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King Billy’s First Car (1939)

This 1930s animated advertisement contains a disturbing subtext about Indigenous Australians.

Length: 4 minutes 30 seconds

Original aspect ratio: 1.37:1 (Academy)

Featured in the Shell Company of Australia collection

Original classification rating: not rated

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National Film and Sound Archive

NFSA title number: 10998