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This National Film Board episode of Australian Diary was made not long after Australia regained the Davis Cup in 1950.
At that time the team played with Australian-made tennis racquets, which were...
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A pan of the sorting rooms shows women sorting the cleansed chocolate in preparation for blending. The kernels are then taken to the mills where they are ground into a smooth liquor. Sugar is added...
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A family sits around the breakfast table after son Ted has finished his night shift at the munitions factory. His mother tells him how proud she is of both her sons – one in the armed forces fighting...
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A man is ready to leave for his night shift at the munitions factory when his young daughter, Topsy, runs up to him. Her mother has said that he works 'awful hard making bombs’ so that the Germans...
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Shipbuilders work at the Whyalla shipyards for Australia’s war effort. A woman shakes out a broom over a veranda with the ship visible to the left. Men walk through the streets to or from work. A...
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The bus-rail hybrid was designed to service minor rail lines in Sydney that did not have enough passengers to justify the larger rail motor.
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A group of men stand in front of the body of a newly constructed single-decker bus. The bus is pulled along the street by a small tractor while two men walk beside it. The next sequence shows another...
