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Paris Comes to Sydney
Title:
Paris Comes to Sydney
NFSA ID
4729
Year
1956
Courtesy
Cinesound Movietone Productions
'Paris Comes to Sydney: Lavish French Exhibition at Royal Show' shows Australian enthusiasm for all things French at the Royal Easter Show in Sydney in 1956.
Prime Minister Robert Menzies opens the exhibition which includes French fabrics, glassware, fashions, Peugeot and Citroën cars, homewares and furniture valued at a total of £1 million.
This newsreel segment comes from Cinesound Review No 1273.
Notes by Beth Taylor
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