The seven minute reel-to-reel film, ‘A day at the School Teachers’ Conference held at beautiful Beechworth’ was donated to the Burke Museum by local resident, Doug Craig who had the footage converted to DVD with the assistance of the Lions Club of Beechworth.
It shows the classic gold era streetscapes of the town in Victoria’s north east to be completely unchanged in more than a century.
Only the horse-drawn vehicles, period clothing and absence of roundabout at the town’s main intersection are different in 2011.
