Out of the garage onto the silver screen: Corrick Collection unearths some of Australia’s earliest movies

People milling about the Royal Perth Show in the early 1900s, horse-drawn carriages jostling with electric trams, men getting their shoes shone, and women out shopping in ankle-length dresses.

It is an extraordinary window into a world that disappeared more than a century ago, and now is your chance to see it.

Leonard Corrick, one of the nation’s pioneering movie makers, is being celebrated this week with the first public screening of some of his remarkable scenes of early Australian life.

Corrick amassed an extraordinary collection of 135 movie reels over his lifetime, now considered some of the best preserved films from the early 1900s and known as the Corrick Collection.

But for decades the 35mm nitrate film reels sat in a Launceston…