TAGGED: 1940s
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Four boxed images of the characters are represented on the far left, title in the centre. Image of galloping horses and man on horseback at the top and a woman and man embracing below.

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 Blue and white text only. Header reads: 'Your passport to a great adventure'. Includes list of main cast.

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Italian daybill for Sons of Matthew ('Terra di Giganti'). Image in the foreground is of a woman in a red shirt tending an injured man with another man in a green shirt looking on.

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Cream border, title in yellow and red text in top right corner.

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Full colour Australian poster for Sons of Matthew showing Michael Pate lying injured on the ground with Thelma Scott bent over him. A male stands looking over both.

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What was Australia’s first gold record? You may be surprised to learn that it involved a harmonica and the Three Bears.

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This excerpt from Swanston St Shamble is among the first jazz recording of Graeme Bell’s Dixieland Band, from a session in January 1944.

Summary by Ian Gilmour

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Faith Bandler, an Indigenous woman, tells of her experience of the Women’s Land Army. Summary by Susan Lambert.

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Two women describe the hard physical work of the Women’s Land Army and express their pride in their achievements. Black-and-white stills and colour footage show the women at work.

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Various media from 1942 – posters, newsreels and promotional films – show the recruiting campaign for the Women’s Land Army. In interview, Tige Hunter explains why she joined up.