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Clip description
This ANZAC Day cinema advertisement from approximately 1915 begins with a re-enactment of Australian soldiers in trenches under fire wearing gas masks and ends with an intertitle that says ‘A nation’s manhood is straining at its task of carving ANZAC Day deep-cut in the calendar of time’.
Curator’s notes
This is the complete version of what survives from a silent black and white cinema advertisement. It encourages Australian’s to not only mark ANZAC Day as a day of significance but to 'carve’ its meaning into our nation’s psyche.
There is no production information for this footage but one can assume that it is re-enacted footage. It is filmed on 35 mm nitrate film with a static camera, balanced on a tripod and from the one angle.
