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Air power is peace power
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Maker: Cine Service Productions
Cinesound Review produced to inspire enlistment in the RAAF Includes: Battle of the Bismark Sea. "Black Jack" Walker, "Torchy" Uren, "Bluey" Truscott, "Killer" Caldwell. Biscuit bombers. March past of...F02266
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Anzac Day 1949 at Australian War Memorial
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Maker: Thain, Ernest Robertson
Coverage of the 1949 Anzac Day ceremonies at the Australian War Memorial.F10014
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Anzac Day 1948 at Australian War Memorial
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Maker: Thain, Ernest Robertson
Partial coverage of the Anzac Day ceremony held at the Australian War Memorial on Sunday April 25 1948. Concentrating mainly on personality shots, the footage features British actors Sir Laurence and ...F10013
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Anzac Day 1947 at the Australian War Memorial
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Maker: Thain, Ernest Robertson
Australian War Memorial, Canberra 25 April 1947. Coverage of the Anzac Day ceremonies.F10010
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Armies mightiest field guns shown in firing practice
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Maker: Thomas, Lowell Movietone News
Movietone newsreel item on a Heavy Artillery Regiment of the United States Army on manoeuvres. Shows the regiment's 240mm M1 Howitzers and M33 Prime Mover artillery tractors which are conversions of t...F10196
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1. Army and Navy warplanes scrapped 2. Sailing ship "Danmark" goes home 3. Wounded soldiers learn to use new artificial limbs 4. Harbours of Pacific coast cleared of submarine nets 5. B24 in test crash 6. Army - Navy gridiron upset 7. Film reports from Japan MacArthur honoured 8. Bikini Atoll A-bomb test (Extracts from U.S. Movietone Newsreels)
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1. Army and Navy warplanes scrapped. 2. Sailing ship 'Danmark' goes home. 3. Wounded soldiers learn to use new artificial limbs. 4. Harbours of Pacific coast cleared of submarine nets. 5. B-24 in ...F03508
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Army fighter plane crosses country in record time
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Maker: Movietone News
Movietone newsreel item on the new speed record for crossing the United States. The P-51 Mustang aircraft left from Los Angeles and arrived in New York six hours and thirty one minutes later with one ...F10199
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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
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Background of a tradition
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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
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Basic plumbing - copper pipe bending
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Maker: Unknown
Australian Military Forces Directorate of Military Training film AC 31 from the RAEME (Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers) Training Centre Command Library (copy 'A'). Basic plumbing ...AWM2018.451.5
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Basic plumbing - joints for copper tubing
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Maker: Unknown
Australian Military Forces Directorate of Military Training film AC 34 from the RAEME (Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers) Training Centre Command Library (copy 'A'). Different metho...AWM2018.451.11
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Beach recovery part III
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Maker: World Wide Pictures
The role of the Beach Recovery Section. Approved January 1946. Produced for the Directorate of Army Kinematography by World Wide Pictures. This film shows a Beach Recovery Section and its duties in am...F05175
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Besa Machine Gun 7.92mm mechanism
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Maker: National Interest Pictures
An armourer training film on the Besa 7.92mm machine gun, approved 1946. Produced for the Army Kinema Corporation by National Interest Picture Productions Ltd. Animated diagrams support commentary and...F05174
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Cartographic Company Bendigo
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Maker: Kinna, Darrell
Situated in South Bendigo the Land Headquarters Cartographic Company was responsible for producing army maps and also some maps for the Navy and Air Force; in addition they produced admiralty Fleet or...F07431
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Citizen Air Force
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The cadre squadrons of the Citizens Active Air Force are composed predominately of civilians from all walks of life. Officers and other ranks, who sacrifice their weekends to undergo service training....F02267
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Common stoppages in automatic weapons
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Maker: Publicity Picture Productions Limited
Australian Military Forces Directorate of Military Training film C 852 from the RAEME (Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers) Training Centre Command Library (copy 'A'). It was produced...AWM2018.451.3
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Diesel engine governors - GM series 71 limiting speed mechanical governor
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Maker: Audio Productions Inc
An American training film production for the US Navy. Australian Military Forces Directorate of Military Training film USC 265 from the RAEME (Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers) Tra...AWM2018.451.12
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Electrical safety precautions
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Maker: United States Army
US Army training film with Australian Military Forces Directorate of Military Training catalogue number USC 435 from the RAEME (Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers) Training Centre Co...AWM2018.451.7
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[Ephraums family 1942-1954]
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Maker: Ephraums, Margaret Jane
Prior to the outbreak of the war with Japan the Ephraums family lived on Narborough Estate, Sungkai Perak, Malaya where Mr Wilfred Charles Ephraums (father) was a manager of a 2000 acre rubber plantat...F04681
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Field clinometer - secondary battery
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Maker: Bubble and Juice
Australian Military Forces Directorate of Military Training film C 84 from the RAEME (Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers) Training Centre Command Library (copy 'D'). Covers the tests...AWM2018.451.1
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Field Marshal Montgomery's visit to Australian War Memorial & Duntroon
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Lord Montgomery arrives to inspect the Australian War Memorial at Canberra on 2 July 1947. Scenes in Aeroplane Hall and shots around the Pool of Remembrance. Shots around the Memorial and the departur...F10018
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[Firefly crash landing]
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Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Fairey Firefly Mk1 number 281Y of 837 Squadron crashes on landing on HMS Glory. The pilot was unhurt and is seen climbing out of his damaged aircraft. Close up shots of the da...F03463
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General Freyburg's visit to AWM
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Arrival of General and Lady Freyburg at the steps of the Australian War Memorial and their meeting with the Director Colonel Treloar and the curator Mr G Nicholson. Coming through the entrance. Colone...F10019
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[Hainan Island, China, Sarawak and North Borneo 1946- 1947 and 1951]
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Maker: Jackson, Henry Walter Samuel
Lieutenant Colonel Harold Jackson was Contact Officer (rank at the time was Major) in 3 Australian Prisoner of War Contact and Enquiry Unit and carried out the release and repatriation of POW on Haina...F03316
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1. Handing over 113 AGH to Repatriation Department 2. Republic of Korea Presidential Citation awarded to New Zealand 16th Field Regiment 3. Memorial service for King George VI 4. 77 Sqn RAAF. DPR/S/12a,12b,12c.
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1. (1 min 10 sec) Concord NSW 19 May 1947. Handover of 113 AGH to become Concord Repatriation Hospital by Lieutenant General Berryman 2. (1 min 50 sec) Korea Feburary 1952. New Zealand 16th Field Regi...F07536
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1. Her Majesty honours Land Army 2. Nazi junk fetches high prices 3. Remembrance 4. Pakistan troops withdraw from Interview 5. Reunion in Scotland 6. Field Marshal Montgomery in America 7. Army motorcycle trial (Extracts from British Movietone News newsreels)
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1. Her Majesty honours Land Army. 2. Nazi junk fetches high prices. 3. Remembrance. 4. Pakistan troops withdraw from Interview. 5. Reunion in Scotland. 6. Field Marshal Montgomery in America. 7....F03509
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HMAS Sydney deck landings 19 August 1949
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Landings on the aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney by Fairey Firefly aircraft Nos 203, 209, 212, 213, 217, 225, Hawker Sea Fury Nos 105, 114, 118 and a Supermarine Sea Otter amphibian.F04978
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.303-inch Bren LMG - Mechanism
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Maker: Owen Brothers MT Ellis, Norman
Australian Military Forces Directorate of Military Training film AC 6 from the RAEME (Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers) Training Centre Command Library (copy 'G'). By animation, sh...AWM2018.451.8
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Infantry / tank co-operation (platoon- troop level)
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Maker: Army Kinematography Services
A military training film made at the School of infantry. Approved 1946. Produced for Directorate Army Kinematography by Army Kinematography Services (AKS). This film illustrates the co-operation betw...F05101
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Interview with ex-Queensland Air Ambulance crews (By the seats of their pants)
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Maker: Fortitude Productions
Interview conducted for documentary 'By the seats of their pants'.F00252
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Investigation into conditions on board Japanese ship Yoizuki
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Maker: Dolan, Samuel Murray
After the Japanese light cruiser Yoizuki (3500 tons) had left Sydney, NSW, with 1005 Korean and Formosan internees from NSW it was alleged that due to overcrowding, it had become a "hell ship". Due to...F07462
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John Roche: home movie Royal Military College Duntroon c 1944
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Maker: Roche, John Justin
Home movies relating to the service of SX37301 Lieutenant John Justin Roche. Footage includes scenes of cadets at leisure in the grounds of Duntroon Military College and undergoing various types of tr...F11789
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Lord Louis Mountbatten in Canberra
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Maker: Movietone News
Movietone News coverage of the arrival of Lord Louis and Lady Mountbatten in Canberra. Shows the Avro York passenger aircraft which flew from Singapore landing at Fairbairn airport. Lord and Lady Mou...F00183
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Map reading XI: use of prismatic compass
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Maker: Publicity Picture Productions Limited
A military training film supervised by an officer appointed by the General Staff. Produced for the Directorate of Army Kinematography by Publicity Picture Productions Ltd.F02502
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Memorial to fallen unveiled at Tobruk (Australian Diary No 18)
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Maker: McKechnie, Frank Allan, Jack S
The unveiling of the Tobruk Memorial by Lieut-General Sir Leslie Morshead on 30 April 1948. Also shows old Saints Church which is the British Memorial to those lost at sea, the El Alamein Cemetery and...F01740
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2/3 Motor Transport Company and POW Bicycle Camp at Batavia
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Maker: Cressey, Dallas Lowther
Reel 1. Liverpool, NSW January 1941. Roadways of old corrugated iron huts. Free French were being held. General camp scenes. Parade ground with 2/3rd Motor Transport Company and 2/3/ Motor Ambulance C...F03456
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Mr Chifley's visit to Tokyo. Mr Chifley with Allied Consulates.
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Maker: O'Halloran, John Frederick M
During May 1946, the Australian Prime Minister, Mr J B Chifley, visited units under the command of 34 Australian Infantry Brigade in the Kure area. He talked informally with many of the soldiers. Late...F07457
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New Zealand victory parade. "Howe" "Achilles" and "Gambia" in New Zealand waters.
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New Zealand victory parade. "Howe" "Achilles" and "Gambia" in New Zealand waters.F03517
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Nowra aerodrome construction
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Maker: Department of Main Roads
Department of Main Roads (DMR) film covering all the aspects of the construction of Nowra aerodrome. Film begins with a brief history of the war time work of the DMR in airfield construction. Shows th...F03003
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1. Nuremburg 1st day 2. Nuremburg highlights 3. Last pleas at Nuremburg. (Extracts from Movietone News newsreels)
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1. Nuremburg 1st day 2. Nuremburg highlights 3. Last pleas at Nuremburg. (Extracts from Movietone News newsreels)F03513
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Peacetime Airforce offers youth careers
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound newsreel on the life and training of RAAF aircraft apprentices at Ground Training Station (GTS) Wagga, NSW. Aircraft feature are Mustangs and Mosquitos. Also shows Beauforts and Beaufighters...F02647
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RAAF Sikorsky S-51 helicopter demonstration at Box Hill, Victoria.
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RAAF Sikorsky S-51 helicopter demonstration at Box Hill Cricket Ground. If the date range is correct then this would be A80-1 which was the first helicopter in RAAF service, being accepted on October ...F03499
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Radar AA No 3 Mk 7 Pt 3 - operation
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Maker: Unknown
British training film carried by the Australian Military Forces Directorate of Military Training. C 1040 from the RAEME (Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers) Training Centre Command L...AWM2018.451.4
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Rear Admiral Creasey's visit to the Australian War Memorial
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Arrival of Rear Admiral Sir George Creasey at the Australian War Memorial to lay a wreath and inspect the building. The Admiral was met on arrival by Mr H Ward Assistant Director of the Memorial. He t...F10020
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Rear Admiral Moore inspects Rushcutter
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Coverage of the inspection of HMAS Rushcutter, Sydney by Rear Admiral G D Moore, CBE. This inspection was made whilst Rear Admiral Moore held the appointment of Naval Officer in Charge, Sydney.F03737
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Remembrance Day 1947 at the Australian War Memorial
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On Remembrance Day, Sunday November 1947 the Governor General of Australia and Mrs McKell attended a ceremony at the Australian War Memorial to Honour the fallen heroes. Arrival of the Governor Genera...F10025
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Remembrance service, Anzac Day 1948, Capetown South Africa
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Remembrance service, Anzac Day 1948, Capetown South AfricaF10004
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Remembrance Sunday 1946 at Australian War Memorial
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Maker: Thain, Ernest Robertson
On the 10th of November 1946 a simple but impressive ceremony was carried out at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, to commemorate the first Remembrance Sunday in honour of those who gave their li...F10011