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Tagged: 1930s

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Ballet Russes in Australia: Tamara Toumanova (c.1939)
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. See more incredible footage...
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Strange hobby of eel taming
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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Annette Kellerman's underwater ballet
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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Movietone News: Skiing
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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Colleano on Tightwire, Rehearses in Arena: The Wizard of the Wire
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...
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Tasmanian Tiger: Last Footage of a Thylacine
Located within a forgotten travelogue, Tasmania the Wonderland (1935), this recently digitised footage represents the preservation of the last-known surviving moving images of the now extinct...
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Anzac Day March, 1933: Home Movie
This is a clip of an Anzac Day march in 1933 at Strathalbyn, South Australia. It is taken from a home movie shot by K Loader. The march comes down from Alfred Place, the site of the Strathalbyn and...
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Regent Theatre, Sydney: In Old Chicago Premiere
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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Orpheum Theatre Dog Shows, Sydney
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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The Trail of the ‘Roo: Kangaroo hunt
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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