TAGGED: 1930s
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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.

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The NFSA celebrates Valentine's Day with recently restored footage of a unique wedding ceremony in the skies over Sydney in 1932.

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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.

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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.

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For thousands of Australian women and girls, cricket is not just a sport for the boys, but a way of life.

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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

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This rare footage from 1939 shows the

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Double sided aluminium record with a personal message on one side and an advertising message for Harrods Department store on the other side.

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This is an excerpt from the Rural Bank of NSW’s Agricultural Magazine of the Air , which ran on 17 New South Wales commercial stations in 1939 and was still on air in the 1950s.

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Each episode looks at the history of a different region of NSW.