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This silent clip begins with a title card announcing that the Wintergarden Theatre is the 'first theatre in the world to present a completely new invention in Talking Picture Equipment’.

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The North Sydney Orpheum Theatre is demolished in 1962 to make way for the construction of the Warringah Expressway. A map illustrates the first section of the planned route from the Sydn

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Close up of a model set of buildings created for the set of post-apocalyptic Sydney in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (George Miller and George Ogilvie, Australia, 1985).

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'Rothesay House' appeared in the McDonagh sisters' first feature film, Those Who Love (1926).

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A recently donated film reveals the only known colour footage of Sir Donald Bradman playing cricket.

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This news item concerns the mysterious deaths of Dr Gilbert Bogle and Mrs Margaret Chandler on the banks of the Lane Cove River in Sydney on 1 January 1963.

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This Cinesound newsreel clip shows guests in fancy dress arriving for the 1964 Annual Movie Ball at the Trocadero in Sydney.

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The NFSA celebrates Valentine's Day with recently restored footage of a unique wedding ceremony in the skies over Sydney in 1932.

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A view from the plane looking across to two bi-planes. Bride and groom getting married, the kiss, looking out from the plane and then landing to be greeted by a large crowd.