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A Thriving and Prosperous Suburb: Bird’s Eye View of Footscray (c.1911)

This informal snapshot of daily life in 1910 is a rare record of working people in early 20th-century Melbourne.

Length: 9 minutes

Original aspect ratio: 1.33:1 (Academy full frame)

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National Film and Sound Archive

NFSA title number: 8633

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