The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Captain Frank Hurley, Official Australian Photographer, in a Bristol F.2B Fighter aircraft fitted with two cameras mounted on the body. Captain Ross Macpherson Smith sits in the cockpit. The original caption reads: Capt Hurley Aussie Official "Movie King" in Palestine. The largest camera, closest to the photographer is probably a movie camera.
Captain James Francis (Frank) Hurley, AIF Official Photographer, standing in the rear cockpit with a movie camera mounted on the gun ring of a Bristol Fighter aircraft flown by Captain Ross Macpherson
Captain James Francis (Frank) Hurley, Official AIF Photographer, holding a motion picture (movie) camera in the rear cockpit of the Vickers Vimy flown by the brothers, Captain Keith and Ross Macpherso
LEBANON. CAPTAIN FRANK HURLEY, OFFICIAL AIF PHOTOGRAPHER, EXPLAINS THE MYSTERY OF THE MOVIE CAMERA TO TWO GENTLEMEN OF TYRE.
MASCOT, NSW. THE AVIATORS SIR KEITH AND SIR ROSS MACPHERSON SMITH WITH CAPTAIN FRANK HURLEY (LEFT) IN THE COCKPIT OF SIR ROSS MACPHERSON SMITH'S VICKERS VIMY AIRCRAFT ON THE AIRFIELD AT MASCOT, NSW.
Captain James Francis (Frank) Hurley (right), Australian Official Photographer, with his 35mm cinecamera (probably a Debrie movie camera) and assistant, near a windmill near Reninghelst.
Pictured, left to right: Sergeant Wal Shiers, Captain Frank Hurley, Sir Keith Smith and Sergeant James Bennett, beside Sir Ross Macpherson Smith's Vickers Vimy aircraft with the cameras they used on t
