TAGGED: 1920s
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This full colour lithograph promotes the UFA production The Grand Duke’s Finances (original German title: Die Finanzen des Großherzogs).

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This poster features a relatively simple design of Toni (Jack Buchanan) dressed in a suit and top hat peeking out from behind a red panel.

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The production company chose to have jazz singer Annette Hanshaw’s face dominate this poster from 1925.

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Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson (1864-1941) was a poet, solicitor, journalist, war correspondent and soldier.

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This footage is believed to be the oldest existing footage of rugby league in Australia.

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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.

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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’.

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This is one of the Sydney recordings by touring Hawaiian artists David and Queenie Kaili, also known as The Hawaiian Entertainers.

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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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Julia Balog in Melodie des Herzens (AKA Melody of the Heart, Germany, Hans Schwarz, 1929). From the Taussig film stills collection.