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Tagged: 1930s
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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...
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Filmed in slow motion, Tamara Toumanova, wearing a green and black swimsuit, performs a series of leaps and poses on the sand at Bungan Beach. Summary by Poppy de Souza.
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Margaret Macallum visits a quiet stretch of the Anatoki River in Nelson Province, New Zealand, where she feeds the local eels.
The eels come when Margaret taps the water; they allow her to pat and...
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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 Movietone newsreel from 1934 features aerial views of the Snowy Mountains, including a chalet from which members of the Ski Club of Australia are leaving, yodelling as they go.
Close-ups of ski...
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Dressed in Spanish matador costume with flowing crimson and white cape, Con Colleano commences his elaborate Spanish-flavoured circus routine. High upon the tightwire, he dances, bounces, twirls and...