This Splendid Hobby Of Ours

We're told that with the availability of digital technology anyone can make a movie these days, but there are many South Australians to whom this is old news. There have long been groups who believed that film should belong to ordinary people. Since the 1930s, these spirited amateurs have produced a body of work that is both inventive and intensely local. Join us for an overview of the South Australian Amateur Cine Society and the Adelaide Filmo Club, two groups who made films against the odds, simply for the love of working with the medium. Thrill to the adventures of aviator Jimmy Melrose in The Lone Girl Flyer, marvel at the DIY surgery of The Operation, and catch up with our own Mr Photography, John Mack. Produced by Flinders University Screen Studies and the State Library of South Australia and narrated by Lionel Williams, longtime Adelaide tv personality and star of The Felt Hat.

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