A number of Herman Hull's amateur productions were titled. He used clapper boards with "H.R. H. Presents ", "H.R.H. Monatone" or "H.R.H Movie Diary" followed by the film's particular title. He included elements of humour as well as documentary recording of Tasmanian scenes. Most films appear to be taken late 1940s and early 1950s. Most films are black and white but Hull also used kodachrome colour in 16mm film.

Here is a more detailed summary of shots, with the titling created by Hull:

NS5585/1/1

"HRH Presents Wager with Major"

Animation; car racing, vintage cars

"Out and About"

Vintage cars

Memories of yesterday

"Car wrecks"

"Rescue and dismantle"

"Fantasea"

Beach scenes

Billy Cart Racing, fire truck, beach scenes, fire

HRH Presents "Winter"

Animation - pipe clear figures and models

"HRH Presents Movie Diary Edition Two"

"Flying Boat Visits Derwent"

Tender Boat, Tour coach

"Go Karts Really Go"

"Modelling in Sand" competition

"Sea Road to Tasmania"

Princess of Tasmania

NS5585/1/2

Restoration work on vintage car

"A drive for Charity"

For Clarendon's Children's home (shows veranda)

Kingston Road to beach

Children from home at picnic

"On the Road"

Vintage cars driving, Sorell

Near Parliament house and Princess Wharf

End

Domestic footage

Trains

"Rhythm of the Rails"

Trains and railway lines

"The Rhythm changes"

Rail car near botanical gardens, pavilion point

"HRH Presents Movie Diary "Kon Tiki too makes a Tasmanian edition"

Elliott brothers loading Hydro equipment

"Plastic models for everyone"

Showing model toys

"Apple cases sprout wheels"

Making and racing billy carts

"Decorations please the eye and palate"

Cake decoration demonstration

"Rolls-Royce power for fire-fighting"

Fire trucks and equipment

NS5585/1/3

"Robert likes flowers - & the beach"

Childhood scenes

"Lindley's first party"

Domestic scenes

"Robert watches trains"

Family and beach

"Lindley and the cat"

Family

"Off to the sea"

Beach

NS5585/1/4

"HRH presents Under Sail"

"Blueprint to boat"

Building small boat "Joanna"

Small children in boat looking on

"... of a kiwi"

Makura

"Sandy Bay Regatta"

Yacht racing

NS5585/1/5

"Here, There & Everywhere Part 1"

Sailing

Beach cricket

"Oh that mule" and "The alarm clock" (Charlie Chaplin)

"Fireman Mickey" (Disney)

"Here there and everywhere "Long week end at Woodbridge with Denis, Laurie and Jim" 1948

(28/2/1948)

Boats

"The Kiwi floats again"

"Some shots of the regatta"

Driving in countryside

"Trouting at Smith's Creek"

"Jim's catch"

NS5585/1/6

"Here there and everywhere" "Easter -1948 - Holiday at Spring Beach"

Captioned, features Denis, Jim

Buckland and church and inn

Prosser River and bridge

Fishing in dingy

Camping

Swansea

"Camera capers"

Walking to Clifton Beach

"Pluto's plaything" (Disney)

NS5585/1/7

Storm and Floating Bridge

"Here there & Everywhere Part VI" "Glimpses of Home" "Lolo having a nice time" (cat), 'The White Leghorns" (poultry)

"Here there & Everywhere Part IV" "Mud Mechanics" - comical sequence with captions; these assist with identifying Herman, and thereby placing him in other footage throughout the collection

"Glimpses of Cygnet" apples etc.

NS5585/1/8

HRH presents "movie News" "Here there & Everywhere Part V"

"M. Creese launches 'Sandra' First VIII Metre Design Yacht"

"Here there & Everywhere Part VIII"

Street scenes (followed by Charlie Chaplin)

"Construction of R-F 101"

Building, domestic scenes, picking fruit

NS5585/1/9

Walking down Elizabeth St and along Morrison St; Franklin Hotel (corner Elizabeth and Morrison Streets); Telegraph Hotel; Waterman's Dock; Cartela.

Castray Esplanade; lower domain possibly intersection of Park and Liverpool streets (before Railway Roundabout)

Floating Bridge

Felling trees

"H.R.H. Presents" - "Here, There and Everywhere, Part 1 "A Day's Outing"

Sign to South Arm and Clifton Beach; farm scenes; piggery; picnic at beach; Ralph's Bay Canal

"Here, There and Everywhere, Part 2" "Historic Tasman Peninsula"

Lookout, Eaglehawk Neck; Lufra; Pioneer tours coaches; interior of Lufra Hotel; Tessellated Pavement; blowhole; Tasman's Arch; Port Arthur

Sawing wood; yacht

NS5585/1/10

"H.R.H. Monatone" "Free day" "Held at Richmond"

Tasman Highway towards floating bridge; Richmond scenes; picnic; film cameras on tripods (Film Society?)

Driving across floating bridge

Bellerive/Lindisfarne; digging/construction.

Speed boats; Bellerive beach from Rosny Hill

"H.R.H. Movie Diary Part III". "Jubilee Day" [1951 Jubilee of Federation]

Crowd corner Liverpool and Argyle Streets, Carlton Club Hotel; parade with various floats

"Storm lashes Bridge"

Extensive footage of floating bridge and River Derwent during storm.

Sports carnival at oval; Harvest Queen (second birthday) and floats - possibly at grounds in Huon area.

"H.R.H. Movie Diary Part 1" "Clifton Beach - colour

Beach scenes and picnic (the reverts to black and white)

Roaring beach, scenery, picnic, fishing

"H.R.H. Monatone". "Movie Spot Shot" Part 3 "Gas and Grit"

Parade of cars

Racing- cars, bikes and dirt bikes (colour) (possibly at land which became Baskerville)

"Pathe Panorama"

This appears to be a demonstration -possibly of technique/film quality - shows various scenes, predominantly East Coast e.g. Mayfield, Spiky Bridge.

"H.R.H. Movie Spot Shot" "Eagle Hawk Neck" (colour)

Various scenes, including Lufra Hotel, fishing, camping, tessellated pavement etc.

"Port Arthur Convict Colony"

"H.R.H. Movie Diary Part II" "Bush Flowers" View of Sandy Bay Road or Augusta Road (?) then bushland featuring native flora (colour)

Feature on Telephones -

Includes Hobart Telegraph Exchange building on Sandy Bay Road and internal engineering of the system (black and white)

Mount Field - Russell Falls (black and white, then colour); snow fight

"H.R.H. Presents" "Coles Bay" - colour - features various scenes e.g. Wine Glass Bay, granite quarry, fishing boat, flora, caravan, The Chateau at Coles Bay, tennis

Cenotaph, Hobart Regatta

"H.R.H. presents "Artist in the Botanical Gardens" (kodachrome colour)

GPO Hobart, walking to botanical gardens across Domain; various garden scenes including walls, lily pond, gates, conservatory and general layout looking down to river; shows man sketching and painting in watercolours

"The Golden Urn" "Artistic Sets and Drawings by Rosa Mapley", "Special Effects?" "An H.R. H. Production"; a mini theatrical production with figures and movement

"Royal visit" colour

Preparation for the Royal visit 1954 at Parliament House, crowds, ship "Gothic" arriving, a fly past, crowds in Hunter Street, North Hobart Oval and school children in formation

NS5585/1/11

Family baby footage

These records are part of the holdings of the Tasmanian Archives