TAGGED: 1950s
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We mark World Day for Audiovisual Heritage and Home Movie Day with footage of Australia's top overseas travel destinations.

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The NFSA has completed a digital restoration of Celia (1989), the debut feature from Ann Turner.

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Before our feeds were flooded with palm trees and pool-sides, a small band of amateur filmma

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The opening sequence and intertitles suggest this film was intended for family and friends to enjoy at a home movie night.

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Exploring the North Island of New Zealand, this footage focuses on Whakarewarewa – the living Maori village and the geothermal attractions of Te Puia, Rotorua.

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The poultry farm at Werribee is the largest in the Southern hemisphere.

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It was 70 years ago – on 10 September 1950 – that the 23-year-old Joan Sutherland won a major singing competition that helped set her on the road to international stardom.

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Recording of Joan Sutherland performing ‘Dich teure Halle’ (Dear hall of song) from Act II of Wagner’s 1845 opera, Tannhäuser as the winner of the 1950 Mobil Quest.

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Joan Sutherland performing ‘Devotion (Widmung)', composed in 1840 by Robert Schumann, at the 1950 Mobil Quest singing contest.

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Harold Blair sings 'Maranoa Lullaby’ on an unreleased recording from 1950.

Summary by Brenda Gifford