Filters
Collection
87 Results
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Aerial bombardment damage in and around Simpson Harbour, Rabaul
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Maker: Thain, Ernest Robertson
Damage inflicted by Allied aerial bombing on Japanese planes and shipping on Lakunai Airstrip and Simpson Harbour, Rabaul.F07304
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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)
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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
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1. Army salvage finds use for discarded uniforms 2. Daring Japanese raiders sunk in Sydney Harbour (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 25)
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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
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Attack
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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
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Battle for Tunisia
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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
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Battle front action from Guadalcanal
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United States ships, Henderson Airfield and United States Marines at Guadalcanal. Identified personnel: Lieutenant-General Alexander Vandegrift and Majora-General Vogel.F00819
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Bismarck convoy smashed!
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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
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[Bombing of Darwin 19 February 1942]
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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
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1. Canberra survivors 2. An Aussie joins the American Army 3. The carrier pigeon goes to war. (Cinesound News No. 565)
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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
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1. Chips off the Anzac block 2. Sinking of 'Yorktown' (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 41)
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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
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Convoy escort
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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
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Darwin Raid [Monty Tuckerman home movie: HMAS Warnambool, Darwin bombing raid and Ambon evacuation]
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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
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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)
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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
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French fleet scuttled
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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
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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)
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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
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[German newsreel] (Ufa Nr 426)
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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
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Glimpses of Army days by George French
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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
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HMAS Canberra: Solomons action
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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
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[HMAS Kanimbla and HMAS Hobart] / Lieutenant Commander B.I. Freeman
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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
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[HMAS Stuart in the Mediterranean and Middle East]
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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