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In this newsreel excerpt, Annette Kellerman is training her troupe of performers in Sydney for a 'musical marine fantasy' hospital benefit – complete with piano accordion accompaniment.
Almost 20...
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This Movietone News special edition newsreel marks the nationwide celebrations at the end of the Second World War.
This clip is from the opening sequence for the Australian edition of Fox Movietone...
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This Movietone News special edition newsreel marks the nationwide celebrations at the end of the Second World War.
This clip shows joyous celebrations erupting in Sydney streets at the declaration of...
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Depicting the family life of a young boy in the poorer suburbs of Sydney, this newsreel touches on society’s responsibility to offer its youth a better future.
This clip shows the conditions of those...
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Shark attacks on populated beaches are statistically not that common in Australia, but they attract sensational media coverage of the type seen in this newsreel.
On the sparkling beaches of Australia...
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Shark attacks on populated beaches are statistically not that common in Australia, but they attract sensational media coverage of the type seen in this newsreel.
This clip shows Beryl Morrin who had...
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According to this newsreel, Australia is at war with the '5th Column’, threatened by a ruthless enemy whose objective is the 'downfall of the British Empire’.
This clip suggests that Nazi agents...
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Phar Lap's incredible win at the Melbourne Cup in 1930 made him an Australian icon. One cable from successful punters East of Perth summed up the national feeling well: 'If you could only stand on...
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The title of this Australasian Gazette newsreel, 'Defying Death', indicates just how life-threatening parachuting was in the 1920s. Mr Albert E Eastwood ‘performs a sensational drop from an airplane...
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The first Australian public viewing of Blue Poles (Number 11, 1952) by American abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock at the Art Gallery of NSW (AGNSW), 1974. The painting was purchased by...