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Living in the Walter Taylor Bridge
Australian Diary 77: New Australians Live in Unusual Home is a short program from the Film Australia Library. Bridge toll-keeper George MacDougall and his wife Elaine live inside one of the two...
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Rocking The Foundations: NFSA Digital Restoration
This clip is from the NFSA Restores digital restoration of Rocking the Foundations (Pat Fiske, Australia, 1985). You can rent the full film from the Ronin Films website. Sydney, Australia, is...
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Mining Boom
Mining Boom is an animated workplace comedy aimed at adults. It follows an eclectic team of FIFOs (Fly-In-Fly-Out temporary workers) as they slip up, cover up and shortcut their way through remote...
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Rocking the Foundations: Construction
This sequence describes the impact of the 1960s development of the Sydney skyline on the work of labourers building its new skyscrapers. Summary by Susan Lambert.
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Rocking the Foundations: A Sydney story
Sydney, Australia, is established as the location of the film and the narration introduces the film’s premise and establishes the filmmaker as the story-teller. Summary by Susan Lambert.
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Rocking the Foundations: The bulldozer
This powerful sequence shows the violent clashes between the government and developers planning Sydney’s large-scale re-development and those that opposed it – the unionists, residents,...
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Black Harvest: Realities
At a meeting of the Ganiga tribe, Joe and his ally, tribal elder Popina Mai, speak about the plan for Ganiga to work on the plantation. The coffee prices are falling and Joe Leahy needs their help....
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Buckley Family Collection: Asian village and street scenes
This clip shows elephants carrying goods on their backs in South-East Asia; village huts by a river, filmed from onboard a boat; and street scenes in a larger city. Summary by Poppy De Souza.
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Buckley Family Collection: Tarn Shan Tin Mine
This clip begins with a sign which says 'Tarn Shan Tin Mine’. The camera pans across the mountainside, showing a man pulling a bucket from a well, local workers standing on large wooden barrels and...
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Australasian Gazette: The Strike Spreads
This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel shows waterside workers unloading perishables from a ship, possibly part of the New South Wales General Strike of 1917. Summary by Elizabeth Taggart...
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The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.

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