Instruction booklet for Kodak Magazine Cine-Kodak Eight Model 90 8mm movie camera: Captain Roderick Frank Arthur Strang, Australian Army Medical Corps

Instruction booklet for the Magazine Cine-Kodak Eight movie camera. A 48-page booklet, this appears to be for a post war version of the camera. Stored in the leather case together with the movie camera.

Camera owned and operated by Captain Roderick Frank Arthur Strang, Australian Army Medical Corps. Strang, born in Croyden, NSW on 27 April 1915, was living in Victoria when he enlisted on 7 January 1941, and served in Egypt, Lebanon and the Western Desert before being transferred to New Guinea, where he served at Buna, Gona and Sanananda with 2/11 Australian General Hospital.

Writing to the Australian War Memorial in 1987 when he offered this donation, he noted: 'I enclose the camera and films. The short film shows the Wirraway patrolling the beach after we had taken Gona and the two officers on the beach are Major Sublet and Captain Christian. Sublet said 'put the glass on the plane' which was coming around Sanananda Point, as it did not look like a Beaufighter. As we watched, the Wirraway climbed and shot the Zero down. The film shows a Zero hitting the water...Later Major Herman swam out to the wreckage and the pilot had been shot in the head.'

Captain Strang had earlier shot footage of the AIF ski School in Lebanon in 1941. The footage is a mixture of black and white and colour.