were bad days for honesty when it came to food and drugs.
Quite fascinating piece of film; personally, I'd put it at a little later than 1905 - perhaps about 1910? - judging by the motor lorries. Hard to tell at this distance, but their radiators suggest they may be Albions. Just out of curiosity, did Swallow & Ariel have anything to do with 'SAO biscuits', or was that Arnott's?
First hit & run ? First pedestrian hit / killed Ah referring to the first caught on camera on a roadway ? Well the chap got taken out hard core pretty sure he didn't get up in a hurry or at all . cheers
Swallow & Ariell's Employing 998 hands.
a very unusual ending
I hope Hes ok
He's dead now.
@@Luke-ri5fo no shit sherlock
@@Luke-ri5fo ah touche!
He's okay. His head is still a bit sore.
first horse crash I ever watch
Wish they shot it in HD
yeah i really wish they were able to film in 4K HD back in 1905 too.
Is 1000 hands 500 people?.....cept the 1 with the horse.....of course
Wham Bam Horsey Cam?
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I suspect this is a few years after 1905.
Looks like a stunt for a movie.
A RUclips search for Port Melbourne 1905 Swallows should show and explain more of the earlier film.
Pure Gold! And truly funny!
Travel to the past
Let’s make a one second video and stretch it farrrr and wiiiiide that’s the whole trick silly ( politically corrected “Slow people” ) for people who ask lol