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We take a peek at the sugar-laden world of children's parties, with films dating from the 1920s to 1950s.
The films, many of them family home movies, feature ingredients we all recognise: cakes, ...
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This episode of Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey includes an overview of Sydney’s ‘high life’ down through the decades from the Lord Mayor’s 1844 Fancy Dress Ball to dancing at the Trocadero and...
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This final episode of Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey takes a look at colloquial expressions, folklore and other nonsense relating to Sydneysiders and the Emerald City.
Sydney abounds with curious...
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Amateur cinematographer George Browne shot this silent home movie at the opening of the Sydney Opera House on 20 October 1973.
The NFSA collects home movies to show a broader range of lived...
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Queen Elizabeth II officially opens the Sydney Opera House at Bennelong Point on 20 October 1973. This excerpt from the documentary Queen at the Opera House shows the one-million strong crowd, a...
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This clip begins with a family of four – Mrs and Mr Albion with their two children Douglas and Wally – posing for a family portrait and is followed by a close-up of the youngest child, Douglas. The...
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Children perform dances at a garden party while adults look on. This includes children performing ballet and three children dressed in Japanese kimonos. The camera pans across the garden to film...
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The Gerakiteys family celebrate their daughters’ birthday in their family garden. Their younger son watches on as the girls sit with their birthday cakes. Other family members are shown and the whole...
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This clip includes five-year-old Wally being picked up and hugged by his parents; an older man dressed as Santa Claus; children on a seesaw and playing ring-a-rosie; Wally being pushed on a swing by...
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Adults and children hold hands and form a large circle in the back garden to play the children’s games 'ring-a-ring-a-rosie’ and ‘oranges and lemons’ as children pass underneath the arms of the two...