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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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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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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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1939 and All That!
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Maker: Poppleton, James
An amateur filmmaker's perspective of WW2 from the home front, incorporating newspaper headlines from 1939 to war's end; shots of Melbourne neighbourhoods and communities engaged war time activities s...F04905
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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. 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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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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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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Australia looks to the air (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 4)
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A short history of the supply of aircraft for the RAAF and aircraft production in Australia.F00327
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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 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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Back the attack
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Maker: Owen Brothers MT
An animated cartoon film produced by the Owen Brothers MT to encourage the purchase of war saving stamps and certificates and subscription to the 4th Liberty Loan.F01331
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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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Curtin PM 3rd war loan
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The Prime Minister the Right Honourable John Curtin addresses Australians on the need to contribute to the war effort by investing in the 3rd Liberty Loan.F01430
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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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Digger's pets find Good Samaritan (Fox Movietone News Vol. 12 No. 50)
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Mrs Campbell Cowie's soldiers dog home and boarding kennels. Shows kennels with dog's name and owner's name on each kennel; A short interview with Mrs Campbell Cowie.F00321
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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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Food production. Coal and rubber production. Aircraft production and pilot training [Extracts from Japanese newsreels]
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Maker: Nippon Eigasha
1. Item on food production showing rice cultivation, poultry production and fishing. Japanese housewives shopping for food and children harvesting vegetables. Various scenes of Japanese city life. ...F06941
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1. Forde meets US troops on parade 2. Yes. They're tough these guerillas 3. Aliens become Aussies in AIF melting pot (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 17)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 171. (1 min 25 sec) Army Minister Francis Forde and Australian officers inspect us troops on parade. Forde addresses the men. 2. (1 min 57 sec) Instructor ...F00340
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Fourth Liberty Loan
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Australian cinema trailer to encourage investment in the Fourth Liberty Loan. Features animated cartoon characterization of Adolf Hitler.F01417
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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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Glimpses of Japan. Brunei. Tourist travelogue [Extracts from Japanese newsreels]
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1. Glimpses of Japan presented by the Board of Tourist Industry. A travelogue on Japan in English. 2. General Maeda ? visits the Sultan of Brunei. 3. Tourist travelogue showing Osaka, Kobe, the Inl...F06943
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Home fires (World at war)
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Maker: Thames Television International Ltd
Britain bombed but not invaded: the civilian's war.F10222-15
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1. Important arrivals [Major-General Gordon Bennett] 2. Army appetite speeds jam production 3. Wireless air gunners learn from the ground up. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 12)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 12 1. (54 sec) Major-General Bennett returns from Singapore after his escape 2. (1 min 32 sec) Making Marmalade jam in a factory 3. (2 min 12 sec) Wireless...F00335
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1. Important arrivals 2. Usherettes learn to handle fire bombs 3. Army champs in heavy workout. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 5)
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1. (1 min 22 sec) Major-Generals Murray, Clowes and Savige back from Middle East. Major-General Odlum, Canadian High Commissioner to Australia. 2. (2 min 32 sec) Sydney, theatre usherettes learn how t...F00328
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Industrial Japan: heavy industry [Extracts from Japanese newsreels]
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1. Industrial Japan produced and presented by the Bunka Shinkokai (Society for International Cultural Relations) English language inter-titles. 2. Item on the production of artillery munitions. (Japa...F06942
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Inside the Reich (World at war)
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Maker: Thames Television International Ltd
Germany, homeland of the master race: the civilians' war.F10222-16
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Interview with Athol Meers and stills (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Althol Meers worked in a factory at Mascot Aerodrome during the war assembling Beaufort Bombers. He was rejected the three times he tried to enlist in the Army on Medical grounds. He talks in great d...F04085
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Interview with Beryl Haley (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Haley was a young girl when war was declared. In her interview she talks about her families reaction to the announcement of war. She also talks about the two Japanese POWs that were sent to her ...F04089
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Interview with Brian (Bud) Loughry (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Bud Loughry was a young boy growing up in Manly during the war, in his interview he talks about many aspects of life as a young boy growing up in Sydney during these times. He discusses the bombing o...F04093
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Interview with Dorothy Hewett and stills (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Hewett was sixteen at the outbreak of war. She became a pacifist and clashed with her father who was an Anzac. She joined the Communist Party at the age of nineteen as a rebellious act. She commen...F04157
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Interview with Dorothy Loughry (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Dorothy Loughry lived in Manly during the war and recalls the changes in the area across the duration of the war. Being a young girl she remembers the air raid drills at school and seeing the convoys...F04092
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Interview with George Kendall (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr George Kendall worked as a projectionist at the Radio Theatre, Oatley. He describes his duties at the theatre, including cleaning the theatre after patrons viewed newsreels on Belsen and were ill. ...F04048
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Interview with Helen McAnulty (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Helen McNulty was twelve when the war ended. She recalls her experiences during the war years, especially the memories of friends who had brother that were in POW camps, one of which were crucified. ...F04088
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Interview with Jean Scott (When the war came to Australia).
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Jean Scott was a member of the Australian Women's Land Army, (AWLA) which was formed to do the manual labour on farms, in place of the men who had gone to war. There were 6000 AWLA girls in the Co...F04036
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Interview with John Slee and stills (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
At the outbreak of war, Mr Slee was an engineering student at Melbourne University. He left university, joined a Militia engineer unit and trained compulsory trainees. He discusses the policy of wirin...F04073
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Interview with Kathleen Lonergan (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Kathleen Lonergan was involved heavily in the Comforts Fund in Gulgong during the war. She was the President of the Comforts Funds and was involved in fundraising activities such as street stall...F04087
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Interview with Ken Haylings (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr Ken Haylings was a school boy during the war and describes his experiences while living in Petersham, Sydney. He describes his mother receiving a telegram with birthday wishes, while neighbours rec...F04033
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Interview with Lesley O'Donnell (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Lesley O'Donnell was a shop assistant at David Jones department store in Sydney during the war. She describes the range of merchandise available in shoes; how the rationing system worked; and the ...F04041
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Interview with Lillian Malcolm (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Malcolm reminisces about her young husband who was an airman, serving with the 'Suicide Squadron', Coastal Command in England. He was killed six months into his posting. She had to support herself...F04038
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Interview with Louisa Hughes (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Hughes, Lillian Look Film Productions Pty Ltd Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Louisa Hughes talks about her life at home while her son, Hilary, was away fighting. She had a sense of denial while he was away. Mrs Hughes also describes the relief she felt when the war was ov...F04077
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Interview with Meg Ewart (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Ewart joined the Army in 1941 and worked with the 2/10 Field Ambulance. She was posted to Darwin and was disappointed as she wanted to go to an active area. The 28 sisters travelled on the troop s...F04054
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Interview with Nancy Keesing (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Keesing was a student doing the Intermediate Certificate at the outbreak of the war. As a Jew, she and her family became aware of the problems in Europe and her family over there migrated to Ameri...F04052
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Interview with Pat Grainger (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Film Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Pat Grainger for the television documentary series When the war came to Australia.F04168
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Interview with Pat Heher (When the war came to Australia).
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Pat Heher worked in Sydney at David Jones department store in the shoe section. The Ministry of Munitions took over the Market Street store, so the entire concern was crammed into the Elizabeth St...F04040
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Interview with Phil Chapman (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr Phil Chapman was a member of the Coastwatchers and was stationed at coastal radio station VID Darwin Radio. The Coastwatchers were set up by the Royal Australian Navy by Commander Falt. The Navy su...F04049
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Interview with Thelma Long (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Film Productions Pty Ltd Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Thelma Long visited Germany in 1938 as a team member of the Australian Women's Tennis Team and describes her experiences. As part of the war effort, she joined the Red Cross as a transport driver ...F04037
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Interview with Tom Collins. (When the war came to Australia).
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Tom Collins worked in Darwin to set up cameras on reconnaisance aircraft. The results were used for identification and mapping. Collins stated that the aircraft used by the RAAF were not appropriate. ...F04056
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Interview with Tony Polverino (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Polverino, Tony Look Film Productions Pty Ltd Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr Tony Polverino was a school boy and member of the Boy Scouts during the war. He worked as a bicycle messenger with the National Emergency Services (NES). Mr Polverino talks about carrying messages ...F04034
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Japan (World at war)
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Maker: Thames Television International Ltd
Japanese experience of the war, and the Allies' experience of the Japanese.F10222-22
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John Bryden Wells family films
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Maker: Wells, John Bryden
Filmed in the back of John Bryden Wells' parents' home in 34 Smith Street Wollongong NSW on the day that John Bryden Wells returned from the disastrous Greece and Crete evacuations of April/May 1941. ...F11531
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Liberty Loan "Its up to you"
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Released by the National Films Council for the Department of Information. Distribution courtesy of Fox Film Corporation (Aust) Pty Ltd. A cinema trailer using archival film, animation, posters and a s...F01584
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Meet the Squander Bug
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A cartoon animation featuring a Nazi Squander Bug that encourages people to spend all they can because it doesn't aid the war effort. An appeal for subscriptions to the 4th Liberty Loan.F01379
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1. Models help to identify Jap planes 2. Schnapper Island sea training (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 8)
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1. (1 min 22 sec) Making model Japanese aircraft at Melbourne Technical College to be used by RAAF instructors. 2. (2 min 20 sec) Sydney training depot for navy's young boys.F00331
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1. Names in the news 2. Do's and don'ts for civilians in battle zone (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 16)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 16 1. (1 min 21 sec) General MacArthur arrives at Parliament House, Canberra and is greeted by Prime Minister John Curtin and Army Minister Francis Forde 2...F00339
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Names in the news, Mr H.T. Timperney, journalist (Fox Movietone News Vol. 12 No. 47)
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Mr H.T. Timperney, Australian journalist and authority on Pacific Affairs tells of his impressions of the Chinese situation.F00318
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1. Navy escorts troops in Mediterranean 2. Despatch riders training, Vic. 3. Dutch hospital ship returns with wounded (Fox Movietone News Vol. 12 No. 39)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 12 No. 39. 1. (53 sec) Naval vessels escort troopships in the Mediterranean (See also F01002 for Department of Information unedited footage) 2. (43 sec) A natur...F00310
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1. New destroyer adds to our navy strength 2. Scouts stage metal drive for war effort. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 9)
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1. (58 sec) HMAS Warramunga launched by Mrs Forde from NSW dockyard. 2. (1 min 48 sec) Boy Scouts and Cubs organise to collect aluminium.F00332
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News of the week 26 July 1941. 1. RAAF Catalina Aircraft 2. Ambulances presented by Red Cross 3. Senior royal navy officers, Melbourne 4. Australian comforts fund chief returns from Middle East. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 12 No. 32)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 12 No 32. News of the week 1. (1 min 8 sec) Arrival in Australia of Catalina Flying Boat for service with the RAAF. Interview with Captain Patrick Gordon Taylor,...F00303
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1. Parents dig slit trenches for schools. 2. Kiddies slide to safety in raid shelters. 3. Air raid victims speak. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 11)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
1. (1 min 13 sec) School children join their fathers on Saturday afternoons to dig slit trenches. 2. (2 min 38 sec) Scarboro house children practice air raid precautions. 3. (5min) Survivors from firs...F00334
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[Perth c 1942: regatta, street scenes and Walker family. Street scene St Kilda Road, Melbourne.]
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[Perth c 1942: regatta, street scenes and Walker family. Street scene St Kilda Road, Melbourne.]F04771
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1. RAAF strafe enemy ships. 2. Major-General Bennett speaks. 3. What of Japan ? (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 13)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone Vol. 13 No. 13. 1. (1 min 36 sec) Flight Lieutenant Truscott and other RAAF pilots in Spitfire aircraft strafe enemy shipping. 2. Major-General Bennett urges offensive sp...F00336
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RAAF swimming carnival, Melbourne (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 7)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News newsreel Vol. 13 No. 7 on the RAAF swimming carnival, Melbourne.F00330
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1. RAF from Malaya send greetings 2. The civilian war front (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 18)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 181. (47 sec) Men of RAF evacuated from Malaya give cheery message to Australia 2. (2 min 49 sec) Scenes of war factories under special smoke screen, remov...F00341
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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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The second line front
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Maker: Joseph, Louis
Opening title indicates that the film received third place in the International Gold Cup Australian Amateur Cine Society. Close up of red Australian flag. Title 'Second line front'. Introduction reads...F04941
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Tobruk for valour (Fox Movietone News Vol. 12 No. 42)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News newsreel Vol. 12 No. 42. Mr and Mrs Edmondson receive the Victoria Cross from the Governor-General on behalf of their son, NX15705 Corporal J.H. Edmondson, 2/17th Bn A...F00313
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1. VAD's leave for front with AIF 2. Men of valour return home 3. Should we expect bombs from Japan? (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 11.)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
1. (1 min 27 sec) Troopship departs with first batch of VADs leaving for the front 2. (2 min 11 sec) Lieutenant Cutler and other wounded war heroes return home and are united with their families. 3. (...F00324
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Victory suit
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Maker: Dearth, Harry Smart, Ralph
A War Organisation of Industry production. Directed by Ralph Smart, commentary by Harry Dearth. Sydney, Mr Dedman arrives wearing the first victory suit made in Australia. He is interviewed in his off...F01641
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War comes to Australia (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 6)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Japanese bomb Rabaul bombed and attack by sea expected and will be meet by AIF, Militia and native troops. Japan strikes on a 3500 mile front from Rabaul to Singapore. Japanese troops are shown and d...F00329
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Wodonga cattle sale, June 1944
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Maker: Trerise, John William
On 23 June 1944 the largest Wodonga sale of beef cattle for forty years was held. Three thousand four hundred head of beef breeds, Herefords, Hereford-Shorthorn cross, Devon Shorthorns, Aberdeen Angus...F01690