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Tagged: 1920s

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Sittin on the Moon by Queenie and David Kaili
This is a formative recording of Australian Hawaiian music. The Kailis were Hawaiian-born musicians who toured and recorded in Australia in the 1920s and early 30s, making 23 records for Parlophone...
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Opening of the Columbia Graphophone Company by Admiral Sir Dudley De Chair KCB MVO
The opening of the Columbia Graphophone Company record factory in Homebush, Sydney on 14 October 1926 marks the beginning of the record industry in Australia. The first recording plant in Australasia...
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For the Term of His Natural Life: Musical accompaniment
This clip features imagery of the film For the Term of his Natural Life (originally released in 1927, but restored by the NFSA in 1981). This version of the film includes musical accompaniment from...
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Moonlight and Noses
Excerpt from a silent comedy short directed by Stan Laurel and starring Australian comic Clyde Cook, James Finlayson, Tyler Brooke and an 18-year-old Fay Wray, of King Kong (1933) fame. The film was...
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Maxonol Gramophone: Buy a Good Gramophone and Keep Her at Home (1925)
This clip shows an entire Maxonol Gramophone cinema advertisement from 1925 in which a couple decide to buy a gramophone to keep their daughter at home. They visit the Maxonol demonstration room and...
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Sydney Tramways: Anzac Parade Junction (c.1928)
At Anzac Parade Junction, trams carry crowds from the racecourse to Circular Quay and from the Sydney Showground to Central Station. The busy intersection is a bustling chaos of trams, buses, cars...
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Those Who Love trailer excerpt
This film was the first venture by the McDonagh sisters: Paulette, director and principal writer; Phyllis (the youngest), business manager, publicist and art director; and Isabel, who acted under the...
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Inside the New Orpheum, North Sydney
A short film segment with inter-titles highlighting the benefits of the newly rebuilt North Sydney Orpheum Theatre. Notable features include a lounge, cloakroom and – more unusually – hat clips on...
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Talkie Season Opens: Wintergarden Theatre
This silent clip begins with a title card announcing that the Wintergarden Theatre is the 'first theatre in the world to present a completely new invention in Talking Picture Equipment’. This is...
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Hoyts Cinemas: Talkies for Country Areas
An intertitle invites viewers to 'see for a brief moment’ the sound equipment for talking pictures. Then a Hoyts Talking Pictures Roadshow sound unit truck is seen coming down the street. Two...
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