Filters
Filters (3 applied)
Clear All-
has sound (1)
-
Is a Last Post Film (1)
-
Conflict (7)
-
related units (94)
- HMAS Sydney (1935-1941) (36)
- Transport ships (8)
- HMAS Canberra (1928 - 1942) (5)
- United States Air Force (5)
- United States Navy ships (5)
- 2/1 Australian Hospital Ship Manunda (4)
- Japan (British Commonwealth Occupation Force) (13 February 1946 - 28 April 1952) (4)
- Royal Australian Navy (4)
- United States Army (4)
- German Army (3)
- Royal Australian Air Force (3)
- 6 Australian Division (2)
- 66 Battalion (2)
- Army vessels (2)
- HMAS Melbourne (1955-1982) (2)
- HMAS Voyager (1957-1964) (2)
- Imperial Japanese Army (2)
- Imperial Japanese Navy (2)
- Italian Army (2)
- Japanese submarines (2)
- National Emergency Services (2)
- RAF Coastal Command (2)
- Royal Navy (2)
- Salvage units (2)
- USS Frank E. Evans (1945-1969) (2)
- United States Marine Corps (2)
- United States Navy (2)
- 1 Armoured Division (1)
- 12 Small Ship Company (1)
- 2/13th Australian Infantry Battalion (1)
- 2/14th Field Regiment (1)
- 2/23rd Australian Infantry Battalion (1)
- 2/4 Australian General Hospital (1)
- 25th Australian Infantry Battalion (1)
- 2nd Australian Imperial Force (1)
- 34 Brigade Group (1)
- 4 Australian General Hospital (1)
- 61 Battalion (1)
- 65 Battalion (1)
- 67 Search Light Battery (1)
- 73 Search Light Battery (1)
- AV Clive Steele (1)
- Army vessels, AM series (1)
- Army vessels, AV series (1)
- Australian Comforts Fund (1)
- Bands (1)
- British Army (1)
- Casualty clearing stations (1)
- Coastwatchers (1)
- Fire brigades (1)
- Free French Forces (1)
- French Navy (1)
- Garrison units (1)
- German Air Force (1)
- German navy ships (1)
- German submarines (1)
- Gurkha units (1)
- HMAS Hobart (1938-1955) (1)
- HMAS Kanimbla (I) (1939-1949) (1)
- HMAS Kuttabul (Sydney) (1)
- HMAS Melville (Darwin) (1)
- HMAS Shropshire (1)
- HMAS Stuart (1933-1946) (1)
- HMAS Swan (1937-1962) (1)
- HMAS Sydney (1)
- HMAS Warrnambool (1)
- HMAS Westralia (1989-2006) (1)
- Hospitals (1)
- Indian Army (1)
- Italian Air Force (1)
- Italian navy ships (1)
- Light horse units (1)
- Ministry of Information (UK) (1)
- No. 13 Squadron (1)
- No. 144 Squadron (RAF) (1)
- No. 15 Squadron (RAF) (1)
- No. 24 Squadron (1)
- No. 30 Squadron (1)
- No. 404 Squadron (RCAF) (1)
- No. 453 Squadron (1)
- No. 455 Squadron (1)
- No. 64 Squadron (RAF) (1)
- No. 77 Squadron (1)
- Polish Forces (1)
- Provost units (1)
- RAF Fighter Command (1)
- Royal Air Force (1)
- US 11th Airborne Division (1)
- US 1st Cavalry Division (1)
- USS Peary (1920-1942) (1)
- USS Yorktown (1937-1942) (1)
- Voluntary Aid Detachments (1)
- Water transport units (1)
- Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (1)
-
related places (19)
- Oceania: Pacific Islands, Solomon Islands, Savo Island (2)
- Europe: Czechoslovakia (1)
- Europe: France, Haute-Normandie, Seine Maritime, Dieppe (1)
- Europe: France, Normandy (1)
- Europe: Germany, Berlin (1)
- Europe: Poland (1)
- Europe: Sweden (1)
- Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Cape Helles Area, Sedd-el-Bahr (1)
- Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Sydney (1)
- Oceania: Australia, Northern Territory, Darwin (1)
- Oceania: Australia, Queensland, Brisbane (1)
- Oceania: Australia, Victoria (1)
- Oceania: Australia, Western Australia, Perth (1)
- Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Port Moresby (1)
- Oceania: New Guinea1, Wau Area, Wau (1)
- Oceania: Pacific Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Bismarck Sea (1)
- Oceania: Pacific Islands, Hawaii, Pearl Harbour (1)
- Oceania: Pacific Islands, Midway (1)
- Oceania: Pacific Islands, Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal (1)
-
maker (38)
- HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation (34)
- Mearns, David (34)
- Fox Movietone News (7)
- Cinesound (4)
- O'Brien, John William Alexander (2)
- Parer, Damien Peter (2)
- RAF Film Production Unit (2)
- Wood, Frederick Sydney (2)
- Ada, William Maurice (1)
- Australian Broadcasting Commission (1)
- Bagnall, Frank N (1)
- Carey, Jack (1)
- Cartledge, Ronald Selby (1)
- Channel Ten Sydney (1)
- Freeman, Bruce Irving (1)
- French, George (1)
- GTV Channel 9 (1)
- Hunter, Frank (1)
- Jones, Leonard John (1)
- Keller, Roy (1)
- McGrath, James Joseph (1)
- Military History Section, BCOF (1)
- Monro, Ronald Keith (1)
- NBC (1)
- Nangle, Thomas (1)
- RAAF Historical Records Section Cine Unit SEAC (1)
- Robinson, John (1)
- Russell, Warren Leslie William (1)
- SFU (1)
- Sheldon-Collins, Francis (1)
- Thain, Ernest Robertson (1)
- Tuckerman, Victor Ernest Montague (Monty) (1)
- US Navy (1)
- United States Department of War (1)
- Universum Film AG (1)
- Unknown (1)
- Vansleve, Neal Whitney (1)
- Wheeler, Roy Crawford (1)
Show More
Show More
Show More
Collection
97 Results
-
Aerial bombardment damage in and around Simpson Harbour, Rabaul
Film
Maker: Thain, Ernest Robertson
Damage inflicted by Allied aerial bombing on Japanese planes and shipping on Lakunai Airstrip and Simpson Harbour, Rabaul.F07304
-
1. America comes to Australia 2. Pearl Harbour bombed 3. Allies prepared to fight back from their last strongholds in the Western Pacific. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 15)
Film
Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Vol. 13 No. 15 Fox Movietone News 1. (1 min 48 sec) Arrival of United States troops in Australia. 2. (2 min 39 sec) Scenes of the aftermath of the Japanese attack on the United States Pa...F00338
-
1. Army salvage finds use for discarded uniforms 2. Daring Japanese raiders sunk in Sydney Harbour (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 25)
Film
Maker: Fox Movietone News
1. (1 min 33 sec) NSW Premier's wife joins workers in civilian war emergency clothing scheme making children's suits from damaged khaki 2. (4 min 10 sec) Japanese raid, Sydney Harbour, eye witness sto...F00348
-
Attack
Film
Maker: United States Department of War
The battle for New Britain a United States War Department production photographed by the United States Signal Corps and USAAF. Shows scenes at the 'Overpower' Task Force three staging areas including ...F01928
-
Battle for Tunisia
Film
Title : Battle for Tunisia. This captured German film shows Italian fleet, Japanese submarine crew, and Rommel. Also seen is the landing of British forces and equipment, British convoy, and ships ab...F00815
-
Battle front action from Guadalcanal
Film
United States ships, Henderson Airfield and United States Marines at Guadalcanal. Identified personnel: Lieutenant-General Alexander Vandegrift and Majora-General Vogel.F00819
-
Bismarck convoy smashed!
Film
Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Cinesound Review newsreel of RAAF and USAAF action against the Japanese convoy in the Bismark Sea on 2 and 3 March 1943 resulting in the loss of twenty two ships and fiftheen thousand Japanese troops....F01442
-
[Bombing of Darwin 19 February 1942]
Film
Maker: Wheeler, Roy Crawford
The story begins with the 2/1 Hospital Ship Manunda leaving Sydney in January 1942 to go to Darwin and then to Singapore to evacuate any wounded. The film shows the journey through the Whitsunday Pass...F04605
-
1. Canberra survivors 2. An Aussie joins the American Army 3. The carrier pigeon goes to war. (Cinesound News No. 565)
Film
Maker: Cinesound
1. (2 min 27 sec) Interviews with some of the survivors of HMAS "Canberra" on return to their homes. 2. (2 min 15 sec) An Aussie dog joins the Yanks as mascot and goes to town on leave. 3. (3 min 57 s...F00591
-
Captain Stevenson resigns: Melbourne-Evans collision
Film
Maker: GTV Channel 9
A kinescope recording on 16mm film of a GTV9 report on the announcement of the resignation of Captain John Philip Stevenson. Captain Stevenson was the commanding officer of HMAS Melbourne during the M...F03050
-
1. Chips off the Anzac block 2. Sinking of 'Yorktown' (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 41)
Film
Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 41. 1. (2 min) Two thousand Victorian boy cadets learn from AIF instructors 2. (1 min 20 sec) Sinking of United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Yorktown ...F00363
-
Convoy escort
Film
An RAAF production showing liaison between RAAF and RAN for convoy escort. A naval Lieutenant-Commander and an airforce Squadron Leader lecture on RAN methods and problems. Animated models are used to...F02101
-
Darwin Raid [Monty Tuckerman home movie: HMAS Warnambool, Darwin bombing raid and Ambon evacuation]
Film
Maker: Tuckerman, Victor Ernest Montague (Monty)
Chief Petty Officer Monty Tuckerman's home movie footage of the bombing of Darwin. Film reel opens with a handcrafted intertitle, "Darwin Raid", which is ignited with a burning taper. The following s...F11775
-
1. Diggers troppo band inspires Aborigines 2. News briefs. Wreckage of first hostile aircraft shot down over Australia. Dutch ship damaged. (News From Home. No. 1) (Cinesound Review No. 580)
Film
Maker: Cinesound
1. (2 min 30 sec) Jazz band improvised from makeshift instruments gives a performance outside Darwin, local Aborigines stage a Corroboree. Jazz music dubbed over Aborigine item 2. (54 sec) Wreckage of...F00701
-
French fleet scuttled
Film
Captured German film of the French fleet scuttled at Toulon on 27 Nov 1942 by order of Admiral Laborde when the city was occupied by the II SS Panzer Corps.F00806
-
Gallipoli 1921 [The Newfoundland film]
Film
Maker: Nangle, Thomas
Shows hill 10 British Cemetery Suvla. Trenches at Suvla. Turkish gun at Baby 700 placed there after the evacuation. Ocean beach Anzac and Suvla Bay. Salt Lake from Sari Bair. Shrapnel Gully Cemetery ...F00128
-
1. General Blamey greets troops from front line 2. German survivors from scuttled freighter arrive 3. Australia on the offensive 4. Allied services parade in Melbourne. (Cinesound News No. 581)
Film
1. (55 sec) General Blamey, Commander in Chief of Allied land forces in the South Pacific area, is among the first to greet a body of men back from the "green hell" outside Gona, New Guinea. The Gener...F00606
-
[German newsreel] (Ufa Nr 426)
Film
Maker: Universum Film AG
German newsreel produced by Ufa circa late 1939. covering: 1. Meeting of Soviet and Japanese commanders on the Mongolian frontier. 2. European wild life. 3. Olympic baths at Berlin. 4. American Legion...F01996
-
Glimpses of Army days by George French
Film
Maker: French, George
George French's film of his service as a Sergeant with 8 Garrison Battalion Newcastle Defence and later as an officer with Australian Water Transport and British Borneo Civil Affairs Unit (BBCAU). Ope...F00277
-
Guide to Japan
Film
Maker: O'Brien, John William Alexander
Introduction: 'Presenting. Guide to Japan.' Tokyo and the Diet building. Imperial Palace and various scenes of other building, places and temples. Tour group aboard the US Army train the Coronet Limi...F04952
-
HMAS Canberra: Solomons action
Film
Maker: Unknown
HMAS Canberra with United States Naval units. Shots of HMAS Canberra burning. HMAS Canberra was sunk in action against the Japanese Navy in a night action on 8-9 August 1942.F01747
-
[HMAS Kanimbla and HMAS Hobart] / Lieutenant Commander B.I. Freeman
Film
Maker: Freeman, Bruce Irving
Reel 1. The armed merchant cruiser HMAS Kanimbla's part in an operation by "B" Force under command of Captain W.L.G. Adams CB, OBE, RN to capture German and Italian merchant ships at Bandar Shapur, Ir...F03343
-
[HMAS Stuart in the Mediterranean and Middle East]
Film
Maker: Carey, Jack
Opens with shots from HMAS Stuart of the bombardment of Bardia by the Royal Navy battleships HMS Malaya and HMS Ramillies. HMAS Stuart did not fired so Petty Officer Carey was able to film the action....F03482
-
HMAS Sydney Debris Field- Dive 3, Part 3 of 17 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage includes port side of inverted bow with scuttles present, port side anchor closeup, chain cable from bow, compressed 4" shell casings, metal box on seabed, splinter mat on seabed, inverted aft...F08968
-
HMAS Sydney Debris Field- Dive 3, Part 13 of 17 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage includes seabed, shoes, debris on seabed, 21 inch quadruple rotating Mark VII torpedo tube mount with two torpedoes loaded, end caps of quadruple torpedo tube mount to debris on seabed. Visibl...F08978
-
HMAS Sydney Debris Field- Dive 3, Part 5 of 17 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage begins with seabed and various debris on seabed, shell casings, aft funnel, 12 foot rangefinder, tyre, wooden crate to inverted quarterdeck depth charge rack, debris on seabed, inverted forwar...F08970
-
HMAS Sydney Debris Field- Dive 3, Part 4 of 17 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage begins with Director Control Tower (DCT) and surrounding seabed to debris on seabed including a paint tin and lid, rectangular tank or locker, steel plate and cylindrical tank, shell casings, ...F08969
-
HMAS Sydney Debris Field- Dive 3, Part 14 of 17 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage includes debris on seabed, steel wire rope, 4" shell casings, debris on seabed, 21 inch quadruple rotating Mark VII torpedo tube mount, debris on seabed and boat crutches used to support ships...F08979
-
HMAS Sydney Debris Field- Dive 3, Part 10 of 17 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage includes debris on seabed, upper deck ladder, seabed, shell casings, possible top housing from large boat, cable reel, seabed, shoes on seabed, damaged shell casings and torpedo trolley to sea...F08975
-
HMAS Sydney Debris Field- Dive 3, Part 8 of 17 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage begins with seawater and seabed then passes 4" shell casings, 'A' bracket, propeller thought to be from 36ft pinnace boat, part of 'A' bracket, inverted High Angle Control Station (HACS), look...F08973
-
HMAS Sydney Debris Field- Dive 3, Part 17 of 17 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage includes seawater, debris on seabed and seawater. Visible onscreen timecode, video footage date stamp 05.04.2008 should be 06.04.2008.F08982
-
HMAS Sydney Debris Field- Dive 3, Part 7 of 17 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage begins with jellyfish then to tyre on seabed, debris on seabed and shoe, remnants of Vickers .5" Mark III machine gun on Mark II mount, debris on seabed, ships boat and end of aircraft catapul...F08972
-
HMAS Sydney Debris Field- Dive 7, Part 1 of 7 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage includes seawater, rectangular box with piping and inspection cover on seabed, wire mesh, anenome, debris on seabed, base of Director Control Tower (DCT), cable chain on seabed, eel, aft searc...F08983
-
HMAS Sydney Debris Field- Dive 3, Part 2 of 17 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage includes looking down on bow and close up of port side anchor, inside bow, visible chain cable and hull of bow, starboard side of bow and anchor. Visible onscreen timecode.F08967
-
HMAS Sydney Debris Field- Dive 3, Part 12 of 17 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage includes seabed, 21 inch Mark IX Torpedo, cables, cable reel, seabed, return to torpedo and ships boats. Visible onscreen timecode.F08977
-
HMAS Sydney Debris Field- Dive 3, Part 16 of 17 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage includes debris on seabed and a tyre. Visible onscreen timecode, video footage date stamp 05.04.2008 should be 06.04.2008.F08981
-
HMAS Sydney Debris Field- Dive 3, Part 6 of 17 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage begins with seawater then looking down upon aircraft catapult to ships boat, closeup of ships boat's badge, looking down upon ships boat then back to aircraft catapult, debris on seabed, cable...F08971
-
HMAS Sydney Debris Field- Dive 3, Part 11 of 17 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage includes torpedo trolley, shoe, damaged shell casing to High Angle Control Station (HACS), seabed and debris on seabed, stern of possible 36ft motor pinnace, boat lying across pinnace- ships b...F08976
-
HMAS Sydney Debris Field- Dive 3, Part 1 of 17 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage includes seawater, foremast and crows nest, seabed and inverted bow at break, along port side of bow with anchor in tact. Visible onscreen timecode.F08966
-
HMAS Sydney Debris Field- Dive 3, Part 15 of 17 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage includes boat crutches, seawater, ships boat with close up of ships badge, looking down on ships boat, debris on seabed. Visible onscreen timecode, video footage date stamp 05.04.2008 should b...F08980
-
HMAS Sydney Debris Field- Dive 7, Part 2 of 7 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage includes metal dish on seabed, steel rod, aft funnel, debris on seabed, 4" ammunition bundled together, steel bucket on seabed, paravane, rectangular rivet steel box, looking down on capstan, ...F08984
-
HMAS Sydney Debris Field- Dive 3, Part 9 of 17 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage begins with carvel motor boat then moves to a tyre, upturned helmet, shoe to debris on seabed to High Angle Control Tower (HACS) which is not focused, good footage of shoes on seabed to cables...F08974
-
HMAS Sydney Wreck- Dive 2, Part 6 of 12 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage begins with platform near forward funnel then moves to the base of the aircraft crane and the Walrus catapult to damage on port side hull and close up of main deck. Footage continues around th...F08958
-
HMAS Sydney Wreck- Dive 2, Part 8 of 12 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage includes heading aft along port side hull and shows some surrounding sea floor and debris near stern. No visible onscreen timecode.F08960
-
HMAS Sydney Wreck- Dive 2, Part 11 of 12 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage begins with seawater then to port side hull near X turret and around X and Y turrets, passing over the wreck to starboard 4" high-angle anti-aircraft gun (S2) and starboard hull then to starbo...F08963
-
HMAS Sydney Wreck- Dive 2, Part 1 of 12 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage is of seawater as the ROV is being lowered to the seabed. Then to ship's break and heading towards B turret. No visible onscreen timecode.F08953
-
HMAS Sydney Wreck- Dive 2, Part 3 of 12 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage becomes clearer and begins with the break in ship towards a close up of A turret with twin 6" Mark XXIII guns, inside the break of the ship and debris on the seabed near the break of the ship....F08955
-
HMAS Sydney Wreck- Dive 7, Part 1 of 1 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage includes boat crutches near stern of ship, good images of the stern then along the starboard side up to B turret then back aft towards stern. The ROV moves quite quickly through this dive. Vis...F08965
-
HMAS Sydney Wreck- Dive 2, Part 10 of 12 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage begins with a close up of the railing behind X turret to aft search platform and then fades to seawater. No visible onscreen timecode.F08962
-
HMAS Sydney Wreck- Dive 1, Part 2 of 2 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
The water is clear but the ROV would not move from the garage, rather than waste hours bringing the garage back to the surface, the dive was treated as a reconnaissance mission to take whatever footag...F08952
-
HMAS Sydney Wreck- Dive 2, Part 5 of 12 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage includes B turret, looking toward and around as well as inside the turret then towards the Bridge and Director Control Tower (DCT) as well as the base of the High Angle Control Station (HACS) ...F08957
-
HMAS Sydney Wreck- Dive 1, Part 1 of 2 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
During the footage, the water is clear but the ROV would not move from the garage, rather than waste hours bringing the garage back to the surface, the dive was treated as a reconnaissance mission to ...F08951
-
HMAS Sydney Wreck- Dive 2, Part 9 of 12 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage begins around the rails of the stern and looks down and around the stern of the ship moving to starboard side viewing the hull, quarterdeck and Y turret from starboard side then to the propell...F08961
-
HMAS Sydney Wreck- Dive 2, Part 4 of 12 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage includes seawater then focuses on the break of ship and to A turret with close up around and inside A turret as well as the damage to the front of A turret. No visible onscreen timecode.F08956
-
HMAS Sydney Wreck- Dive 2, Part 2 of 12 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage includes seawater then towards B turret and A turret briefly before more seawater. No visible onscreen timecode.F08954
-
HMAS Sydney Wreck- Dive 2, Part 7 of 12 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage begins with port side of aft search platform then moves towards X turret then Y turret and quarterdeck over stern towards the propellers on port side then heading forward along the port side h...F08959
-
HMAS Sydney Wreck - Dive 2 (The search for the Sydney)
Film
Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage begins at the stand for the forward starboard 4" high-angle anti-aircraft gun then to shell damage on starboard hull and crutches for motor boats, across base of High Angle Control Station (H...F08964
-
1. How "Repulse" sank - sailors tell story 2. Women in war. (Cinesound News No. 536)
Film
1. (1 min 56 sec) Sailors tell how HMS "Repulse" was sunk 2. (4 min 4 sec) The women's services and work in factories.F00565
-
Invasion of Sicily
Film
The Allied invasion of Sicily, code name Operation Husky, 2,000 Allied ships cross Mediterranean unopposed. Features Generals Montgomery, Eisenhower and Patton, also Admiral Cunningham. One scene show...F00808
-
1. Latest in tanks for Australian Armoured Division 2. Women in top RAAF and WAAAF examination 3. Army approves basketball as "he-man" game 4. Japanese intensify submarine attacks on East Coast. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 26)
Film
1. (1 min 18 sec) General Grant tanks supplied under lend-lease featuring the 37mm and 75mm double cannon equipment 2. (48 sec) Air Vice-Marshal Wrigley and Air Commodore Brownall inspect a Melbourne ...F00349
-
Looking for trouble: with searchlights in New Guinea
Film
Maker: Robinson, John
(A voice over sound track has been added to the Digital Betacam version). Activities of the 67 and 73 Mobile Anti- Aircraft Searchlight Batteries in New Guinea 1942-1943. Opening titles "Looking for t...F04002
-
Malahang beach resort Lae
Film
Maker: Wood, Frederick Sydney
Malahang beach is situation about seven miles from Lae, New Guinea and is the recognised beach resort for personnel in the Lae Nadzab area.F07163
-
Manunda and New Guinea / Major William Maurice Ada
Film
Maker: Ada, William Maurice
Partial colour home movie showing ship board scenes and views of Manunda and New Guinea; views from the ship; shots of Australian army personnel on board the Manunda; nurses on boarding craft, wearin...F04767
-
Melbourne-Frank E. Evans collision
Film
Maker: Keller, Roy Russell, Warren Leslie William
[B&W filmed by RAN Photographer Warren Russell] Survivors of the HMAS Melbourne USS Frank E Evans collison in the ships mess. Wounded being treated. Shot of the damaged bow of HMAS Melbourne. Wessex ...F03027
-
Members of 61 Battalion Association and others visit New Guinea battlegrounds April 1976
Film
Members of 61 Battalion Association and others visit New Guinea battlegrounds April 1976F03339
-
Men from the sea (Into battle series No.9)
Film
Into battle series No.9 presented by the Ministry of Information. The story of a missing ship from convoy PJ 15. Inquiry into the sinking of the "Arctic Star". Acene at Merchant Navy Club and a discus...F01765
-
Men of the Lightships
Film
A recreation of the sinking of the East Dudgeon Lightship by German aircraft and the subsequent loss of its crew. The film states that lightships have been considered international and have not been a...F01572
-
1. More Canberra survivors arrive 2. Meet Squadron Leader Clive Caldwell, DFC and Bar 3. Milne bay wounded return 4. Second front vital - says Vladimir Mikheyev 5. Light Horse rides again. (Cinesound News No. 569)
Film
1. (58 sec) Wounded men who survived the sinking of HMAS "Canberra" in the sea battles off the Solomon Islands arrive at an Australian port 2. (44 sec) Young Australian Airman, Squadron Leader Clive C...F00595
-
Plan occupation
Film
Maker: O'Brien, John William Alexander
A home movie taken by VX15127 Brigadier (Brig) John O'Brien. Brig O'Brien served as the Leader of the Australian Scientific Mission to Japan 1945-1946 and Chief of the Scientific and Technical Divisio...F04949
-
1. 100,000 Pounds damage in big city blaze, Sydney 2. Motion picture industry helps sale of war bonds 3. Women in war 4. Shipping as greatest problem 5. Battle of the Solomons. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 46)
Film
Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 46. 1. (1 min 9 sec) Sydney, NSW. Big city blaze 2. (1 min 13 sec) 20th Century Fox Film, "Week end in Havana" premiere helps sell war bonds 3. (1 min 48 ...F00368
-
Prelude to glory (The Anzac story)
Film
Maker: McGrath, James Joseph Hunter, Frank Australian Broadcasting Commission
A brief history of Australia from its discovery by Cook, intending to depict how (white) Australia was formed as an independent country, and how its people were moulded by their environment. It descri...F10063
-
RAAF bomber crews [No 13 Squadron RAAF]
Film
Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
These are the crews of Lockheed Hudson medium bombers of No 13 Squadron RAAF which successfully attacked three enemy ships (a warship and two other ships). Result one sunk, one probably sunk and one d...F01780
-
1. RAAF strafe enemy ships. 2. Major-General Bennett speaks. 3. What of Japan ? (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 13)
Film
Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone Vol. 13 No. 13. 1. (1 min 36 sec) Flight Lieutenant Truscott and other RAAF pilots in Spitfire aircraft strafe enemy shipping. 2. Major-General Bennett urges offensive sp...F00336
-
[RAF Coastal Command Beaufighters]
Film
Operational film of RAF Coastal Command Beaufighter aircraft on anti-ship strike. The units are unidentified. Squadron codes on the aircraft featured in the film are K2, 2R, 1V and 1G. The aircraft sp...F02580
-
Reginald Evans recalls the rescue of PT-109, 2 August 1943
Film
Maker: NBC
A kinescope recording on 16mm film of an item from the NBC televsion's Jack Paar Program on the PT-109 commanded by Lieutenant John F Kennedy the then current President of the United States of America...F03487
-
1. Reinforcements for the heroes of Bardia 2. Raider victims reach Australia - exclusive pictures and interviews. (Cinesound News No. 480)
Film
Maker: Cinesound
1. (2 min 10 sec) Australian troops arrive at a Middle East port., others entrain at the Brisbane Railway Station, boarding ferries in Sydney Harbour to go to troopship 2. (7 min) 496 Victims of an en...F00511
-
Salvage of Japanese ships in Simpson Harbour, Rabaul
Film
Maker: Wood, Frederick Sydney
Scenes of Japanese tanker and supply ship 5301 being salvaged by the Commonwealth Marine Salvage Board. The tanker, built at Kobe, Japan, in 1920, is four hundred and sixty feet in length, fifty six f...F07356
-
Salvage of wrecked and old Japanese war ships
Film
Maker: Military History Section, BCOF
In Japan the bomb damaged dry docks were repaired and pumped dry and work started on the salvage of Japanese warships. The reclaimed metal going to industry for more peaceful articles than warships.F07498
-
Second Voyager enquiry Channel 10 Report
Film
Maker: Channel Ten Sydney
Second Voyager enquiry Channel 10 ReportF03025
-
Shipbusters
Film
Maker: RAF Film Production Unit
Produced by the RAF Film Production Unit, Denham London. Immediately after the war an aircrew from each of the squadrons comprising the RAF Dallachy Strike Wing was detailed to take part in this produ...F04639
-
1. Ship wrecked on NSW coast 2. General Blamey reviews famous 6th Division 3. Gary Cooper arrives in Australia. (News From Home No. 64)
Film
Extracts from News From Home newsreel compile No. 64. (1 min 15 sec) A nine thousand ton ship is wrecked on the coast of Australia, the AIF are called out to do all they can to rescue the seamen, and ...F00757
-
32 Small Ships Squadron Vietnam 1968-1969
Film
Maker: Vansleve, Neal Whitney
Scenes include Reel 1. Vung Tau, Scenes of river villages along the Saigon River. Flight of Iroquois helicopters moving into drop zone to the east of Saigon in response to Viet Cong action. Reel 2. Ph...F04003
-
Strategic Port Moresby (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 33)
Film
Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 33. Port Moresby, New Guinea Australian and American forces in the region are shown for the first time. Aircraft take off and return from missions over Ja...F00355
-
Street scenes. Bombing and strafing
Film
Maker: RAAF Historical Records Section Cine Unit SEAC
Street scenes. Consolidated B-24 Liberators bombing. Flak bursts. Shot of the waist gunners. Bomb doors opening. Bombs dropping. Explosions. Bombing and straffing ships. A burning vessel. Identified u...F02141
-
1. Survivors from torpedoed ships reach safety 2. US troops honour fallen comrades on Memorial Say 3. Subs shell Sydney. (Cinesound News No. 554)
Film
Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News No. 554. 1. (1 min 43 sec) Interview with the survivors of the Iron Chieftain, first ship to be sunk off the NSW coast on the night of 3/4 June 1942. 2. (1 min 36 sec) So...F00580
-
The air plan
Film
Maker: RAF Film Production Unit
A Royal Air Force Film Production Unit promotional film. Introduction title: 'The Normandy campaign was a combined operation by the sea land and air forces of the United Nations. This film sets out to...F02700
-
[The bombing of Darwin and aftermath February-March 1942]
Film
Maker: Sheldon-Collins, Francis
Darwin, Northern Territory, February - March 1942. The scenes (although not in chronological sequence) were taken after the first raid on 19 February and before the second in Mitchell Street from outs...F04775
-
The Gen [RAF news magazine] No. 8
Film
RAF magazine No. 8 covers the war against the Japanese. Items on: the Japanese soldier; defence of India; New Guinea; bombing of Wake Island by the Americans; Tarawa; Burma; Allied air attacks on New ...F02184
-
The Middle East campaigns (Australians at war)
Film
Prelude - Greece, Crete - Syria - Western Desert. Tobruk - Australian political scene - Japan prepares - Lend-Lease - HMAS Sydney sunk - Pearl Harbour.F08007
-
1. The passing of HMAS 'Canberra' 2. VAD parade NSW. News review 3. Donated blood becomes bottled life for injured. (Fox movietone News Vol. 13 No. 37)
Film
Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 37. 1. (2 min 35 sec) HMAS Canberra. A short tribute to a fine ship and her gallant crew. 2. (53 sec) Three thousand women of the Volunteer Aid Detachment ...F00359
-
Tobruk action 1941
Film
Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
The Tobruk area in which the British Forces had imprisoned a garrison of 25,000 troops was protected by two formidable rings of defence, an outer perimeter of stone fortifications protected by mines, ...F01063
-
Tobruk, 30th July to 22nd October
Film
Maker: Monro, Ronald Keith
The day by day story of Tobruk. The leisure hours, the bombing and the wounded. Scenes of bomb damaged Tobruk. Sunken ships in Tobruk harbour. The wrecked Insect Class gunboat HMS Lady Bird and anti-a...F07001
-
United States Navy Combat Bulletin No. 5
Film
Maker: US Navy
1. "Air Sea Battle: surface fleet continues to batter enemy air attacks". Coverage of the Kamikaze attacks on USN TF-58 in the Okinawa campaign. Shows suicide aircraft attacking through an intense ant...F10179
-
Visit by US Admiral Ramsey and party to BCOF
Film
Maker: Cartledge, Ronald Selby
Admiral D C Ramsey, Commander in Chief US Pacific Fleet, with a party of his staff officers, paid a visit to the BCOF zone. Arriving at Hiroshima station they were met by 26 (N392) Brigadier Ronald Ni...F07502
-
Voyager survivor remembers
Film
A kinescope recording on 16mm film of an interview with Leading Seaman R E 'Pedro' Rich conducted by Patrick Tennison on radio 3AW Norman Banks program. Leading Seaman Rich recalls his escape from the...F03026
-
War in the Pacific
Film
Maker: SFU SFU
A SFU production made for the British Ministry of Information. A survey of the war in the Pacific from Pearl Harbour to the defeat of the Japanese in New Guinea by the Australians at Milne Bay and Bun...F01638
-
YMCA activities New Guinea and Bougainville
Film
Maker: Jones, Leonard John
This film was taken by Commissioner Leonard John Jones during his service with the YMCA & Australian Comforts Fund in New Guinea and Bougainville. Scenes include: prevention. Lae Australian War cemete...F03437