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Aborigines are true soldiers of the King (Cinesound News No. 488)
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Maker: Cinesound
Wangaratta Camp, Victoria. An entire squad of Aboriginal men, the only one of its kind in the AIF.F00519
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AIF faces Japs in Malaya
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Maker: Cinesound
Contains scenes from official Department of Information films F01158 & F01159. AIF in Malaya, Brewster Buffalo Aircraft, burning and blowing up buildings. Commentary, Charles Lawrence Cinesound Review...F00830
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AIF in Palestine marathon
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Maker: Cinesound
AIF men in 8 kilometre cross country run near Gaza. Commentary, Charles Lawrence Cinesound Review. (See also F01144 for Department of information unedited footage.)F00832
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1. Air Force ballet 2. New strength in our air arm 3. Fighting men's haven. (Cinesound News No. 465)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News newsreel Number 465. 1. (57 sec) RAAF male ballet rehearsing for a show 2. (1 min 54 sec) Features Fairey Battle aircraft 3. (3 min) Sydney, Anzac buffet in Hyde park fea...F00507
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1. Airmen and women march through Melbourne. 2. Australian built ship for Indian Navy. 3. Dutch delegates watch Australia takes wings. (Cinesound News No. 520)
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Maker: Cinesound
1. (1 min 4 sec) RAAF and WAAAF march through Melbourne 2. (1 min 14 sec) Lady Gowrie christens first ship built in Australia for the Indian Navy, HMIS Punjab 3. (1 min 39 sec) Important Dutch press d...F00549
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Airmen train in hard school
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Maker: Cinesound
News item showing RAAF trainees at various types of physical training including a five mile cross-country race.F02024
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Air raid (ABC of ARP)
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Maker: Cinesound
An Air Raid Precaution (ARP) instruction film produced for the Department of Home Security by Cinesound Production Pty Ltd with technical instruction by the National Emergency Services of NSW. Live ac...F01245
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Air Training Corps
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound production for the RAAF with the co-operation of the Department of Civil Aviation. The story deals with some of the major aspects of the Air Training Corps (ATC) training and activities. Ide...F02204
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1. Armoured division on parade 2. Newsbriefs: Lady Gowrie in Sydney - General Macarthur and PM in Melbourne. (Cinesound News No. 556)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound newsreel No. 556. 1. (1 min 46 sec) American tanks demonstrate before a big parade which is inspected by Generals Blamey and Robertson 2. (35 sec) Sydney, NSW. Lady Gowrie tac...F00582
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Army Centurion tanks in realistic manoeuvres (AC120a)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extract from a Cinesound newsreel item. Commences with a survey of the use of tanks by the Australian Army in the 1939-1945 war and the different roles played tanks in the desert and the jungle campai...F03009
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1. Army tests compressed foods 2. RAAF departure. (Cinesound News No. 517)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News newsreel No. 517. 1. (1 min 44 sec) Food briquettes compressed under a compression of one ton contain a square meal. May be the answer of iron rations for paratroops. Vic...F00546
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1. "Assassinated" Philippines President here 2. AIF returns. (Cinesound News No. 544)
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Maker: Cinesound
1. (1 min) Dr Manuel Kathong arrives in Melbourne and is greeted by General Douglas MacArthur 2. (8 min) AIF returns to Australia from the Middle East. General Allen keeps fit playing deck tennis.F00570
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Aussies in Burma
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound newsreel item on Australians serving with RAF P-47 Thunderbolt and Hawker Hurricane equipped squadrons in Burma. Newsreel compiled from F02143 and F02142F10195
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Australia at battle stations (Cinesound News No. 532)
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Maker: Cinesound
Australian defence forces go to battle stations, manning coastal defences, beaches and strategic points. Trenches are made ready for civilians against bomb attack.F00561
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Australia at war in Korea (Cinesound News No. 983)
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Maker: Thompson, Geoffrey Whiteman, Bede Cinesound
Cinesound newsreel circa 1950 covering operations of No. 77 Squadron RAAF. Item opens with shots of the two cameramen, G. Thompson and B. Whiteman. Scenes of No. 77 Squadron RAAF at Iwakuni Southern H...F01991
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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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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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Australians assault Japanese in Halmeheras
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound Newsreel on RAN ships and units of the 1st Tactical Air Force, RAAF in operations at Morotai in the Halmaheras. Air Commodore Cobby watches operations from ship's bridge. Features Beaufighte...F00823
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1. Australians for Singapore 2. News briefs, Melbourne, 1941-11. (Cinesound News No. 486)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News newsreel No. 486. 1. (1 min 10 sec) Australian troops go aboard transports in Sydney Harbour en route to Singapore 2. (3 min) AIF parade through Melbourne streets, RAAF b...F00517
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1. AWAS take a rise out of Jack Davey 2. Giant Canadian spruce trees for Mosquito Bombers 3. Crisis in Parliament - Curtin speaks. (News From Home. No 43)
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Maker: Cinesound
1. (2 min 49 sec) Jack Davey conducts a quiz session for AWAS (Movietone) 2. (1 min) Canadian spruce trees are felled to make Mosquito aircraft (Movietone) 3. (2 min 14 sec) Prime Minister Curtin spea...F00738
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Battle in Korea (Cinesound News No. 986)
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound newsreel circa 1950. Coverage of the Communist advance on Taegu. Shows fleeing civilians and South Korean troops. USAF spotter aircraft Cessnas and Texans. Pilots at Taegu. P-51 Mustangs arm...F01993
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Beaufort bomber takes air
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Maker: Cinesound
News item on the assembly of a Beaufort bomber. Aircraft leaving factory and test flight.F02025
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Bill Littlewood joins the army (News From Home No. 18) (Cinesound Review)
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Maker: Cinesound
Suburban Kiddie, Bill Littlewood, drills with soldiers.F00714
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Blackout (ABC of ARP)
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Maker: Cinesound
Produced for the Department of Home Security by Cinesound Productions Pty Ltd with Technical direction by the National Emergency Services of NSW. Introduced by Stuart F. Browne a London ARP expert. An...F01676
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Bombers away
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound Review news item showing ground crews arming Beaufort bombers. WAAAF radio operators and parachute packers. Aircrews being instructed on abandoning aircraft procedures and ground control of ...F02018
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Boomerang
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound news item showing test flight of Boomerang aircraft at the Commomwealth Aircraft Works. The test was watched by crowds of workers from the factory at Fishermans Bend, Victoria.F02022
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Boomerangs in sensational flying
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Maker: Cinesound
Newsreel item on a test flight of the Commonwealth Boomerang fighter aircraft. Pilot boards aircraft; takes off; several shots of aircraft manoeuvring during test flight.F02007
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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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Cinesound Review 1. Wavell and Pownell in Malaya 2. Jap plane in Singapore
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Maker: Cinesound
1. (28 sec) Malaya, General Sir Archibald Wavell, Allied Supreme Commander SWPA meets with General Sir Henry Pownell, British Commander in Chief Singapore (See also F01160 Department of Information u...F00833
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1. City goes gay in patriotic cause 2. More internees arrive 3. Empire Air Training Scheme - RAAF men for Canada (Cinesound News No. 466)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound newsreel No. 466. 1. (1 min 28 sec) Melbourne turns on a pageant in aid of war funds 2. (57 sec) Internees arrive in Sydney and board a train to be carried to a Prisoner of War...F00508
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Civil Construction Corps is the army behind the army (Cinesound News No. 555)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News newsreel No. 555. On 12 February 1942 it was decided to turn twenty square miles of virgin country into an aerodrome. In just seventy one days the first plane landed at th...F00581
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1. Climb aboard the carrier - and you're in the AIF 2. For women in uniform. (Cinesound News No. 502)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound newsreel No. 502. Item 1. (44 sec) Brigadier General Lloyd has a few words to say on recruiting. Item 2. (58 sec) Sydney, NSW. three thousand women on parade, Lady Gowrie take...F00531
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Comedian Bob Hope in Australia (News From Home No. 103)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extract from from News From Home newsreel compile No. 103. Bob Hope, world renowned American comedian, with a concert party after their return from the Pacific Islands, interviewed by Cinesound.F00786
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Curtin talks to nation (Cinesound News No 552)
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Maker: Cinesound
The Prime Minister, John Curtin, speaks to Australia and the world about Australia's war effort, and good friendship to the world.F00578
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1. Darwin diggers have definite opinion 2. On guard home guard. (Cinesound News No. 526)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News newsreel No 526. 1. (1 min 42 sec) AIF men back from Darwin have a few grouches to make about not being sent overseas 2. (1 min 55 sec) Home guard training with Molotov C...F00555
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1. Darwin - Singapore line 2. Consul-General for Japan speaks (Cinesound News No 489)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News newsreel No 489 1. (1 min 58 sec) Documentary showing the problems facing Australia in her near north, beginning in Darwin, travelling through Batavia and the Netherlands ...F00520
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"D" Day, airmen return home
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound Review newsreel item on the return of unidentified RAAF personnel from Britain.F02014
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Decompression chamber
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound item showing RAAF pilots undergoing training in a decompression chamber. Shows the pilot's reactions to lack of oxygen at high altitude. This demonstration was under the control of a RAAF me...F02091
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Diary of Diana
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Maker: Cinesound
A Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) recruiting propaganda film produced by Cinesound for the Australian National Films Council. Shows a woman in civilian occupation, her entry into the WA...F01355
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Diggers messages home
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Maker: Cinesound
War's spotlight on Palestine. Cheerful Aussies say "Hello homefolks". Commentary, Charles Lawrence, Cinesound Review. (See also F01079 for unedited Department of Inforamtion footage.)F00829
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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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1. Doughboy talks to America about Australia 2. Japs harder to beat than Huns. (Cinesound News No. 579)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News No. 579. 1. (4 min 43 sec) Private Garlan C. Mills of Akron, Ohio, USA. Has just returned from an operational area. He lands in Sydney on a Sunday and faces the likelihood...F00604
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Fifth air lift: RAAF families for Malaya
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound newsreel on the fifth air lift to Butterworth, Malaya of RAAF families. The women and children were flown out on the DC-4 'Malaya Trader' from Kingsford Smith airport, Sydney.F10189
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Fighter aces thrill with spectacular flying
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Maker: Cinesound
A Cinesound Review news item showing Kittyhawks in a training flight over airfield. Commentator mentions fighter pilots Rawlinson, Fisher, Truscott and Warne. Truscott is the only one that has been id...F02021
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First flight: delta wing in air
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound newsreel on the first flight in Australia of the British Avro Delta 707 jet aircraft. The pilot for the flight was Squadron Leader Cousins. The aircraft was in Australia for high speed exper...F10186
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First inter-allied services boxing tournament
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Maker: Davey, Jack, (John Andrew) Cinesound
Coverage of the first inter Allied services boxing tournament held at Melbourne Stadium.F10185
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For Korea. Anzacs are coming: first troops leave for Korea. Aussies arrive in Japan (Cinesound News No. 985)
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound newsreel circa 1950. 1st item. For Korea: Australian Army trains in Japan. Hiro Japan 3 RAR HQ troops being kitted out with uniforms and tin hats. Jeeps and trailers are to be the main metho...F01992
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"G" for George is veteran aircraft
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Maker: Cinesound
A Cinesound newsreel item on Avro Lancaster "G" for George arriving at Brisbane. Several shots of crew standing near aircraft. Commentator mentions "G" for George will be eventually be exhibited at th...F02013
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Give us this day
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Maker: Cinesound
A Cinesound propaganda short on the theme of doing without produced for the Department of Information and released by the National Films Council. Title over dolly out of church service - sound track i...F07052
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Grand RAAF job: last courier to Japan (Cinesound Review)
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Maker: Cinesound
The fourth item on this Cinesound Review newsreel is coverage of the last DC-3 courier flight to BCOF in Japan by DC-3 A65-71 of 86 Wing RAAF. The Dakota left from Schofields airfield, west of Sydney...F03609
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Greatest Anzac Day in history
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound newsreel coverage of Anzac Day ceremonies at Sydney 25 April 1938.F04643
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HMAS Sydney comes home (Cinesound news No 485)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound news No 485. Welcome home for HMAS Sydney and her crew, civic welcome and speech by Captain Collins. (See also F01066 Department of Information unedited footage)F01465
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Huge crowds view RAAF march, Brisbane
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound Review newsreel covering a RAAF march through the streets of the City of Brisbane. Sir James Blair, KCMG., Lieutenant-Governor of Queensland, took the salute at the march past.F02089
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I'm spending Christmas with the old folks (Cinesound News No. 527)
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Maker: Cinesound
Popular song, "I'm spending Christmas with the old folks". Soloists Private Ken Howard and Gwen Cordingley with the Eastern Command band conducted by Warrant Officer Pearson.F00556
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Japanese blasted out of Papua by Allies
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound newsreel using segments from Department of Information films F01847 & F01848 with commentary by Jack Davey. Shows mortars firing, Wirraway aircraft, General Vasey and United States officers,...F00824
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Jump: Australia's paratroops in training
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound newsreel on the joint Army and RAAF Parachute Training Wing at Williamtown, NSW. Shows some of the training apparatus used by the trainees and their first jump made from a RAAF Dakota transp...F10187
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Lae falls to Australians
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound newsreel story of the capture of Lae by 7th and 9th Divisions. (See also F01862 & F01860 for original Department of Information footage.)F01616
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Lancaster bomber here 'Q' for Queenie
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Maker: Cinesound
Lancaster bomber 'Q' for Queenie piloted by Flight Lieutenant Peter S Isaacson, DFC, DFM, departed from Britain 22 May 1943 arriving Australia 4 June 1943 via Atlantic, Canada and the Pacific. The fli...F02001
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MacArthur speaks
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound newsreel item on General Douglas MacArthur's speech at an official dinner held at Parliament House Canberra. Shows MacArthur's arrival by silver B-17 Flying Fortress bomber at Canberra airpo...F10198
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Melbourne hails AIF men (Cinesound News No. 483)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound newsreel No.483 . Four thousand two hundred diggers of the 2nd AIF march six abreast through Melbourne streets, the Governor-General Lord Gowrie takes the salute.F00514
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1000 men and women jammed on a tiny destroyer
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound newsreel on the embarkation at Sydney of two thousand six hundred Japanese ex-internees and POWs aboard the Daikai Maru for return to Japan. The Daikai Maru's normal accommodation was for th...F10184
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Milne Bay
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N Cinesound
Cinesound newsreel extract showing the first pictures to come out of Milne Bay. (See also F01216 for Department of Information unedited footage.)F01614
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Mines above ground
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Maker: Cinesound Makin, Norman John Oswald
A Cinesound production for the Department of Munitions. The mines referred to in the title are scrap materials. Norman Makin urges workers to preserve the principles of saving scrap metals and materia...F01564
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New careers: women of the RAAF
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound newsreel on some of the 30 different types of jobs performed by women in the RAAF. Also shows the sporting and social activities offered by a career in the RAAF.F10188
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1. North Queensland front line 2. Boy drum wizard startles Americans. (Cinesound News No. 546)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News No. 546. 1. (2 min 12 sec) Preparations for the defence of Australia 2. (2 min 8 sec) Five year old boy drummer swings the sticks for the Americans.F00572
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Opening of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound production on the opening of the Australian War Memorial Canberra.F00180
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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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Pilots pot pigeons for practice
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound newsreel showing airmen practicing shooting with various types of weapons - Browning type machine-guns, Thompson sub-machine guns, pistols and clay pigeon shooting with double barrelled shot...F02042
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Promising experiment: new aircraft fire-rescue tender
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound newsreel extract on a new Australian fire tender designed to rescue trapped passengers by cutting a hole in an aircrafts fuselage to create an escape access. The fire tender was demonstrated...F10175
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RAAF convoy busters
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound news item featuring an attack on enemy shipping by Bristol Beaufighters of No. 455 Squadron RAAF. Commentator also mentions RAF pilots attacking enemy rocket sites. A few shots of pilots and...F02015
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RAAF creates college for young airmen
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Maker: Thompson, Geoffrey Cinesound
Cinesound Review newsreel item on the RAAF College Point Cook Victoria.F02275
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RAAF men depart for overseas
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound Review news item on cadet pilots, Empire Air Training Scheme, (EATS) at a pre-embarkation parade. After the parade they are transported by bus to wharves. Airmen aboard troopship.F02098
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1. Red Cross train brings Darwin wounded 2. Aboriginal children refugees from bombs 3. Nurses escape from Singapore 4. American Admiral of Anzac area interviewed. (Cinesound News No. 542)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News newsreel No 542. 1. Red Cross train brings Darwin wounded. Interviews with patients on their arrival in the South. 2. Aboriginal children refugees from bombs. Children fro...F00568
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1. Reinforcements for the heroes of Bardia 2. Raider victims reach Australia - exclusive pictures and interviews. (Cinesound News No. 480)
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Maker: Cinesound
1. (2 min 10 sec) Australian troops arrive at a Middle East port., others entrain at the Brisbane Railway Station, boarding ferries in Sydney Harbour to go to troopship 2. (7 min) 496 Victims of an en...F00511
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Return journey
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Maker: Cinesound
A Cinesound production made to encourage Australians to subscribe in the First Victory Loan. A Padre visits the Davidson Family to console the mother and wife of an Australian soldier killed at the fr...F01881
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Royal Australian Artillery
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound newsreel on the work and equipment of the Royal Australian Artillery. Shows the 6 inch guns of the coastal artillery, field artillery's 25 pounder and 5.5 inch guns. The work of the artiller...F10190
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Royal Australian Corps of Signals DPR/S/13
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound News item showing members of Royal Australian Corps of Signals training in classrooms and in the field. Transmitters, receivers, 'Hi Fi', teleprinters, portable telephone exchange and other ...F07537
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Saving airmen from the sea
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Maker: Cinesound
A newsreel item showing co-operation between RAN and RAAF in air/sea rescue work. RAN officer instructing RAAF air sea rescue crews; air/sea rescue operation room, air/sea rescue launches leaving base...F02003
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Schoolboys aid war effort (Cinesound News No. 513)
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Maker: Cinesound
Boys of Graham Street State School, Port Melbourne, spend spare time making camouflage nets for the army whilst at Saint Vincent De Paul Orphanage, South Melbourne. Practice hand grenades are being ma...F00542
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Searchlight on Japan
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Maker: Cinesound
Forward: Japan under Allied Occupation remains an important factor in world politics but the man in the street knows little of Japan today. This presentation essentially an Australian point of view m...F03522
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1. Services girls swim at Bondi championships 2. Roosevelt and Churchill meet at Casablanca 3. Joe E. Brown says a mouthful. (News From Home. No. 30)
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Maker: Cinesound Movietone News
1. (1 min 8 sec) Women's services swimming championships are held at Bondi baths. Commentary by Jack Davey, Movietone. 2. (2 min 12 sec) The historic meeting between Churchill and Roosevelt at Casabla...F00725
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Sky fighters
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Maker: Cinesound
RAAF recruiting propaganda item, featuring Group Captain A.H. Cobby as commentator. Two shots of Group Captain Cobby; the balance of visuals are of various aircraft on ground and in flight, a few shot...F02059
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Sling the timber is new RAAF drill
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound Review news item on RAAF physical training instructors training, utilizing a large log to each group.F02019
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Spitfires over Australia
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Maker: Cinesound
A Cinesound newsreel with main theme of Dr H V Evatt's visit to the USA and Great Britain to obtain Spitfires for the defence of Australia. Item starts with shots of the Battle for Britain, October 1...F02006
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Stores and transport
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Maker: Cinesound
A Ministry of Munitions presentation produced by Cinesound. This is the story of the Munitions Stores and Transport Depots of which there is one in every capital city and hundreds of smaller stores in...F01593
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1. Survivors from torpedoed ships reach safety 2. US troops honour fallen comrades on Memorial Say 3. Subs shell Sydney. (Cinesound News No. 554)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News No. 554. 1. (1 min 43 sec) Interview with the survivors of the Iron Chieftain, first ship to be sunk off the NSW coast on the night of 3/4 June 1942. 2. (1 min 36 sec) So...F00580
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Tahitian fighters can Hula too!
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound newsreel item on the resting in Australia of Tahitians who served for the past three years with the Free French Army in the Middle East. Shows the men singing and dancing.F10197
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The Light Horse rides again (Cinesound News No. 493)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extract from Cinesound newsreel No. 493. More than two thousand five hundred mounted men of the 2nd Cavalry Division parade through the streets. The salute is taken by the Governor, Sir Winston Dugan ...F00524
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The Men of Timor
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter Cinesound
Cinesound production of the Damien Parer film on Sparrow Force (2/2 Independent Company AIF), Australian guerillas marooned on the island of Timor during Japanese occupation. Identified personnel are:...F01615
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They march again (Cinesound Review No. 687)
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Maker: Cinesound
They march again (Cinesound Review No. 687)F03516
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They march again (News From Home. No. 35)
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Maker: Cinesound News from Home
Anzac Day ceremonies and crowds, commentary by Squadron Leader George Randall, DFC and BAR.F00730
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1. Thousands pay homage at funeral of General George 2. Darwin's Burma Road, first pictures of overland supply route. (Cinesound News No. 549)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News newsreel No 549. 1. (1 min 25 sec) Melbourne, Brigadier General George of the U.S. who met his death in an air crash, is buried with full military honours at Springvale C...F00575
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1. USA journalists give us the once-over 2. Making gold bar to aid war funds 3. Brisbane, wartime - but the show is still the thing 4. Melbourne, Ajax opens his campaign 5. With the AIF abroad, series No.9 (Cinesound Review No. 461)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound news No. 46. 1. (3 min) Ten American journalists come to get first hand information about Australia's war effort 2. (1 min 50 sec) Sydney Red Cross collects gold articles which...F01468
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VC hero decorated (Cinesound News No. 570)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extract from Cinesound newsreel No. 570. The late 402263 Pilot Officer Ronald Wilkins Taylor, awarded Distinguished Flying medal presented to next of kin Mrs D F Taylor. WX2437 Corporal James Heathe...F00596
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Victory in Papua
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Maker: Cinesound
Extract from Cinesound Newsreel showing the use of General Stuart Tanks in jungle fighting. Scenes around Buna, Buna mission, General Blamey and General Eichelberger, Cape Endaiadere. (See also F01811...F01645
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Volunteer Air Observer Corps [VAOC]
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound item showing the functions of the Volunteer Air Observer Corps (VAOC). observers sight supposed enemy bombers and report to a central control by telephone; course of bombers plotted; fighter...F02095
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WAAAFs do real war job
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound newsreel item showing women of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Airforce (WAAAF) performing various aircraft maintenance duties. The WAAAF's are shown working on Liberator bombers and Spitfi...F02041
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WAAAFs guide homing aircraft
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Maker: Cinesound
This item shows women of the Women's Auxilary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) training in Radio Direction Finding (RDF) equipment and the operation of RDF by guiding a fog-bound Beaufort bomber back to b...F02002
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WAAAFs step out
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound news item on a parade of women of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) at the Melbourne University Oval, Carlton Victoria, on 15 November 1942. Lady Zara Gowrie Air Commandant ...F02044
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WAAAF's study culinary art
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound item on women of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force WAAAF at Victorian Food Trade School being instructed in the preparation of food and the trade of butchering.F02092