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Down Under 8mm film reel
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Title:
Down Under 8mm film reel
NFSA ID
1691528
Year
1965
Before DVDs, Blu-rays and VHS tapes, you could own a piece of your favourite film on a reel of celluloid. These compact 8mm reels captured virtually anything that could be filmed. Clips featuring stars like Shirley Temple, Abbott and Costello and Elvis Presley were immensely popular, as were travel films that brought the world into your home – like this one called Down Under, focusing on Australian wildlife. It's a charming example of what home entertainment was like in the 1960s.
Production company
Mountain Films
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.