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Newsreels - Australia Today
Australia Today billed itself as a 'digest of current events’. It was set up in the late 1930s by Rupert Kathner as an alternative news source to established newsreels like Cinesound and Movietone (...
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Australia Today: New clues in the 'Pyjama Girl' mystery
This newsreel reconstructs the coronial inquest into the Pyjama Girl mystery, one of the most baffling unsolved murder cases in Australian criminal history. The clip opens with the discovery of new...
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Australia Today: The 'Pyjama Girl' Murder Case
This 1930s newsreel recounts the coronial inquest into the Pyjama Girl mystery, one of the most baffling unsolved murder cases in Australian criminal history. It reconstructs courtroom scenes and the...
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Australia Today: 'They start life's race with a handicap'
Depicting the family life of a young boy in the poorer suburbs of Sydney, this newsreel touches on society’s responsibility to offer its youth a better future. This clip shows the conditions of those...
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Australia Today: 'Silent terror of the deep'
Shark attacks on populated beaches are statistically not that common in Australia, but they attract sensational media coverage of the type seen in this newsreel. On the sparkling beaches of Australia...
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Australia Today: Shark attack in Georges River
Shark attacks on populated beaches are statistically not that common in Australia, but they attract sensational media coverage of the type seen in this newsreel. This clip shows Beryl Morrin who had...
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Australia Today: Australia’s 5th Column - 'The enemy within'
According to this newsreel, Australia is at war with the '5th Column’, threatened by a ruthless enemy whose objective is the 'downfall of the British Empire’. This clip suggests that Nazi agents...
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Australia Today: Hunting shark
Shark attacks on populated beaches are statistically not that common in Australia, but they attract sensational media coverage of the type seen in this newsreel. This clip shows Coogee Beach,...
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Australia Today: The fatal hour
This clip shows a foreman and his worker ending work early for the day. They rush down to the pub ‘as fast as a radio announcer after English humour magazines on mail day’ to get in before the doors...
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Australia Today: Fangs of death
Fangs of Death enters the dangerous world of venomous snakes. It shows a professional snake handler with brown and tiger snakes; how to milk snakes for serum; and how to treat a snake bite wound with...
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