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Tagged: 1930s
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A short film dealing with the cultivation and export of citrus fruit in Australia. It emphasises the importance of the health benefits of the fruit and the scientific methods undertaken to ensure it'...
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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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Cinesound Newsreel showing a traditional Chinese dance during lunar new year celebrations in 1937 - Year of the Ox.
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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...
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'Nearly 60,000 school children are being given the privilege of crossing the Sydney Harbour Bridge before its opening' in March 1932.
Eight-year-old Kenneth Jones stands atop one of the arches (...
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Three year old Victor Willey Jr gives a customer a smooth shave with a sharp razor, at his father's barbershop in Sydney's Brighton-Le-Sands in 1938.
This is an excerpt from Movietone News A0233 from...
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This is a short excerpt from Community Broadcasting Association radio program Arts Alive from 2005, featuring an interview with author Richard Evans.
The interview followed the release of Evans'...
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This newsreel reconstructs the coronial inquest into the Pyjama Girl mystery, one of the most baffling unsolved murder cases in Australian criminal history.
The clip opens with the discovery of new...
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This 1930s newsreel recounts the coronial inquest into the Pyjama Girl mystery, one of the most baffling unsolved murder cases in Australian criminal history.
It reconstructs courtroom scenes and the...