Titles tagged with ‘1890s’
11 titles - sorted alphabetically or by year
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All the Rivers Run television program – 1983
This program won a swag of awards and has arguably been watched by more people, more often, than any other Australian mini-series of the prolific ’80s.
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Boer War: Transvaal Contingent, Queen Street, Brisbane, 1899 historical – 1899
Using a hand-cranked Lumiere Cinematographe, photographer Frederick Charles Wills captured the Queensland contingents departing for the Boer War.
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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith feature film – 1978
This is one of the key Australian films of the 1970s, because it speaks about the unspeakable with a depth of rage that was absolutely unprecedented and has never been repeated.
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Fanny Cochrane Smith’s Tasmanian Aboriginal Songs music – 1903
These are the first and last recordings of Tasmanian Aboriginal songs and language.
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The Hen Convention music – 1897
The oldest surviving Australian sound recording is a novelty song featuring chicken impersonations.
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Jack Luscombe music – 1953
An oral history containing the first recorded collection of Australian folk song.
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Le Patineur Grotesque historical – 1896
This footage of a man performing on rollerskates for a crowd in a Melbourne park is thought to be Australia’s earliest surviving film.
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Scenes of Queen Street and Victoria Bridge, Brisbane, 1899 historical – 1899
Using an original Lumière Cinematographe, Frederick Charles Wills and his assistant, Henry William Mobsby capture a busy Brisbane intersection in 1899.
South Sea Islanders Cutting Cane, 1899: Nambour, Qld historical – 1899
Photographer Frederick Charles Wills and his assistant, Henry William Mobsby capture Melanesian labourers cutting cane in Queensland in 1899.
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Torres Strait Islanders historical – 1898
A national treasure: the oldest film made of Torres Strait Islanders and of Aboriginal people. This film deserves national and international cultural icon status.
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Wheat Harvesting with Reaper and Binder at Jimbour, Qld historical – 1899
The official photographer of the Queensland Department of Agriculture, Frederick Charles Wills, films a farmer and his wheat harvest on a property in Jimbour.
