TAGGED: 1950s
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Listen to a Q&A with director Sonia Bible at Arc cinema in 2021, after a screening of her documentary The Witch of Kings Cross.

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Annette Kellerman was 70 years old when this silent home movie footage was filmed.

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This is an excerpt from a mute trailer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Million Dollar Mermaid (Mervyn LeRoy, USA, 1952).

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This tourist promotional film for Melbourne was made as it geared up for the staging of the 1956 Olympic Games.

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'Paris Comes to Sydney: Lavish French Exhibition at Royal Show' shows Australian enthusiasm for all things French at the Royal Easter Show in Sydney in 1956.

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The first aerial fashion show held on a TAA flight between Perth and Sydney.

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The highlight of this newsreel segment about Australian sheep is a model in woollen clothing walking down the catwalk with a huge ram by her side.

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Models show the latest swimming costume fashions at the first annual beach inspectors' dinner in 1955.

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Students from Parramatta Central Home Science High School in Sydney model dresses they have made. The designs are inspired by French fashion.

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'Every girl dreams of a wedding gown ... as every man knows', begins the voice-over in this newsreel segment from 1956.