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Australasian Gazette: Goodbye Sunny New South Wales
Title:
Australasian Gazette: Goodbye Sunny New South Wales
NFSA ID
12407
Year
1917
This newsreel footage from 1917 encourages young men to enlist for the First World War. It shows a public parade for soldiers travelling overseas to fight. Summary by Elizabeth Taggart Speers.
This Australasian Gazette newsreel uses an intertitle to introduce the story and a wide shot to capture the parade.
Apart from encouraging recruitment, the parade also aimed to increase awareness of Australia’s contribution to the First World War (also known as the Great War), which ended in 1918.
Newsreels were an integral part of cinema programming in Australia before the advent of television in 1956. Issued on a weekly basis, the newsreels enabled people to further engage with local and national political stories and events.
Notes by Elizabeth Taggart-Speers
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