Titles tagged with ‘1900s’

6 titles - sorted by title / by year

Boxing 1908: Johnson vs Burns (1908)

Historical footage of an open-air boxing match held at Sydney Stadium, Rushcutters Bay, on 26 December 1908. Canadian Tommy Burns and African American Jack Johnson are competing for ...

Higgins, Bryce: Family and Holiday Scenes: 1909-1924: Home Movies (c1909)

This home movie footage, filmed mostly by Ernest Higgins, includes scenes of a family picnic at Mt Wellington, Christmas celebrations, children’s birthday parties, picnics, holidays and other family ...

I Can Jump Puddles (1981)

This is the inspirational boyhood story of the author Alan Marshall, a victim of polio. Born in rural Victoria in the early 1900s, young Alan Marshall contracted the ...

Pathe Animated Gazette: Fire Breaks Out at Hornsby, Sydney (c1908)

An Australasian edition of the Pathe Animated Gazette newsreel from around 1908 which contains items including a fire at Hornsby in Sydney, the funeral procession for the late ...

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

On St Valentine’s Day 1900, three schoolgirls from an exclusive English-style boarding school go missing, along with a teacher, at Hanging Rock, in central Victoria. One of the ...

Training at Rushcutters Bay (1908)

Historical footage of heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson at Rushcutters Bay in front of a small crowd as he prepares for his fight with Canadian world heavyweight champion Tommy ...

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