Historical Videos

The FCRPA has a YouTube Channel containing a collection of historical videos related to forestry activities.

The Association remains indebted to the Australian Centre for the Moving Image for digitizing the original films held by the Forests Commission and for their ongoing care and management.

The two Isuzu tanker videos were produced by Rawdon Sthradher. Rawdon was originally a photographer and video producer with the Soil Conservation Authority and then CFL in all its various guises for 12 years. He freelanced for the next 20 years, and in that time still did quite a bit of work for Fire Management, Fisheries and other sections of the Department.

The collection has been thematically grouped, with links to each provided below.

 

 
 
Fire Management

Fire Retardant Operations - Snowy Range, February 1986

The Water & Foam video is in two parts because of YouTube restrictions on size. Will seek to connect them at some stage.

Water & Foam - Part 1

Water & Foam - Part 2

2004: Isuzu FTS 750 4x4 Tanker, Diesel

2006: Isuzu FTS 750 4x4 Tanker, Diesel with CTI

Bushfire - Corryong District - 1978

Forests Commission Fire Equipment Depot

Water Against Wildfire

Learn to Live with Fire - Advertisements - 1 of 5

Learn to Live with Fire - Advertisements - 2 of 5

Learn to Live with Fire - Advertisements - 3 of 5

Learn to Live with Fire - Advertisements - 4 of 5

Learn to Live with Fire - Advertisements - 5 of 5

Blackout

The Hand of Man

The 1925/26 Fire Season

Dancing and the Devil Fire - 2002-03 Fires, Victorian Alps

Gel Fuel Flamethrower 2010

Ramset Incendiary Launcher

Forests and Fire DSE ca 2004-2005

In the Path of a Firestorm - Victoria 2003

Line in the Bush - DSE 2003

Fire Lessons including Toolangi FCV 1950s

Firefighting - Kennedy's Creek, Heytesbury Forest 1951

Measuring Fuel Moisture Content

Aerial Drip Torch - Regeneration Burn Otways March 2000

Great Divide Fires - Dec 2006 to Feb 2007

Black Saturday 2009

Fire Equipment 1995-2000

Related Videos (not available on our Youtube Channel)

The Timber Getters, 1952, NFSA
The first part of the film is set in the Tyers Valley ... (see more)

Climax No. 1694  © 2013 James Brook
This historic locomotive came back into service on 8th September 2013 ... (see more)

Timber Town WA

Fire Danger Extreme

Murtoa Stick Shed