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Tagged: newsreels

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Australia Today: Fangs of death
Fangs of Death enters the dangerous world of venomous snakes. It shows a professional snake handler with brown and tiger snakes; how to milk snakes for serum; and how to treat a snake bite wound with...
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Australia Today: Lucky strike at Larkinville
Western Australia, 1932. Two gold prospectors – Jimmy Eastwood and Jack Hogan – along with their dog, Spot, strike gold at Larkinville. For Spot, this is more a ‘comedy of fleas than a saga of riches...
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Australia Today: Fort Denison - A well-made fort
This newsreel looks nostalgically at the history of Fort Denison, a fortified island in Sydney Harbour, and its place in Sydney’s military and cultural heritage. This clip illustrates examples the...
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Australia Today: Fort Denison - Early history
This newsreel looks nostalgically at the history of Fort Denison, a fortified island in Sydney Harbour, and its place in Sydney’s military and cultural heritage. This clip covers the early history of...
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Australia Today – Australia’s 5th Column: Hitler's fifth columnists (1941)
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 opens with type scrolling over...
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Australia Today: Police Boys' Club
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. A young boy is taken to the Police Boys...
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Australasian Gazette: 1924 Melbourne Cup
This newsreel features highlights of the 1924 Melbourne Cup, including the horses entering the racetrack, crowds in the grandstand and the race, won by Backwood.
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Australasian Gazette: 70,000 Pounds Production Nears Completion
This newsreel clip from 1926 shows a scene from the film For the Term of His Natural Life in production at the Australasian Films’ Bondi studio, Sydney NSW. A cameraman on a moving platform, or dolly...
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Operation Newsreel: Saving Australia's early filmed news
A news story from 1989, when the NFSA launched Operation Newsreel to preserve, restore, catalogue and copy the Cinesound Movietone Australian Newsreel Collection (1929 to 1975). Operation Newsreel...
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Newsfront: NFSA Digital Restoration
The NFSA has completed a digitial restoration of Newsfront (1978). In Australia in the late 1940s, before the coming of television, Len Maguire (Bill Hunter) and his young sidekick Chris (Chris...
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