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Tagged: 1920s
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Bundaberg-born Herbert John Louis Hinkler (1892–1933), better known as Bert Hinkler, piloted the very first solo flight between England and Australia in just over 15 days using Avro Avian G-EBOV. His...
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Fashionable garments are modelled displaying a range of designers clothes include a dress by couturier Melnotte Simonin; a hand-embroidered coat with fur trim by designer Jacques Heim, a painted...
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This silent footage is only a small part of a personal collection donated to Film Australia in 2006 and now part of the NFSA FAC Library collection. Donated by Mr Gordon Innes it represents his...
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Two women dressed in dark underwear, silk stockings and shoes model two styles of Berlei corsetry. They stand on raised platforms in front of a plain backdrop, the larger space of the studio visible...
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This footage is believed to be the oldest existing footage of rugby league in Australia.
It shows part of a game between the NZ Maori and NSW Seconds teams, played at the Sydney Cricket Ground on 5...
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A short newsreel about the opening NSW rugby league games of the 1924 season. South Sydney defeat Western Suburbs, 13-5, in the rain. Easts defeat Newtown by a single point, 14-13.
The game’s...
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In the closing minutes of this advertisement, mannequins and live models appear in Berlei’s figure-hugging foundation garments, the ‘basis for all frocking’. After an elaborate pyramid display of...
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This silent documentary shows the landscape and townships along the Murray River and is from a series made in the 1920s called See Australia First.
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Aboriginal men breaking in horses and donkeys and racing them at Moola Bulla Government Station, East Kimberley. Round Australia with the MacRobertson Expedition (1928)
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In this 1920 newsreel, work commences at Victoria Parade for the electrification of the cable tram system of Collins Street, Melbourne.