Titles tagged with ‘1960s’

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Australian Visit (1967)

This ABC News production covers the five-day visit of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam, Air Vice-Marshall Nguyen Cao Ky, and his wife, to Australia in ...

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Berlei Underwear TV Advertisement: Sarong Body Magic (1968)

This black-and-white television advertisement for the Berlei ‘Sarong Body Magic’ girdle demonstrates the wonders of a girdle that adjusts to the figure, no matter what your shape. Underwear ...

Beyond Reasonable Doubt – The Case of Ronald Ryan (1977)

Ronald Ryan, a convicted armed robber, was the last man to be hanged in Australia. The year was 1967. It was alleged he’d shot a warder as he ...

Brides of Christ (1991)

A miniseries for television about the lives of a group of women, some of whom are part of a teaching order of nuns and some of whom are ...

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Compass – Pregnant Pause (2006)

Four women talk about their experiences with unwanted pregnancies in the fifties, an era before abortion was readily available. One of the women already had two children, was ...

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Dig A Million, Make A Million (1968)

Australia’s richest iron ore deposit has been found by Lang Hancock and his partner, Peter Wright. The mining company Hamersley Iron is developing a huge mining infrastructure in ...

Don’s Party (1976)

On federal election night in 1969, Don and Kath Henderson (John Hargreaves and Jeanie Drynan) host a party, to celebrate what they expect will be a Labor victory ...

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For Love or Money (1983)

Using a vast array of historical footage, the film proposes a history of women and work in Australia, from 1788 to 1983.

Four Corners – The First Program (1961)

The very first broadcast of Four Corners went to air on Saturday 19 August 1961. There is no record of the program as it went to air but ...

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McKenzie, Roger and Kent, Bernie: Around Sydney with a Camera (1962)

This silent home movie with intertitles was probably filmed by Roger McKenzie and takes in Sydney’s harbour suburbs from Watsons Bay to Kings Cross including the suburbs of ...

McKenzie, Roger and Kent, Bernie: Silent Car Trip Australia: Home Movie (c1960)

This travelogue is edited into segments based around the places and sites of interest that they visited on a trip through South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and ...

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September (2007)

Ed Anderson (Xavier Samuel) and Paddy Parker (Clarence John Ryan) are best friends, growing up on a farm in the West Australian wheat belt in 1968. Ed’s father ...

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They’re a Weird Mob (1966)

Nino Culotta (Walter Chiari), an Italian sports journalist, arrives in Australia to find his uncle’s new magazine for migrant Italians has folded. He gets a job as a ...

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With Gentle Majesty (1962)

A black-and-white documentary about the workhorse, made at a moment in history when the horse is about to disappear from Australia’s city streets forever. In 1962, the ice ...

A World for Children (c1962)

A documentary about the Bonegilla Migrant Reception Centre in regional Victoria as experienced through the eyes of three children.

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