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Val Sarah Oral History Interview, 2019

This is an excerpt from an interview with Australian television pioneer Val Sarah. Sarah was interviewed by Jeannine Baker in 2019.

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Val Sarah Oral History, 2019 - clip 2

This is an excerpt from an oral history interview with Val Sarah by Jeannine Baker in 2019.

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Outlook: Autumn of a Mining Town

This film made by The Commonwealth Film Unit in 1972, produced with a sombre musical score and without narration, is an evocative mood piece showing Ballarat as the picture of a quiet, rural town.

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Ballarat Patriotic Day Carnival

This is an excerpt from an NFSA product called, Living Ballarat: 1901-1941 (1990).  This clip shows the Ballarat Patriotic Day Carnival on 11 July 1941 to raise funds for British bombing v

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The Ballarat Centenary Floral Festival

In March 1938, Ballarat was in the full grip of floral fever.

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Provincial Cities of Australia: Ballarat

The documentary opens with a shot of the Victory Arch spanning the Avenue of Honour which is a memorial to men who fought in WWI.

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In and Around Ballarat

In June 1927 Bert Ive produced the best surviving Ballarat documentary of the silent era.

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Ballarat the Fair - Robert Nicholson

Baritone Robert Nicholson recorded several songs with a Victorian connection.

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Australia by Song

Is Canberra calling to you? And why is it hot in Brisbane but Coolangatta?

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Film still - The Loyal Rebel

The Loyal Rebel, 1915, was written by Authur Wright, directed by Alfred Rolfe and starred Reynolds Denniston and Maisie Carte. .