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Australia Day celebrations, Rabaul
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Maker: Dolan, Samuel Murray
Australia's National Day was celebrated in Rabaul by holding a race meeting on the Japanese constructed track. The event was highly organised and a tote, run by Captain Slade of the Divisional Cash Of...F07421
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Australia has wings
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Maker: Malcolm, George D
A Department of Information film made by the Commonwealth Film Laboratory for the National Film Council of the Motion Picture Industry. The manufacture of Pratt and Whitney single row Wasp radial engi...F01248
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1. Australia helps Russia prepare for winter 2. Around the clock at American Service Club (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 35)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 35. 1. (1 min 26 sec) Sheep skins shipped to Russia to help clothe Soviet troops 2. (2 min 8 sec) Story of an American recreation centre in Melbourne, Vic...F00357
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1. Australia honours victims of air crash 2. HMAS Sydney returns from glorious victory (Cinesound News No 459)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News No. 459. 1. (2 min 51 sec) The victims are: Brigadier G Street, Minister for the Army, Mr James Fairbairn, Minister for Air, General White, Chief of the General Staff, Sir...F00501
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Australia is like this
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Maker: Ford, Ross Herschel Department of Information
An Australian produced propaganda film for American audiences, which uses the device of an American soldier stationed in Australia writing a letter to his parents in the US. The film covers his arriva...F01303
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Australia looks to the air (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 4)
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A short history of the supply of aircraft for the RAAF and aircraft production in Australia.F00327
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Australia makes anti-tank guns (Cinesound News No. 557)
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The manufacture of 2 Pounder anti-tank guns in the General Motors Factory Woodville South Australia. Commentator states that reports from America stating that Australia is self-sufficient in arms prod...F00583
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Australian aces back to blitz Japs
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Maker: Cinesound
Newsreel item showing Flight-Lieutenant H. Graham Pockley, DFC and Flying Officer John L. Waddy, DFC, seated with their wives in a garden of a private home at Palm Beach, Sydney. The two airmen questi...F02009
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Australian airmen 1939-1945
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Maker: Commonwealth Film Unit Unknown
Produced by the Commonwealth Film Unit for the information of officers in the Repatriation Department. Bulk of the material supplied from the AWM film collection.F10160
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Australian airmen sightseeing Agra, India
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Maker: RAAF Historical Records Section Cine Unit SEAC
Group of Australian airmen sightseeing, examine the Taj Nahal tomb, Agra, India. Exterior shots of the building, two interior scenes and the balance in and around one of the four minarets.F02115
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2/9 Australian Armoured Regiment prepares for action
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Maker: McInnes, Hugh
2/9th Australian Armoured Regiment at Morotai; waterproofing equipment and vehicles; general maintenance and modification of Matilda tanks; breech-testing ammunition to ensure that there are no bulged...F01669
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Australian Army at war: Australian Army operations 1939-1945
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Maker: Australian Army Army Kinematography Services
An Australian Army documentary produced by Army Kinematography Services (AKS) London and Doc. K. Sternberg in collaboration with Audio-Film Productions Melbourne compiled from official films taken dur...F05001
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Australian Army Education Service
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Maker: O'Halloran, John Frederick M
Seven months ago a single leaky marquee housed a small library, an office table and a rough leaky bench where one man with a knife and ruler worked making a trinket out of three ply and veneer. In tho...F07562
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Australian Army Ordnance Corps at 3 Australian Prisoner of War Reception Group
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Maker: Cuffley, Leighton Edward
Attached to 3 Australian POW Reception Group is a small detachment of Ordnance personnel (1 officer and 3 Other Ranks), whose job it is to supply the group with all types of stores and clothing to re-...F07375
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2/1 Australian Artillery Survey Regiment Middle East June 1940 - March 1942
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Maker: Pitcher, Eric Edward
An amateur film taken by NX31038 Eric Pitcher while serving with the 2/1 Artillery Survey Regiment in Egypt and Syria. Pan of street scene Cairo or Alexandria. Bazaars. American bar. Geizra cricket c...F00255
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1. Australian built Austen gun is hard hitting 2. US carrier in spectacular sea - air battle. (News From Home. No. 24)
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Maker: News from Home
Extracts from News From Home No. 241. (1 min 38 sec) The Austen gun, an Australian adaption of the Sten, goes through its paces at Port Kembla, NSW. 2. (3 min 10 sec) An American aircraft carrier is s...F00720
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2/2 Australian Cavalry Commando Squadron, Faita
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Maker: Kinna, Darrell
In an isolated village called Faita, this Cavalry Squadron, which first saw action in Timor, live independently in native huts. Large scale patrols are carried out, they cross the Ramu River in native...F07082
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Australian Comforts Fund mobile unit on RAF station for Australian airmen serving in the RAF (C/B 375)
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Maker: RAF Film Unit
An Australian Comforts Fund (ACF) mobile canteen at a RAF airfield. Beaufighter aircraft in invasion stripes parked on airfield. Airmen gather around the truck and comforts are distributed to the men....F02589
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Australian commandos training in Syria
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Maker: Dennett, Raymond Alexander
Troops look on as instruction is given on outdoor sand map. Two rowing boats with about four men in each on calm sea. Troops move up rocky slope above shore line. 'Enemy position', represented by Hess...F07014
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Australian contingent to take part in the victory parade London. Australian contingent film outtakes.
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Maker: Cuffley, Leighton Edward Scale, Clement Stewart Dean, Colin
This film shows the story of the two hundred and fifty servicemen and women who were chosen to represent the RAN, AIF and RAAF at the Victory Parade held in London on 8 June 1946. It starts with the A...F07438