The website Australian Screen collects and preserves heritage films and has some online.
One film in particular is a short film of Perth in 1907. It’s an old black and white film showing crowds on the street, shop fronts, trams, horses and bicycles. The 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.
Street scenes in Perth WA, 1907
The film was made by Leonard Corrick, who would have advertised the time and place of filming to ensure crowds on the street and the ‘inadvertent’ fight in the film was possibly set up by the Corrick as an added attraction.
[Source: www.aso.gov.au]
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