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AASC supplying drinking water
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Australian Army Service Corps (AASC) motor water tanker supplies gun crews with drinking water.F01025
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ABCA: the story of Army Bureau of Current Affairs
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Maker: Ministry of Information
This film was produced by the British Ministry of Information for the War Office. Show the formation and operations of Army Bureau of current affairs (ABCA) together with examples of discussion groups...F01284
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A Christmas message from the CAS Air Vice Marshal George Jones
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Maker: Unknown
Christmas greetings to RAAF units serving in forward areas in the South Weat Pacific Area by the Chief of Air Staff Air Vice Marshal George Jones KBE, CB, CBE, DFC.F10176
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Activities of Australian Women's Army Service in Lae New Guinea.
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Maker: Wood, Frederick Sydney
Some 400 girls of the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) arrived in Lae in May 1945. Their job was to release men for service in operational areas. Scenes show girls at work as typists, clerks, dr...F07411
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[Activities of the 16 Battalion AIF New Britain]
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[Activities of the 16 Battalion AIF New Britain]F04772
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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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Aerial view of camp in Palestine
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Palestine, August 1940. Aerial shot from low flying aircraft of army camp; movement left to right. Aerial shot of camp and surrounding country.F01034
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Aerial views of Hamburg (C/B 491)
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Hamburg, Germany circa 1945. An RAF low level reconnaissance film showing the bomb damaged shipyards, industrial and residential areas. The Blohm & Voss shipyard where the latest class of German U-boa...F02626
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A history of the Australian Forces at war 1939-45
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Maker: Legg, Frank Hooper Turney-Smith, Gerald Tycho, Thomas Dearth, Harry Ezard, Alex Harriott, Guy
An Artansa Park Television production made with archival footage from the Australian War Memorial.F10069
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Aichi 99 Navy dive bomber (Aircraft recognition)
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Maker: Analysis Films Ltd
Military Training Film B353 C353 produced in conjunction with the Admiralty and Air Ministry by the Directorate of Army Kinematography, approved July 1943. An AKS production. Photography by Analysis F...F05213
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AIF adopts new training method at Bacchus Marsh (Cinesound News No. 509)
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Bacchus Marsh, Victoria. "The mad half mile", a specially prepared training course has been set up for training soldiers in modern "blitz" methods.F00538
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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 action in Malaya
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Contains scenes from official Department of Information film F01171. Commentary, Charles Lawrence Cinesound Review. Singapore, bomb damage, fire fighting, bren gun carrier, Indian troops in trucks, 25...F00831
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AIF in Adelaide
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Maker: Movietone News
South Australians of the 2nd AIF parade through the Streets of Adelaide. Governor Sir Malcolm Bartley-Harvey takes the salute. The parade almost ends in an enthusiastic riot by the spectators.F01906
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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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AIF march, Sydney (Cinesound News No. 467)
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Sydney sees 6,500 men of the AIF march through the city on Australia Day, Lord Gowrie takes the salute.F00509
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AIF return from Middle East
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
AIF on board troopships in Suez Canal area and at sea.F01217
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AIF route march (Cinesound News No. 460)
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Crossing the Blue Mountains from Ingleburn to Bathurst, 130 miles, Brigadier J.J. Murray, commanding 2/20th infantry brigade issues final orders to his officers. General scenes of the march.F00502
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Air aces ready for Japs
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Line of US Kittyhawk Aircraft run engines, close up of pilots, Lieutenant Reynolds, Captain Hannon, Lieutenant Moorhead and Captain George Kaiser, damaged Japanese drop tank, Japanese bomber wreck, Ki...F00837
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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. Airgraph mail saves space and time 2. MacArthur speaks. (News From Home. No. 82)
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1. (1 min 8 sec) What happens to an airgraph letter and the saving of space and time by using the process 2. (4 min 36 sec) General MacArthur speaks at a dinner with Prime Minister John Curtin at Parl...F00772
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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. 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 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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Air raid shelter becomes swimming pool (News From Home. No. 75)
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Sydney, NSW, 1944. An air raid shelter becomes a swimming pool for local children.F00767
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Alan Moore, as Official Artist, Second World War, interviewed by Michael Grant
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Maker: Moore, Alan
Alan Moore, as Official Artist, Second World War, interviewed by Michael Grant.F11846
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Alan Watson Moore interviewed for "Mud Between the Toes" History Project
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Maker: Moore, Alan Watson (Kanga) 39th Australian Infantry Battalion (1941-43) Association Inc.
Alan Watson Moore interviewed for "Mud Between the Toes" History Project.F08019
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Alert
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N Bierre, Eric Parer, Damien Peter Mocatta, George Houlton Anderson, Alan Frederick
Shows how the air and ground defence systems are linked together. Also how certain defence orders and procedures are followed at unit level. Scenario; Group Captain G Sampson OBE RAF; Cameramen Eric B...F02194
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Allied drive on Italian mainland 1943 (News From Home No. 62)
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The invasion of Italy from Sicily by the 8th and 5th Allied armies. The landing was un-opposed. Shows Montgomery and Eisenhower and includes shots of the invasion of Sicily for comparison.F00755
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Allied leaders seal Italy's fate (News From Home. No. 54)
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Allied leaders discuss the coming battle for Italy at a conference. Montgomery, Churchill and Roosevelt all appear.F00748
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Allied victory
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Maker: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc
An Encyclopaedia Britannica educational film covering the history of the Second World War commencing with the entry of the United States in December 1941. Introduction on camera by Louis L. Snyder, Ph...F03324
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Allies blast Truk
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The largest Japanese Naval base outside of Japan is attacked by carrier aircraft from Admiral Mitscher's TF-58. The attack was co-ordinated with General MacArthur's land operations in New Guinea. Scen...F00802
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All must serve says John Curtin (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 10)
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Prime Minister John Curtin opens 35 million pound loan.F00333
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Alone (World at war)
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Maker: Thames Television International Ltd
Rallied by Churchill, Britain fights on after Dunkirk. The RAF wins the Battle of Britain. The Nazis overun Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete.F10222-04
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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 goes to war in the Pacific (Crusade in the Pacific part 4)
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Maker: March of Time Television
A United States television documentary using historic combat and newsreel footage. Covers the Japanese conquests in the Malaya, Hong Kong and the Netherland East Indies in early 1942. Shows Japanese f...F04958
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American Independence Day parade and march past, Tokyo
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Maker: Military History Section, BCOF
Independence Day was celebrated by the Americans in remembrance of the signing of the US Declaration of Independence. This year's celebration was joined by the men of BCOF as freedom loving peoples of...F07494
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Americans farewell BCOF, Tokyo
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Maker: Unknown
General Sir H C H Robertson is honoured by US Commander General Mark Clark. Opening ceremony at Yokohama Cemetery.F10270
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1. Americans raid Tokyo in B25 Mitchell Bombers from USS "Hornet" 2. AIF jungle training. (News From Home No. 40)
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1. (4 min 18 sec) Tokyo raid by carrier borne Mitchell Bombers from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet on 18 April 1942 led by Major General Doolittle. Admiral Halsey and General Henry H. Arnold also app...F00735
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1. Americans train under MacArthur's eye. 2. Army wins interservices boxing tournament. (Cinesound News No. 573)
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1. (2 min 17 sec) General Douglas MacArthur inspects Americans training in bayonet fighting and unarmed combat 2. (1 min 50 sec) Plenty of action in bouts between Allied servicemen.F00599
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American Stuart light tank (Recognition of AFVs)
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Maker: British Movietone News
A mititary training film produced by Movietone News for the Director of Army Kinematography. This film gives a general description of the Light Tank M3 (British designation General Stuart ), armament ...F05048
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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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A new Germany (World at war)
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Maker: Thames Television International Ltd
The rise of Hitler and the origins of the war.F10222-01
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Angels of war
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Maker: Pike, Andrew
In January 1942 Papua New Guinea became the battle ground for nearly 2 million foreign soldiers. This film documents the experiences of Papua New Guinea's indigenous population during this campaign. S...F10262
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Anti-aircraft ammunition rockets introduction
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Maker: Verity Films Limited Verity Films Limited
Military training film B552 produced for the Directorate of Army Kinematography by Verity Films Ltd, approved February 1943. For instructional purposes this film has been divided into several sections...F05123
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1. Anti-tank gunners hit high spots 2. Navy commemorates 1805. (Cinesound News No. 521)
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1. (1 min 24 sec) NSW, 1941. Men of the 4th Anti-Tank Regiment, Show amazing accuracy with their weapons in their first shoot with live ammunition 2. (1 min 6 sec) Trafalgar Day is celebrated by men o...F00550
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1. Anti-tank guns made in Australia 2. Air training corps has field day. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 14)
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1. (1 min 41 sec) Anti-tank guns made in Australia go through their paces before being sent into battle 2. (2 min 12 sec) Air Training Corps members parade before Wing Commander Elliott, inspect bombe...F00337
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1. Anti-tank practice with new automatic tin hare target 2. Melbourne pays tribute to untried soldiers and seasoned veterans. (Cinesound News No. 515)
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1. (2 min) Puckapunyal, Vic. A section of the new armoured division goes into action in realistic exercises. Manouevres with Bren Gun carriers. A Crusader tank. Vickers medium tanks on gunnery range f...F00544
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Anti-vehicle obstacles: advanced
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Maker: Publicity Films Limited
A military training film produced by Publicity Films Ltd. For the Directorate of Army Kinematography. This film shows the construction of an anti-tank ditch using a 19RB drag-line. After construction ...F05108
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Anti vehicle obstacles: elementary
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Maker: Publicity Films Limited
British military training B146 C122 film produced by Publicity Films Ltd. Photographic visuals supported by animated diagrams and commentary. Various obstacles are shown: ditches, natural and man made...F05078
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Anzac agreement signed at Canberra 21 January 1944 (News From Home No. 74)
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Anzac agreement is signed by New Zealand Prime Minister, Peter Fraser and Australian PM, John Curtin. Dr Evatt speaks before the signing.F00766
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Anzac Day in Australia, 1945
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Maker: Movietone News
A nation pauses in remembrance on Anzac Day. A Movietone newsreel.F00185
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Anzac Day Jerusalem 1940
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
On Anzac Day 1940 a remembrance service was held in the British War Cemetery Jerusalem, then a march through Jerusalem streets by Australian (2/4 Infantry Battalion) and unidentified kilted troops (pr...F01019
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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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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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Armoured parade for war loan (Cinesound News N0. 523)
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50 Bren Gun carriers parade through Sydney streets.F00552
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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 artists, Australian and US painters in the forces (News from home. No. 79)
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Extracts from News from home newsreel No. 79 showing Nora Heysen and American artist, Richard Rosenheinder at work on official war pictures.F00771
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1. Army assault course 2. Training packhorses 3. Battle of the Solomons. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 14 No 1)
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1. (2 min 11 sec) Troops go through assault course with sound effects 2. (1 min 38 sec) Training packhorses 3. (2 min) Solomons battle, transports at sea, barges go into landing, American plane brough...F00375
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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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Army mechanizes
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Maker: Movietone News
A Movietone News item. The 14th Field Artillery Brigade brings up its 4.5 inch howitzers with horses for the last time before mechanization. Location Holsworthy Camp, NSW.F01911
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1. Army postal service 2. Interview with Gene Tunney, world champion boxer 3. Bread for Naples. (News From Home No. 66)
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1. (1 min 26 sec) The story behind the Army postal service 2. (1 min 45 sec) Gene Tunney, former heavyweight boxer, is interviewed by Fox Movietone on his arrival in Australia 3. (1 min 12 sec) The pe...F00759
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Army recuits in Queensland
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Maker: Movietone News
Army recruits of the 11th Field Brigade of the Royal Australian Artillery exercise on a beach in Queensland. The commentator states that they are "....training to fight and to fight clean".F01913
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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 shoots down air force in rugby blitz 2. Diggers return from overseas 3. Girls in Khaki. (Cinesound News No. 564)
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1. (2 min 11 sec) Army versus air force in rugby game 2. (57 sec) Diggers return from overseas and are united with their families 3. (2 min 39 sec) A day in the life of the AWAS. General Plant inspect...F00590
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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. 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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Army trains in rubber boats. (Cinesound News No. 522)
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Rubber boats made in Australia are used in river crossing exercise.F00551
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Army visit to Bathurst Island and Melville Island
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Maker: Crispe, Ronald Roy
This film was taken by WX30779 Lieutenant Ronald Roy Crispe, Darwin Coast Artillery AIF, while on visit with a Darwin Water Transport vessel to Catholic missions at Bathurst Island and Melville Island...F03714
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Arthur Sandell interviewed as a Flight Lieutenant, 43 Squadron RAAF by Dr Geoff Haw
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Maker: Sandell, Arthur Kenneth Haw, Geoff
Arthur Sandell interviewed as a Flight Lieutenant, 43 Squadron RAAF by Dr Geoff Haw.F08901
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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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Assault on Salamaua
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
15 Brigade Headquarters at Missim showing VX33 Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) Henry George Guinn of East Malvern VIC, in conference with his staff. Soldier moves to forward Bren Gun position overlooking...F01866
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ATC's [Air Training Corps] birthday parade
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Air Training Corps (ATC) 21 Squadron, Melbourne University Squadron, held a second birthday parade. The Director of Air Training Corps, Group Captain R.R. Radford, M.M. inspected the parade, took the ...F02033
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A tribute to war cameraman Damien Parer
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A Channel 9 Brisbane This Day Tonight special report on the life and work of Department of Information cameraman Damien Parer. Includes interviews conducted by Spencer Jolly with Bill Carty, Ken G H...F10303
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Attack on Australia (Anzac TV Series)
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Maker: Artransa Park Television Pty Ltd
Attack on Australia (Anzac TV Series)F10034-26
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Audrey Kennon interviewed for "Girls' Own War Stories" documentary, 27 November 2009.
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Maker: Kennon, Audrey
Filmed by Jenny Ainge, GIRLS' OWN WAR STORIES is a one hour documentary that tells the truth about Australian women in World War Two; a war that changed and liberated Australian women's lives for five...F09160
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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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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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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 (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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Australia at war (March of time Vol 7 No 8)
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Maker: March of Time
A March of Time newsreel giving an overview of Australia, its people, climate, economic resources, education, cities and political system. Australia's contribution to the European war and the prospect...F01452
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Australia at war on the home front 1941-09-20 (Fox Movietone News Vol. 12. No. 40)
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1. (1 min 40 sec) Making Paravanes in a naval workshop 2 (1 min 20 sec) Manufacture and testing 25-pounder gunF00311
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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. 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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Australia makes anti-tank guns (Cinesound News No. 557)
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The manufacture of 2 Pounder anti-tank guns in the General Motors Factory Woodville South Australia. Commentator states that reports from America stating that Australia is self-sufficient in arms prod...F00583
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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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Australian airmen 1939-1945
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Maker: Commonwealth Film Unit Unknown
Produced by the Commonwealth Film Unit for the information of officers in the Repatriation Department. Bulk of the material supplied from the AWM film collection.F10160
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1. Australian built Austen gun is hard hitting 2. US carrier in spectacular sea - air battle. (News From Home. No. 24)
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Maker: News from Home
Extracts from News From Home No. 241. (1 min 38 sec) The Austen gun, an Australian adaption of the Sten, goes through its paces at Port Kembla, NSW. 2. (3 min 10 sec) An American aircraft carrier is s...F00720
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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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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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Australians advance in New Guinea
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Ioribaiwa Ridge, New Guinea, Australians advance and take first Japanese prisoners. Hauling 25 pounder guns on Kokoda Track, C-47 Dakota aircraft drop supplies, Corporal John Bromwich, Davis Cup tenni...F00820
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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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Australians at war: RAN
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Maker: Film Australia
Audio visual program with the theme of the Royal Australian Navy's role in the 1939-1945 war. Produced for display in the AWM's galleries. Consists of photographs and colour graphics with voice overs...F10254
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Australians evacuate Tobruk
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Maker: Army Cinematograph Section
News item of Australians' evacuation of Tobruk produced by AIF Cinema Unit, including scenes of troops marching, firing weapons, packing gear, boarding trucks and ship board scenes. There are also sho...F00825
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1. Australian shipyards launch latest Corvette "Bombay" 2. Services hold boxing championships in Melbourne. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 3)
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1. (1 min 26 sec) Latest Corvette "Bombay" inspected by Lord Wakehurst, Lady Wakehurst performs launching ceremony. "Bombay" was built in Australia for the Indian Navy. 2. (2 min 13 sec) Inter-service...F00326
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Australians remember
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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