TAGGED: 1930s
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A short film dealing with the cultivation and export of citrus fruit in Australia.

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Typical Beau Smith direction – there’s absolutely no explanation of what a line of dancing girls is doing on the edge of Dad Hayseed’s land, no establishing shots to give us a sense of the farm, no

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The lion is one of the most iconic symbols of Lunar New Year festivities.

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This 1927 model AWA Radiolette has a polished walnut redelec case with contrasting grained ivory fret and feet, four volume control/tuning dials, AWA badge, and straight line tuning dial encased in

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Eileen Joyce (1908–1991) was an Australian piano prodigy whose international career spanned more than 30 years.

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The NFSA's Teilo Nicholls discovered a recording in the collection featuring the voice of his great uncle – a well-known explorer in Papua New Guinea in the 1930s.

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Few Australian radio serials have had the enduring popularity of Yes, What?.

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In this clip, Tim Bowden explains how ABC radio, which was broadcast nationally, became a unifying factor in a big country.

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the announcer introduces Jack Hides, who gives a description of his 1935 expedition to the Strickland-Purari region of Papua, the last large unexplored area.

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In this animated cinema advertisement from the 1930s, a tradesperson is fixing a broken electric refrigerator in the kitchen.