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This collection of early 20th-century newsreels captures Australia’s major events and everyday moments, offering audiences their first moving-image window on the nation’s people, places, and politics.
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This collection of early 20th-century newsreels captures Australia’s major events and everyday moments, offering audiences their first moving-image window on the nation’s people, places, and politics.
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