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100 Years of Ginger Meggs

Ginger Meggs, Australia’s longest-running comic strip character, has chalked up a century. The NFSA marks the milestone with newly digitised footage of Ginger and his creator James Charles Bancks.

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A Message From Meggsie: Road Safety for Kids

This 1947 film features the character Ginger Meggs, who spreads a message, via his comics, of vehicle safety and traffic safety.

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Ace of Spades: Harry Hopman

The Australian Commonwealth Film Unit made several short public service films using sporting stars to promote road safety.

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Learning to Drive

These road safety films from the 1950s to 1980s offer a full tank of vintage car delight.

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Sharing Roads Safely: Skills Of Defensive Driving Episode 8

'The victims of motor car accidents are very often pedestrians. Sometimes they can be unpredictable but often they are innocent victims'. 

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Drinking.. Driving.. Surviving

Controlled driver experiments where subjects with a blood alcohol reading of 0.08 drive cars and they measure their reaction times, feature in this educational film.

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Out Of Control

This dramatised film features Noah Taylor in one of his first screen roles.

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Freeway Driving: Skills Of Defensive Driving Episode 9

'Freeways are designed for fast and safe motoring.

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The Eyes Have It

This advertisement for road safety begins with a cricket match.

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Moving Off On Hills, Reversing And Parking: How To Drive Episode 5

Once you have a sound knowledge of driving fundamentals: checking, starting, stopping, steering, gear changing and braking, with practice these things become almost automatic.