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Tagged: 1930s
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Queenie Ashton (as the titular queen) and Harvey Adams (as Louis XVI) in the 1939 radio serial Marie Antoinette.
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Written by the prolific scriptwriter Anthony Scott Veitch, the series features members of the BSA Players. It was produced by Harvey Adams who also played the role of Captain Bligh. Episode one...
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Officially opened on 19 March 1932, the Sydney Harbour Bridge was a massive engineering undertaking that transformed the city.
For six years the two half-arches gradually drew closer together. A...
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Michael Leahy’s photographs and footage show the highlanders surrounding and looking at a gramophone (with a 1930s recording of ‘Looking on the Bright Side of Life’ playing on the soundtrack). In an...
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This Movietone Newsreel from 1938 follows a young boy from the suburb of Bellevue Hill as he takes a trip on his bicycle through the busy streets of Sydney. The boy's pet Kelpie jumps on his back to...
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This newsreel segment from 1933 profiles Australian Jack Crawford, the world No. 1 men’s tennis player that year.
He won the Australian Open, the French Open and Wimbledon but fell short of being the...
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In his only filmed performance, broadcaster, singer, composer and performing artist Jack O’Hagan recites his most famous composition 'Along the Road to Gundagai’ (1922).
This performance was filmed...
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In his only filmed performance, broadcaster, singer, composer and performing artist Jack O’Hagan recites his composition 'Carry On' (1931).
This performance was filmed for part of Frank Thring’s...
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Kellerman was 52 years old when her husband and manager Jimmie Sullivan filmed this rare footage of her performing the underwater adagio - a slow ballet dance.
It was filmed in the crystal clear...
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This home movie footage was shot by Kethel Timothy (KT) Buckley, father of filmmaker Anthony Buckley, in the 1930s in Sydney. It features a koala and then a kangaroo with joey; where the film was...