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Tagged: home movies

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The 1950s Melbourne art scene
Philippe Mora shares family home movies that feature rare footage of the Melbourne art scene of the 1950s.
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Ernest Singer home movies
In partnership with the St Kilda Film Festival, the NFSA presents six of Ernest Singer’s 16mm home movies from the 1950s, projected on the big screen for the very first time.
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Trains in The Hunter
We have more steam, and more trains, in a new mini-documentary about the NSW Hunter region's railway past.
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Vaudeville friends
Tara Marynowsky explores the home movies of vaudeville performer and amateur filmmaker Frank 'Tex' Glanville.
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RMS Queen Mary in Sydney
In early 1940, with Australia less than a year into World War 2, a 17-year-old George Shirley used his father’s 16 mm movie camera to film two grand visitors to Sydney Harbour.
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Australian Childhood
Dr Gwenda Davey, a research fellow at the NFSA in 2011, offers a valuable commentary on a neglected dimension of Australia’s social history.
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Cigars, para-sports and a love story
An Adelaide dentist and amateur filmmaker has donated almost 10 hours of footage which helps chronicle the Australian and international Paralympic movement in the 1970s and 80s.
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Queen Elizabeth opens Victorian Parliament (1954)
Sir Robert Menzies' home movie collection includes this footage of the Royal tour in 1954. It shows the arrival of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, by car outside the...
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The last trams in Brisbane, 1969
The Brisbane tramway network served the city between 1885 and 1969. The music accompanying the archival footage of the 199-kilometre tram network and its routes is an attempt to evoke a wistful sense...
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Peace in Brisbane after the Second World War
Amateur filmmaker Neville Govett talks about his footage of Brisbane at the end of the Second World War in September 1945. It is powerful to hear him narrating the silent colour footage of crowds...
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