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Federal Capital Commission: Anti-Fly Campaign (c.1928)

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The fly trap

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Clip description

On the grounds of the forestry school in Canberra, a man empties a week’s worth of dead blowflies from a fly trap onto a sheet of newspaper for disposal. In a garden in Duntroon, a man demonstrates for the camera how to prepare, set and place the trap.