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  1. America goes over

    Film

    Maker: United States Army Signal Corps

    Introduction reads: 'Official film of the Corps of Signals taken under action and service conditions in France. Especially released by the War Department to the Eastman Kodak Company for the 2nd Amer...

    F00169

  2. A nation's heritage

    Film

    Maker: Commonwealth Film Unit

    A documentary short film produced by the Commonwealth Film Unit to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings.

    F10072

  3. Armistice and after

    Film

    Maker: Grigg, John British Broadcasting Corporation Brown, Malcolm

    In November 1918 the victorious Allies were pushing the German army steadily back through occupied France and Belgium while in a railway carriage tucked away in the beautiful Compiegne woods, plenipot...

    F00193

  4. Australia at war 1914-1918: an account of the Australian force in the Great War

    Film

    Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank) Wilkins, George Hubert Bagnall, Frank N Pattison, Barrie Wraxall, Gordon

    A Commonwealth Film Unit production for the Australian War Memorial. An appraisal of Australia's part in the First World War and the changes which have become apparent in Australia, illustrated by sce...

    F00189

  5. Australia in France

    Film

    Maker: Baldwin, Herbert Frederick Malins, Geoffrey McDowell, John Benjamin Bean, Charles Edwin Woodrow (C E W)

    British official film taken at the request of Australian authorities shows the Prime Minister the Right Honourable William Morris (Billy) Hughes and High Commissioner of Australia visit to the Western...

    F00047

  6. Australian postal film

    Film

    Scenes include; main entrance to the general Post Office Melbourne. Mail from the country being unloaded into postal vehicle. Sorting of mail. Date stamping machine in operation. Postmen leaving t...

    F00144

  7. Australians remember

    Film

    Maker: Tapscott, Russell Leake, John Walker, Robert Meikle, Richard Johnson, Peter Burgess, Francis Patrick "Pat"

    Depicts Australia's role in the two World Wars, Korean and Vietnam war. Uses archival footage as well as film of exhibitions at the Memorial.

    F10220

  8. Australia prepared

    Film

    Australia's efforts towards the Allied cause during the 1914-18 war. Scenes include: training at Liverpool Camp NSW; The Federal Government Cordite Works; Women processing .303 cartridges at the Colo...

    F00143

  9. Background of a tradition

    Film

    Maker: Carnemolla, John McKeon, B Wasley, Les Wendon, Ron Wood, Frederick Sydney Golsby, Kevin Low, David Eagles, Moneta Killan, Frank

    A Movietone production on the 50 year history of the Royal Australian Navy. Shows the launch of the battle cruiser HMAS Australia at Clyde. The arrival of the destroyers Warrago, Parramatta and Yarra...

    F10067

  10. Bapaume to Bullecourt

    Film

    Maker: Baldwin, Herbert Frederick Malins, Geoffrey Wilkins, George Hubert

    The advance on Bapaume and Bullecourt after the Germans had retreated to the Hindenburg Line. Shows Australians participating during this action. The infantry advancing across no-man's land; the con...

    F00045

  11. Cameramen at war

    Film

    Maker: Glendenning, Raymond Lye, Leonard Charles Huia

    A Ministry of Information film produced by the Realist Film Unit with acknowledgement to the Newsreel companies, the Services film units and the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum. The story of Briti...

    F01419

  12. Fighting in Flanders

    Film

    Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank) Wilkins, George Hubert

    This film deals with the participation of the Australian troops in the third battle of Ypres during the autumn of 1917. Scenes include Australians preparing for the attack; being reviewed by Sir Doug...

    F00056

  13. First World War: edited by Laurence Stalling

    Film

    Maker: Stalling, Laurence

    Introduction reads: 'An authentic motion picture record reaching back to the turn of the twentieth century collected from official sources and the archives of the great nations and presented by Fox Fi...

    F00170

  14. Forgotten men: the war as it was

    Film

    Maker: Lee, Norman

    An Associated British Picture Corporation Ltd production. Commentary written and spoken on camera by Sir John Hammerton, war historian in conjunction with the representatives of the fighting forces 1...

    F00172

  15. German concentration camps: Holsworthy, Trial Bay, Berrima, Molonglo

    Film

    Maker: Ive, Bert

    Scenes of Holsworthy and Molonglo internment camps for enemy aliens taken in the summer of 1918-19 by Bert Ive. Also included is earlier footage from Trial Bay and Berrima. The purpose of the film w...

    F00133

  16. How the Digger gets his mail: the Australian Army postal services at work

    Film

    Maker: Smith, J W Wilkins, George Hubert

    Officers and staff of the Australian Base Post Office London. The staff numbers over seven hundred employees of whom the greater number are women who had to be specially trained for the work. Mail arr...

    F00020

  17. Interesting events in the history of the AIF

    Film

    Maker: Joyce, William Henry Young, Sydney Harry Edward

    The 1914 Anzac men leave France for two months furlough in Australia. Anzac Day London 1919. Inter allied games held at Joinville Le Pont, Paris. No. 4 Squadron AFC occupy a German aerodrome at Col...

    F00031

  18. Jacka VC

    Film

    Maker: Buesst, Nigel Cooper, Ross

    The life of the famous Australian war hero, Captain Albert Jacka, VC, MC and BAR, of the 14th Battalion AIF, who was the first Australian to win the Victoria Cross at Gallipoli. The film uses photogra...

    F10234

  19. Munition works

    Film

    Maker: Pathe Company

    Operations of a British muntions factory where women do all but the most heavy production work. Original title 'Women workers for victory'. Pictures taken by authority and sanction of the Ministry of...

    F00103

  20. Mutiny on the Western Front

    Film

    Maker: Mingara Films

    Australia's involvement on the Western Front in the 1914-1918 war. Told by soldier's through letters, diaries and personal recollections. Uses archival footage interspersed with with scenes showing sa...

    F10241

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