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Tagged: newsreels

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Brisbane Time Capsule
Sunny, vibrant Brisbane is the capital of Queensland and Australia's third largest city. Set on the Brisbane River (Maiwar) the city of Brisbane (Meanjin/Mianjin) is on Yuggera Country (also written...
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From Wireless Radio to the Web
The greatest technological advances of the 20th century were arguably about the broadcasting of messages. Technology has moved from cinema newsreels to radio (originally called 'the wireless') to...
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Famous Australian Tennis Players
Enjoy a selection of clips featuring some of Australia's greatest tennis champions. Our tennis players dominated the world rankings, particularly from the 1950s to the 70s, which commentators look...
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Australian Vintage Cinemas and Theatres
This collection about Australian picture palaces is dedicated to the enduring pleasures of cinemagoing. At the time of writing, the COVID-19 pandemic has recently closed cinemas across Australia but...
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Newsreels - Cinesound Movietone
The Cinesound Movietone Australian Newsreel Collection held at the NFSA comprises 4,000 newsreels from 1929 to 1975. It includes two competing cinema newsreels, Cinesound Review (1931–1970, 2,031...
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Newsreels - Australia Today
Australia Today billed itself as a 'digest of current events’. It was set up in the late 1930s by Rupert Kathner as an alternative news source to established newsreels like Cinesound and Movietone (...
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Australia's first Oscar
The first Academy Award ever won by an Australian is in the NFSA collection.
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50 delightful surprises from the NFSA collection
Fifty surprising, heartwarming and weirdly wonderful items from the NFSA collection.
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AFL, 1933: Wave the two flags!
Footage of a 1933 AFL face-off between Victorian and South Australian teams gives us rare glimpses of two goal-kicking legends.
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Cinesound's Sydney Harbour Bridge scoop
The Sydney Harbour Bridge opened 85 years ago and Cinesound Productions' newsreel secured the scoop of a lifetime.
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