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What did Australians watch at their local cinema during the First World War?
During the 1910s huge picture palaces flourished across the country and going to the pictures was a big social event....
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CineCity Canberra: 1913–2013 is a free exhibition highlighting the diversity of the enduring connection between Canberra and its residents with film through stills, photographs, posters and the...
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Children with their dogs gather outside the Orpheum Theatre in North Sydney and the nearby Cremorne Orpheum on Military Road, Cremorne in Sydney.
The dog show was part of a promotion for the short...
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In a burst of colour, eight children of various ages happily stream out of a suburban house and pile (miraculously) into a car waiting outside. The film then cuts to the children getting out of the...
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A short film segment with intertitles highlighting the benefits of the newly rebuilt North Sydney Orpheum Theatre.
Notable features include a lounge, cloakroom and – more unusually – hat clips on the...
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This short piece of actuality footage shows people at St Kilda including at the entrance to Luna Park, Daylight Pictures Cinema and a jetty at the beach. Summary by Elizabeth Taggart-Speers
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This clip looks at the closure of Canberra’s independent Electric Shadows art-house cinema in December 2006. Dr Paolo Cherchi Usai, former head of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia,...
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Crowds line the footpath of the Grand Cinema in Footscray. A bicycle’s sign advertises a children’s talent quest grand final. Jack Perry (Zig) and Doug McKenzie (Zag) perform their Zig and Zag clown...
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This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1920 shows injured soldiers from Caulfield Military Hospital attending a special matinee screening of a film, arranged by the...
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An edition of the nightly 15-minute TEN-10 current affairs programTelescope, featuring a story on the last days of the Prince Edward Theatre in Castlereagh Street, Sydney CBD.
Footage includes ...