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Taagepera

2019 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Peeter Simm
Expatriate Estonians in Australia, Film No. 10

Title in Estonian: Austraalia eestlased 10. film

1995-1996 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director: Lembit Blauhut

Efforts to preserve national culture: 11th Estonian Days in Melbourne, journalism and radio programmes in Estonian.

Church service in St. John's Church to inaugurate the 11th Estonian Days in Melbourne, church minister Hans Henning Lüdig is serving. Arnold Perendi, a founding member of the Union of Estonian Societies in Australia, recalls organizing the first Estonian days in 1954. The organizers were Leonid Kallas, Erik Maasepp and Juhan Viiding. At the festive meeting Ilmar Mägraken, founding member of the Union of Estonian Societies in Australia, expresses his gratitude towards Bruno Metsar and Evald Mõisa, the general organizers of Estonian Days. Metsar and Mõisa have led the cultural big event twice; Evald Mõisa has also been the main ...
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Expatriate Estonians in Australia, Film No. 11

Title in Estonian: Austraalia eestlased 11. film

1995-1996 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director: Lembit Blauhut

Estonian Consulate General in Sydney, activities of Estonian Houses and unions in Australia.

Women prepare for the evening gathering at the Estonian Consulate General in Sydney. Malle Rohver, the General Consul in Australia, talks about the consul's daily work and about Aldur Kaljo, the former General Consul. Those who are interested in Estonia will receive materials from the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Estonian Institute; introducing Estonia is one of the main activities of the General Consul. Soloist of Sydney Opera, Ingrid Silvaeus, is singing while being accompanied by the song's author Inno Salasoo. Malle Rohver recalls the death of her father in the prison camp in Russia and escaping the island ...
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Expatriate Estonians in Australia, Film No. 3. Part 1

Title in Estonian: Austraalia eestlased 3. film, I jagu

1995-1996 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director: Lembit Blauhut

Film introducing the life of expatriate Estonians living in Adelaide, capital of South Australia.

Monument of William Light, the founder of the city of Adelaide. The city is known for its greenery and sandy beaches. Also, one of the largest communities of expatriate Estonians in Australia lives here. Ilmar Mägraken, chairman of the board of the Association of Estonian Unions in Australia, introduces his hobby - lawn bowls. There are large tennis and lawn bowls grounds at Marryatville Club, Kensington. Men playing. Heino Sommer, chairman of the Estonian house in Adelaide, introduces the history of the building - the house was bought in 1958, it was renovated and additional buildings were constructed. The great ...
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Expatriate Estonians in Australia, Film No. 6. Part 1

Title in Estonian: Austraalia eestlased 6. film, I jagu

1995-1996 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director: Lembit Blauhut

Life of expatriate Estonians in Canberra, Australia - past times and at the present day. The life story of a famous scientist Armin Öpik.

Views of Canberra, capital of Australia - House of Parliament, War Memorial of Australia. Interior space of the House of Parliament - former Prime Ministers Gough Whitlam and Robert Hawk, QUeen Elizabeth II, Senator Dorothy Tangney, member of Parliament Enid Lyons, Senator of Queensland Neville Thomas Bonner have been depicted on paintings. Chamber of the Parliament. Order of Australia, designed by Vambola Veinberg born in Tallinn, is exhibited in the House of Parliament. Reet Bergman, chairwoman of the Estonian Association in Canberra, talks about the local Estonian community. She recalls the ride with a hot-air balloon on the Nations Day ...
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Expatriate Estonians in Australia. Film No.1, part 1

Title in Estonian: Austraalia eestlased 1. film, I jagu

1995-1996 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director: Lembit Blauhut

Organizations of expatriate Estonians in Australia. Political fight for supporting the existence of Estonia and for declaring the occupation by the Soviet Union as an illegal act.

Ilmar Mägraken, the founding member of the Association of Estonian Societies in Australia, leads the meeting after the 16th Estonian Days in Melbourne have ended and expresses his gratitude to Bruno Metsar, the manager of the organizational committee. At his home in Sydney, Arnold Perendi recollects the founding of the Association of Estonian Societies in Australia in January 1952. Since expatriate Estonians were scattered around Australia, the association was founded on the basis of regional societies, all local societies became members of the association. The most important event was organizing the Estonian Days, national upbringing of local youth, founding further ...
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Baltic Freedom 1991 Celebration at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto

Title in Estonian: Balti riikide vabanemise tähistamine Torontos

1991 | Film footage, Amateur films, Newsreel, Other categories | Director:

Celebration of "Baltic Freedom´91" at Nathan Phillips Square, Torontos. The Baltic people in Canada are celebrating the restoration of the Baltic States.

Hundreds of expatriate Baltic people have gathered under the national flags to Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto on the evening of November 1st. People in high spirits are celebrating the restoration of the independence in three Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Art Eggleton, mayor of Toronto, holds an opening speech after which a memorial tablet "Freedom Arches" is being inaugurated. The tablet has been applied to a post taken from the Berlin Wall and has texts in English and French on it. There are representatives of the expatriate Baltic youth lining up at the square, dressed in national ...
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Baltic meeting

Title in Estonian: Leedu pagulasorganisatsioonide esindajate kohtumine Kanadas

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Representatives of Lithuanian refugee organizations discuss the political situation in Lithuania after the attempted coup by Moscow on August 20, 1991.

Discussion between the representatives of Lithuanian refugee organisations (synchronized) and forming common position in the subject of national independence of Lithuania after the Moscow coup attempt on August 20, 1991. Lithuanian representative gives a TV interview (synchronized) where the situation in the Soviet Union is being explained. Also, he expresses the need to support democratic powers in his homeland.
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Baltic meeting. Representatives of national organisations of Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia meet in Canada

Title in Estonian: Balti pagulasorganisatsioonide esindajate kohtumine Torontos

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Representatives of Baltic refugee organizations together with the representative of Canadian Parliament discuss the political situation in the Baltic States after the coup d'état in Moscow on August 20, 1991.

Representatives of Baltic refugee organizations together with the representative of Canadian Parliament discuss the political situation in the Baltic States after the coup d'état in Moscow on August 20, 1991. TV interviews with Laas Leivat, Al Pačevicius and John Eichmanis (simultaneous translation) where the support from Canada is being asked in order to restore the independence of the Baltic States and establish new legal governments in these countries.
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Baltics 1987 – Demonstration and Parade in Toronto

Original title: Balti ühtsuse päev Torontos 1987

1989 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Celebrating the memorial day of those deported from the Baltic States in Toronto where the local Baltic people hold a street procession and speeches on June 14th, 1989.

The procession of the Baltic people living in Canada moves from St Paul's Cathedral towards the Toronto City Hall along Bloor, Yonge and Queen Streets. First goes the drummer, followed by young women in Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian national costumes and waving the national flags. Riina Kindlam is carrying the Estonian national flag. The slogans at the demonstration express disapproval towards the occupation of the Baltic states and deportation that took place on June 14th 1941 that ruined the lives of more than 800,000 Baltic people. When the sun goes down the memorial candles are being carried. Demonstration and speeches ...
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