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Tagged: 1930s
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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.
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This clip captures images of the Tasmanian tiger, alone in its enclosure at Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart. The thylacine is shown in close-up investigating the camera, pacing up and down its small cage,...
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A ballroom scene required for the film brought a a touch of style into the production. A number of high Sydney socialites were given roles as extras for the day's filming which must have been unusual...
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The Flying Doctor is a 1936 Australian-British drama film directed by Miles Mander and starring Charles Farrell, Mary Maguire and James Raglan.