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Tagged: 1920s
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A shot of Hurley’s boat and his seaplane being unloaded off a ship from Sydney at Hanuabada, near Port Moresby. The people in their canoes help Hurley with his plane.
Summary by Liz McNiven
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Arbor Day at the Heidelberg Golf Club, a day where individuals and groups are encouraged to plant trees. A procession of vintage cars follows and the high society of the day are in attendance wearing...
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Inspection of the land being purchased as the site for the new Heidelberg Golf Club. It shows the sparse geography of the Heidelberg area during the 1920s and it could even be argued that the...
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This clip shows a group of club members assembled on the steps of the main building and then showing their skills at teeing off (some merely performing practice swings). Curiously the main gate...
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An NFSA digital restoration of the silent version of The Cheaters (Paulette McDonagh, Australia, 1929). Completed in 2017.
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This is a whimsical item from a newsreel segment that shows the road and pedestrian traffic around the Flinders and Swanston St intersection in Melbourne, as well as a ride on a South Melbourne tram...
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This short excerpt from Venus of the South Seas (James Sullivan, USA, 1924) shows Annette Kellerman performing underwater as both a mermaid and a princess.
Kellerman pioneered the art of underwater...
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The film begins with Wirth's famous circus elephants being dressed in their costume rugs. This is followed by a menagerie of animals: horses, ponies, zebras, more elephants and a caged lion.
The...
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A fixed camera positioned on the edge of an outdoor arena captures ringmaster and circus proprietor Philip Wirth rehearsing with his trick pony, Earl Dudley. The pony is led around the arena on a...
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Australian-born and world famous tightrope circus artist Con Colleano (Cornelius Sullivan, 1899 –1973) features in this home movie of informal Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Combined Circus '...