North Shore Steam Ferry (1899)

Genre

documentary film

Country

Australia

How it feels

This very short 1899 film shows a steam ferry arriving at a wharf in Sydney. It captures the ferry docking and workers preparing for passengers to get off.

historicalquietobservationalshortstagedslowfactual

What happens

North Shore Steam Ferry was a trial film using Lumière Cinematographe equipment purchased for the Queensland Department of Agriculture. Frederick Wills filmed the steam ferry PS Cammeray docking at the Milsons Point Ferry Wharf in 1899. It also shows a worker preparing to receive the ferry as passengers on board ready for disembarkation. Frederick Wills and Henry Mobsby produced several films using the Lumière Cinematographe that they had purchased for the Queensland Department of Agriculture. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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