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Australasian Gazette – Goodbye Sunny New South Wales (c.1917)

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Goodbye sunny New South Wales

Original classification rating: G. This clip chosen to be PG

Clip description

Soldiers are despatched to the front during the First World War in a public parade in Sydney to encourage recruitment.

Curator’s notes

by Elizabeth Taggart-Speers

This Australasian Gazette newsreel uses an intertitle to introduce the story and a wide shot to capture the parade.

Apart from encouraging recruitment, the parade also aimed to increase awareness of Australia’s contribution to the First World War (also known as the Great War), which ended in 1918.