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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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Song about female aviator Amy Johnson written by Jack O’Hagan and sung by Bob Molyneux.
Embassy 8097
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Buddy Williams sings Lonesome For Your Mother Dear, a sad song about a man missing his dead mother. This clip is from the start of the song.
Summary by Paul Byrnes
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'Wrap Me Up With My Stockwhip and Blanket’ was recorded by Tex Morton in August 1936 for Regal Zonophone at EMI Studios in Sydney. Morton sings and plays guitar on this recording of the song. The...
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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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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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In this animated cinema advertisement from the 1930s, a tradesperson is fixing a broken electric refrigerator in the kitchen.
A male voice-over suggests an ice refrigerator is superior because 'ice...
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This early cinema ad appeals to the ‘pester power’ of children by using an animated cartoon to promote Sellex products.
In this partly animated advertisement for a Sellex tea set, some of the...
