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This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1920 shows injured soldiers from Caulfield Military Hospital attending a special matinee screening of a

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The North Sydney Orpheum Theatre is demolished in 1962 to make way for the construction of the Warringah Expressway. A map illustrates the first section of the planned route from the Sydn

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This clip looks at the closure of Canberra’s independent Electric Shadows art-house cinema in December 2006.

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An intertitle invites viewers to 'see for a brief moment’ the sound equipment for talking pictures. Then a Hoyts Talking Pictures Roadshow sound unit truck is seen coming down the street.

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In a burst of colour, eight children of various ages happily stream out of a suburban house and pile (miraculously) into a car waiting outside.

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This clip was aimed at visitors to Starlight Drive-In, located in the suburb of Watson to the north of Canberra and operating from 1957 to 1993.

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What did Australians watch at their local cinema during the First World War?