TAGGED: 1910s
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A point-of-view shot from the front of a train as it travels along a section of new track and makes its way into Port Augusta.

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Jimmy Cook (Sandy McVea), an Aboriginal detective, has been assigned to the Special Service to help Jack Airlie (Snowy Baker) crack a ring of German spies operating in Australia during the First Wo

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Jack and Jimmy have discovered the gang’s secret city hide-out. Gang boss Bill Warne (Billy Ryan) escapes, pursued by Jack (Snowy Baker).

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Jack (Snowy Baker) has pursued the German spies to the secret beach from which they will rendezvous with a German ship.

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Bill (Arthur Tauchert) is upset when Doreen (Lottie Lyell) arrives to meet him, followed by 'the stror 'at coot’ – a rival for her affections (Harry Young, wearing the straw hat).

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Bill (Arthur Tauchert) and his 'cobber’ Ginger Mick (Gilbert Emery) go to the illicit 'two-up’ school after several hours of drinking.

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This silent historical footage filmed by Millard Johnson and William Gibson captures the opening of the Prahran-Malvern Tramway, Victoria, on 30 May 1910, at a time when few people had seen moving

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Q&A with CJ Dennis biographer Phil Butters nearly 100 years after the publication of The Sentimental Bloke.

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As Canberra celebrates its centenary, Jennifer Coombes highlights Raymond Longford's footage of the naming of Canberra.