TAGGED: 1970s
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Love is a Beatutiful Song was the 1977 album recorded by Malaysian-born Australian entertainer Kamahl, one of the true legends of the local entertainment industry.

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This Astral TI Super 8 instant load camera is a cute point-and-shoot camera – nothing too fancy except for the wood laminate on its case. Inside the camera is an original Super 8mm film cartridge.

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This extremely rare, layered collage graphic poster with boxing kangaroos in each corner features guitarist Angus Young cutting loose at age 20 in 1975, the same year that AC/DC’s rough and tough a

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In 1963, the introduction of Kodak Instamatic cameras and cartridge-loading film made the domestic moviemaking process easier and more accessible.

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We love this packaging for the Sankyo XL-60S, as it documents a typical evening at home in the 1970s: brown corduroy, pavlova and of course an impromptu piano accordion recital.

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AC/DC lead guitarist Angus Young’s schoolboy costume is one of the most iconic looks in rock music, and was completed by his felt ‘A’ schoolboy cap. 

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This daybill poster for the oceangoing documentary Blue Water, White Death (directed by Peter Gimbel and James Lipscomb, 1971) was a promotional tool to draw audiences to the cine

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This Dot and the Kangaroo badge from 1977 would have been proudly worn by young fans. The production of a range of merchandise suggests how popular the animated children's film was.

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Enjoy Living Through Yoga is a book by Swami Sarasvati published in 1975.

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Garry McDonald as TV host Norman Gunston was both sublime and absurd, as evidenced in this comical still from 1979 in which he wears a formal top half (shirt and tie) and bush-trekking bottom