TAGGED: 1950s
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The film crew on the set of Jedda (1955) wrangle a crocodile.

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Ngarla Kunoth (Jedda) and Betty Suttor (Sarah) on set with Charles Chauvel and camera crew filming a scene from Jedda

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Portrait of Ngarla Kunoth in Jedda.

Kindly donated by Beth Gower in memory of Harry Closter.

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Johnny O’Keefe initially saw television as just another gig, but soon realised the power of the medium to reach and build a national audience.

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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.