TAGGED: 1950s
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At Eventide, the government-run home for the aged and infirm, a Brisbane City Mission welfare officer pays a visit to those within the ground’s hospital wards.

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The boys at Westbrook Farm Home for Boys in Queensland’s southeast sleep in open wards.

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Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit Brisbane in 1954, just two years after Elizabeth became Queen of England and the Commonwealth.

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In the third of a five-part series, Dr Jeannine Baker celebrates some of the female producers and directors working in Australian television in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

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Gwen Plumb, Alistair Duncan, John Meillon, Tom Farley and Nellie Lampore in A Tongue of Silver, from ATN7/GTV9 anthology Shell Presents

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As one half of the 'Leyland Brothers’, Mike Leyland traveled through the Australian outback when it was still something of a remote frontier and largely unknown to most Australians living in urban

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Bruce Beresford is one of Australia’s most successful and internationally recognised film directors. But at 16 years of age Bruce was only just discovering what he could do with a movie camera.

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This is a complete and publicly unseen 1953 game show pilot episode hosted by Jack Davey, Australia’s biggest radio star of the era, with strong claims to being Australia’s very first television ga

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For World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2021, the NFSA is sharing a publicly unseen 1953 game show pilot hosted by radio star Jack Davey.

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For World Home Movie Day 2021, curator Heather Gill highlights the work of Australia's amateur cine societies.