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A woman in a dress dances to cocktail music as a female voice-over explains the features of the ‘Sarong’ girdle the woman is wearing beneath her clothes. The action freezes as the camera zooms in and...
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A woman dressed in golfing attire practices her golf swing as a female voice-over explains the features of the ‘Sarong’ girdle the woman is wearing beneath her clothes. The action freezes as the...
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Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) and her mother (Kerry Fox) visit Mr and Mrs Dilke (Gerard Monaco, Claudie Blakley). Fanny is frosty toward Charles Brown (Paul Schneider), a poet who rents one half of...
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This clip shows the end of the 1896 Melbourne Cup horse race through the onlooking crowd. Newhaven wins.
Summary by Elizabeth Taggart-Speers
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This Cinesound newsreel from 1960 includes footage taken at the Man from Snowy River Hotel in Perisher Valley, where a small crowd has gathered to watch a spring fashion parade.
Models walk through...
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This clip from The Mike Walsh Show in 1985 takes a look at the various incarnations of Dame Edna Everage over time.
Often appearing on the show to promote a new tour, here she appears after Another...
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Dame Edna speaks to Mike Walsh from London, showing him and the viewers her Sydney Opera House and Queensland pineapple-inspired spectacles for her upcoming tour of Australia.
Everage's love of...
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Fashionable garments are modelled displaying a range of designers clothes include a dress by couturier Melnotte Simonin; a hand-embroidered coat with fur trim by designer Jacques Heim, a painted...
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Two women dressed in dark underwear, silk stockings and shoes model two styles of Berlei corsetry. They stand on raised platforms in front of a plain backdrop, the larger space of the studio visible...
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In the closing minutes of this advertisement, mannequins and live models appear in Berlei’s figure-hugging foundation garments, the ‘basis for all frocking’. After an elaborate pyramid display of...