This silent newsreel captures the excitement of international travel in the 1920s. The ocean liner is covered in streamers and its departure is a major event. Being silent, intertitles have been used to explain what is on screen and to link chronological segments together to tell the story.

Newsreels were an integral part of cinema programming in Australia before the advent of television in 1956. Issued on a weekly basis, newsreels enabled people to further engage with local and national political stories and events.

Notes by Elizabeth Taggart-Speers