page_title: Bert Ive
section_title: Filmography as cinematographer
hierarchical_section_title: Bert Ive / Filmography as cinematographer
caption_attribution_description: English: A 35mm Debrie Parvo movie camera, Model L, made in 1927. Mounted on a Debrie Tripod. Seen at the Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, New York.
context_page_description: Bert Ive was a British-born Australian cinematographer, who was the first long-term cinematographer and still photographer in Australia. During his career as a film photographer for the federal government from 1913 to 1939, he frequently travelled across Australia to photograph the country's landscapes, industries, people and famous events. His motion pictures and still photos were used to promote Australia to the rest of the world.
context_section_description: In the silent film era, Bert Ive made a documentary about Ballarat in June 1927. In and Around Ballarat begins from the Blackball Observation Deck and looks westward MacArthur Street to Lake Wendouree showing today's unidentifiable electric trams and the mining dumps that served commuters from 1905 to 1971. The film shows the industrial and agricultural after the First World War in a modern inland city, but people still remember the glory days of the gold rush with men holding plaster casts of some lumps of gold discovered during the ore boom, containing 69 kilograms of "Welcome Nugget" found on June 9, 1858 at Bakery Mountain, this is the largest gold nugget had ever seen in the world. At the end of the film, the representative of the Eureka Rebellion was founded in 1893 by the rebel leader Peter Larol, who had the Eureka Stockade plaque on the base. Larol survived the rebellion and became a member of parliament at last.
  The Conquest of the Pacific is a black and white silent documentary in 1928 that celebrated the first flight across the Pacific Ocean. The plane named "Southern Cross" arrived in Brisbane on June 9, 1928, and Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew members became the first to fly across the Pacific. Smith bought a second-hand Fokker F.VIIb without engines in America from Sir Hubert Wilkins, who was an Arctic explorer. Then he installed new engines to cross the Pacific along with his co-pilot Charles Ulm, navigator Harry Lyon and radio operator Jim Warner. On May 31, 1928, they departed from Oakland, California, and flew to Eagle Farm Airport in Brisbane via Suva and Hawaii. The distance was 11,585 kilometers and the flight time was 83 hours and 50 minutes. They were caught in austere storms on the way, those increasing the risk of flying and navigation over ocean. The crew had to write down course directions and information in these situations. Besides, Smith and the "Southern Cross" completed some important flights after crossing the Pacific. They flew over the Australian Continent ceaselessly and first crossed Tasman after crossing the Atlantic east-west. In order to commemorate the historic flight, Bert made the film to record it. The silent film covered four captions, these were used to clarify what was going to happen next on screen. It started from a subtitle "Excited crowds await the ‘Southern Cross’ at Brisbane", then introduced the scene of the "Southern Cross" stopping on taxiway. The second subtitle, "Captain Kingsford Smith is the first to land", was followed by a shot of Kingsford Smith waving to the crowd then another member and him were hoisted by the crowd. The next two subtitles were "Followed by his fellow countryman, C. T. P. Ulm, and Americans Lyon and Warner" and "The crowd takes possession", which introduced the scene in which Kingsford Smith and other crew members were taken by the crowd to a car which specially waiting for them. The film depicts the moment of Kingsford Smith's first major international aviation victory. Some details shown in the film, such as Smith's appearance from the cockpit with cigarette, and it displayed tobacco which was accepted universally at that time. Importantly, it records the views of "South Cross", a wingspan is 23 meters, the length is 15 meters, 3.9 meters high, with a Fokker F.VIIb-3m. The "Southern Cross" is on exhibition at International Airport of Brisbane today.
  The lyrical documentary Among the Hardwoods was filmed in southwestern Western Australia. The film presented an impressive depiction of the lumbering in the state. It recorded all the sounds of the bush faithfully including the bullock teams, a sawmill and the axemen, except spoken commentary. In 1926, Ive and Lacey Percival re-shot a silent documentary for the federal government's Know Your Own Country series, they improved the sound version on the original in different methods.
  Driving a Girl to Destruction is filmed by cinematographer Bert Ive, the director is George Marlow. The film was produced by the Australian Picturized Drama Company, founded by theatre enterpriser George Marlow
caption: Ive used a 35mm Debrie Parvo movie camera, Model L, made in 1927
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