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Admiral Halsey reports (Movietone News)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Newsreel extract circa 1945. Washington DC, Admiral William 'Bull' Halsey speaks to camera on taking command of the sea from the Japanese.F04908
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1. Air League Cadets march, Melbourne 2. Hurricane Aircraft 3. RAAF boxing 4. Australia's new armoured division in the making. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 12 No. 38)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
1. (39 sec) Air League Cadets march to the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne 2. (1 min 11 sec) Hurricane fighter aircraft in flight, and inspection by Group Captain Arthur Henry Cobby 3. (1 min 52 sec)...F00309
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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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America strikes at the heart of Japan (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 19)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Japanese houses, palaces, crowds, Emperor, US bombers, Japanese tank burning.F00342
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Anzacs march again
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
A propaganda short produced by Movietone News for the Department of Information on the events leading up to the outbreak of the 1939-1945 war and Australia's part in the early stages.F01257
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1. Armoured Division parade in Melbourne 2. RAAF in Canada (Fox Movietone News Vol. 12 No. 46)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News newsreel Vol. 12 No. 46. 1. (1 min 16 sec) Melbourne, Armoured Division parade in support of war loan 2. (3 min 52 sec) RAAF trainees of the Empire Air Training Schem...F00317
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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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1. Army specialists learn latest in battle technique 2. Queensland, 25 pounder practice. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 31)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 31. 1. (2 min 8 sec) Field engineers practice mobile bridging with box girder at School of Military Engineering, Liverpool, NSW. 2. (58 sec) Queensland, 25...F00353
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1. Aussies return from Japanese occupied countries, yachting training for future airmen 2. Women at war - WAAAF (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 22)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 22 1. (1 min 43 sec) Aussies return from Japanese occupied countries, how or when, nobody tells. Yachting training for future airmen (air training corps) 2...F00345
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Austerity for victory (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 48)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Prime Minister John Curtin launches one hundred million pound war loan. Lord Gowrie takes the salute at Perth march to commemorate the occasion. Sydney has big parade also.F00370
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Australia at war (Fox Movietone News Vol. 12 No. 30)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 12 No 30. Camouflage nets being woven in Sydney by members of the National Defence League. Miss Kay McDowell watches the weaving. School boys, policemen and ex 19...F00301
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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. Australian engineers help build military railway 2. Owen Gun passes test 3. Thanksgiving Day (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 51)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
1. (1 min 44 sec) AIF, British and South African Troops construct Syrian link in strategic Middle East railroad 2. (1 min 57 sec) Owen Gun is demonstrated by the inventor 3. (43 sec) Thanksgiving day ...F00373
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1. Australian inventor creates new miracle gun 2. Bren carrier manufacture, Newport Vic. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 12 No. 43)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
1. (1 min 38 sec) Mr E. Owen demonstrates his sub-machine gun to the Minister for the army, Mr Spender and army chiefs . 2. (1 min 42 sec) Manufacture of Bren carriers at the railway workshops, Newpor...F00314
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1. Australian war loan has America's practical support 2. Australian heroes receive medals for gallantry 3. What rubber means to Australia 4. Bushmen answer call for mounted VDC guerillas. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 27)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
1. (1 min 50 sec) US Air Corps and nursing units parade at Sydney rally, Colonel Harry Cullings, CMG of American Army speaks 2. (48 sec) Governor-General decorates Lieutenant Arthur Roden Cutler with ...F00350
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Blamey returns to report on war situation (Fox Movietone News Vol. 12 No 48)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
General Sir Thomas Albert Blamey arriving at Rose Bay, Sydney by empire flying boat and being greeted by Lieutenant-General Vernon Ashton Hobart Sturdee North Africa and other officers. Cuts back to G...F00319
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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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8 Division AIF and RAAF march through Sydney
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Movietone News coverage of the city march by units of the 8th Division 2nd AIF and RAAF prior to deployment Malaya.F03389
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1. Dr Evatt tells how victory can be won 2. Motion picture entertainment comes to camps 3. Australia looks after disabled heroes 4. RAAF fighters scan the skies in Kittyhawks. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 29)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 291. (1 min 16 sec) Dr Evatt comes home from visit to America and talks about winning the victory 2. (1 min 18 sec) Mobile cinema in army camps 3. (1 min 3...F00351
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Fall of Manila
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Movietone newsreel item comprising combat footage shot by United States Signal Corps photographers. Shows the intense street fighting in the battle for Manila. The city in flames from fires started by...F10200