Lost in 16mm – All Footage Screenings

Lost in 16mm – The Collection of Peter Gamble

Television host and reporter Peter Gamble was involved in making stories for early BTV Television shows around 1973/74 for BTV Juniors in Ballarat. When Peter passed in 2005, he left a collection of his raw 16mm film to his sister Susie. Susie was introduced to Rex by BTV On Air newsreader Craig Campbell.

The material consists of multiple 16mm reels and has arrived back in Ballarat and has been digitised by H Squared Studios at Ballarat Trades Hall, so the family can see Peter’s legacy and celebrate it with the local community.

The final resting place for the material is to be NFSA in Canberra.

Crowd-funding during test screenings has allowed the work to be digitised – a time capsule of a time long gone in Ballarat (and Melbourne).

George Farmer Bacon factory in operation

Coronet Caravans being built in Norman St

John Valves pouring molten metal

A comical tour through the Village Drive in Sebastopol

An interview with Ron Green of Green’s Pies, 13 Main Rd

A tour of the Sunshine Biscuit Factory in full operation baking biscuits

Ballarat railway precinct showing the original gates opened by hand operated wheel

A Linton Railmotor arriving

and much more – see full listing via the website.