TAGGED: 1930s
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A film from 1937 about an expedition led by Sydney businessman, H. V. Foy to Central Australia to trace the story of Harry Lasseter and his lost gold reef.

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Darley (Frank Harvey) has just shot dead Charles Blake (Campbell Copelin), in Jim Thornton’s cabin. Blake had made Claire Darley pregnant, then refused to marry her.

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A union agitator urges Burbridge’s timber workers to strike for better pay, or join the opposition firm, run by Charles Blake.

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Darley (Frank Harvey) and Charles Blake (Campbell Copelin) plot the sabotage of Stephen Burbridge’s timber-cutting operations.

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George (George Wallace) leaps into song in the courtyard of Mrs McAllister’s dog kennel (and boarding house). Jean McAllister (Lois Green) whips off her skirt to join him, dancing in hotpants.

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George (George Wallace) has to display the prize new gorilla to the zoo’s best patron, Mr Inchcape (Harold Meade), but the animal is sick, so George’s mate Henry (John Dobbie) dresses in a gorilla

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Sam Harris (Harry Abdy) and his girlfriend Bella (Rita Pauncefort) are parked by the harbour, talking wedding rings and marriage, when they hear beautiful violin music.

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John Ainsworth (Lloyd Hughes) has been out of work for months when he runs into two old university acquaintances. They take a drink at a city bar, where a man selling shoelaces approaches.

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We pay tribute to aviation pioneer Amy Johnson this International Women's Day

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Johnnie, our aeroplane girl [sheet music] / words and music by Jack Lumsdaine, Columbia Records, 1930.