Leonard Corrick’s camera moves up and down the streets of Perth recording the action on the street. At one point a man bumps into another man in the street and fisticuffs ensue as the camera moves past.
Watch the official Street Scenes in Perth, Western Australia 1907 trailer in HD below.
Australia 09 March 1907
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1907:
01 February 1907
A crew row their way from the S.S. Kinau through troublesome water to the shore.
01 January 1907
Compilation of two shorts also distributed independently: Cricket und Reifenspiel [Croquet and the Arc and Hook Game], and Springschnur und Amazonen [Jump Roping and the Amazons].
23 May 1907
A middle-aged woman in rural dress and a young woman in a smarter dress are picking up herbs in a forest.
01 February 1907
Dock workers offloading bags of sugar in Hawaii
23 February 1907
A traveler stays the night at a rural inn, but gets no rest as he is tormented by various spectres and mysterious happenings.
11 September 1907
Many demonstrations of the art of Jiu Jitsu are given, and as evidence that this is not a passing fad intended only for the amusement of the public there is illustrated in very thrilling manner how several footpads follow two girls and then in a deserted section of the road make an attack, which is successfully foiled and the perpetrators taken into custody.
17 February 1907
The film, a parody of the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, follows a fisherman, Yves, who dreams of traveling by submarine to the bottom of the ocean, where he encounters both realistic and fanciful sea creatures, including a chorus of naiads played by dancers from the Théâtre du Châtelet.
07 December 1907
The first adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
01 May 1907
Scenes of Theodore Roosevelt at the Jamestown Exposition in Norfolk, Virginia, in April and June, 1907, participating in Jamestown's tercentennial celebration on April 26, its opening day, and later on Georgia Day, June 10.
01 January 1907
Highlights from the 1907 French Grand Prix race.
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