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TAGGED: 1970s
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Santa Never Made it to Darwin by Bill and Boyd

News bulletins interrupted normal television and radio programming on Christmas Eve to break the news of Cyclone Tracy.

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John McCallum: oral history

John McCallum talks about the beginnings of Fauna Productions and the success of Skippy.

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Alvin Purple by Brian Cadd
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Sunday Too Far Away: 'Ducks on the pond'

The NFSA has completed a digital restoration of Sunday Too Far Away, starring Jack Thompson.

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Sunday Too Far Away: 'The welcoming committee'

The NFSA has completed a digital restoration of Sunday Too Far Away, starring Jack Thompson.

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Canadian geologist in Australian government documentary

Dr Charles Gower was delighted to watch himself in a government documentary, 45 years after it was filmed.

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Girls in Our Town by Margret RoadKnight

Released as a single in January 1976, Margret RoadKnight’s version of Bob Hudson’s ‘Girls in Our Town’ reached the Top 20 of the Kent Music Report Singles Chart.

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Sydney Opera House Opening – news, photographs, home movie

Photographs, news and home movie footage capture the excitement of the opening of the Sydney Opera House on 20 October 1973.

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The Fifth Facade: Sydney Harbour boats

Sydney Harbour and the Opera House on 20 October 1973.

A still from the documentary production The Fifth Facade, about the opening of the Sydney Opera House. 

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Opera House Opening photographs

A crowd of people gather for the opening of the Sydney Opera House.

View more photographs from the opening in the Sydney Opera House Opening latest post.