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Tagged: 1930s
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A Movietone News newsreel story about the premiere of the Oscar-winning In Old Chicago (Henry King, USA, 1937) at the Regent Theatre in Sydney on 21 May 1938.
Guests at the premiere include the Lord...
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Children with their dogs gather outside the Orpheum Theatre in North Sydney and the nearby Cremorne Orpheum on Military Road, Cremorne in Sydney.
The dog show was part of a promotion for the short...
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Kangaroos are hunted in the bush to be collected for museums and zoos. A kangaroo hide is presented to the camera. Kangaroos hop into a fenced enclosure and are trapped there. Two men force a hat on...
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A view from the plane looking across to two bi-planes. Bride and groom getting married, the kiss, looking out from the plane and then landing to be greeted by a large crowd.
The filming and event was...
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This clip is taken from the Fox Movietone newsreel Annette Kellerman Returns to Australia.
After living and working abroad since 1905, swimmer, vaudeville performer, silent movie star, author and...
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The Film Australia documentary Fair Play (1988) looks back over the the last 50 years of women's test cricket between Australia and England.
In this clip we meet some of the players from the 1934 and...
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This is a segment of home movie footage believed to have been filmed in 1933 by Arthur Thomas Sullivan, a merchant and amateur photographer, who was a resident of Thursday Island in the Torres Strait...
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Willie Wombat was produced by Eric Porter – Australia’s first career animator – to promote the Commonwealth Savings Bank of Australia’s School Banking program. Willie lounges and plays while the...
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Scenes from a family holiday in Sydney. Harbour views as well as a motor car journey over a newly completed Sydney Harbour Bridge. Swimming at the beach and sea pools at Bondi Beach.