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Australasian Gazette – Conversion (c1920)

This Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1920 shows the commencement of work at Victoria Parade for the electrification of the cable tram system of Collins Street, Melbourne, and informs us of the opposition to it. [read more]

Australasian Gazette – Test Cricketers (c1926)

This newsreel from about 1926 shows the Australian cricket team while on tour in England. It features MA Noble, Clem Hill, Arthur Mailey, Warren Bardsley, WM Woodfull and the English cricketer Jack Hobbs. Filmed at Headingley Oval, England it shows ... [read more]

Sydney Tramways (c1928)

This silent black-and-white footage shows how the tram system in Sydney handles large crowds. It features various sporting and leisure events including the Sydney Cup at Randwick Racecourse, the Royal Agricultural Show at the Sydney Showground and a rugby match ... [read more]

Darnley Islanders Pay Tribute (1899)

The film shows the people of Darnley Island greeting Queensland’s Home Secretary, the Hon. Justin FG Foxton, and his wife Emily and giving them gifts of fruit from the island. [read more]

Australasian Gazette – Maoris Give Their War Cry (c1922)

This newsreel from about 1922 shows a Maori rugby league team doing a haka war dance before a football match. The New South Wales team poses for the camera and a match is captured in progress. [read more]

Australasian Gazette – Clive Barass, Australian Champion and Leader of the Troupe (c1926)

This newsreel shows Australian champion diver Clive Barass and his diving troupe performing individual and group dives at Clifton Gardens Baths near Mosman, Sydney. It is black-and-white and silent. [read more]

Australasian Gazette – HMAS Brisbane Launched at Cockatoo Island (1915)

This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel shows the launch of the HMAS Brisbane naval ship by Mrs Fisher, wife of the then Prime Minister Andrew Fisher, on 30 September 1915, from the dockyard of Cockatoo Island. [read more]

Imperial Tractors: Western Australian Farmers Support an Australian Industry (1937)

This silent black-and-white Imperial Tractors cinema advertisement shows tractor stock at the AH McDonald and Co warehouse and tractors being loaded onto a cargo train for delivery to regional areas. [read more]

Kiddies of Queensland Enjoy Outings in their Billy Carts: Rockhampton (c1920)

This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel item shows a group of boys riding on the back of goats and children riding in billycarts down a street in Rockhampton, Queensland. [read more]

Wirth’s Circus Film (c1925)

This silent actuality footage shows circus proprietor and ringmaster Philip Wirth and his trick pony, Earl Dudley, as it performs a range of tricks in an outdoor arena. The final segment of this footage shows elephants and circus workers setting ... [read more]

Homes for Crippled Children (c1940)

Produced by Reverend RW Dobbinson, this silent film surveys convalescent homes and caring facilities for children with polio and other crippling diseases. It shows a number of homes and facilities across the country including the children’s ward of the Brisbane ... [read more]

Number 96 – Episodes 1003 and 1004 (1976)

These episodes are from the show’s later period when it was trying to woo back viewers with another (politically incorrect) creepy visitor storyline: after the Knicker Snipper and the Pantyhose Strangler, along came the Hooded Rapist. These episodes also boast ... [read more]

Government Party Boards SS Lucinda (1899)

This actuality footage was shot in 1899 by Frederick Charles Wills, the official photographer of the Queensland Department of Agriculture. It shows Queensland politicians boarding the paddle steamer Lucinda, moored at a wharf on the Brisbane River. The parliamentarians board ... [read more]

The Digger Carries On: Repatriation Illustrated (1919)

This public information film from 1919 shows the facilities for injured and psychologically affected returned servicemen from the First World War and the various vocational training schemes available. [read more]

CE Miller & Co Cinema Advertisement: Know Your Melbourne (c1945)

This colour cinema advertisement from around 1945 is for CE Miller and Company, a removal and storage business based in Melbourne and shows off Melbourne city and suburbs of the mid 1940s. [read more]

Nestle’s MILO Cinema Advertisement: The Joy of Living (1948)

This cinema advertisement for MILO shows how to get a good night’s rest and plenty of energy for the morning – just drink a cup of MILO before bedtime! [read more]

Murray-Will, Ewan: Ballets Russes: Petrouchka: Carnaval: Aurora’s Wedding (c1936)

This silent footage, filmed by Ewan Murray-Will, shows the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo performing scenes from Petrouchka, Carnaval, and Aurora’s Wedding during their 1936–37 tour of Australia. [read more]

St Kilda Esplanade 1914 (1914)

This short piece of actuality footage shows people at St Kilda in 1914, including at the entrance to Luna Park, Daylight Pictures Cinema and a jetty at the beach. [read more]

Christmas Hustle and Bustle: Crowds Leave for Well-deserved Holiday on 22 December (1928)

This item from a silent newsreel shows Melburnians during the Christmas season of 1928, including Christmas shoppers crossing Swanston Street in the pouring rain and two swagmen drinking in a Melbourne park. The newsreel contains intertitles. [read more]

Sugar Mills, Nambour (1899)

This actuality footage shows a horse-drawn tramway of cane arriving at a conveyor belt at a sugar mill in Nambour, Queensland. The cane is trimmed and carried by conveyor belt into the mill for crushing. [read more]

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