Titles tagged with ‘Christmas’
8 titles - sorted by title / by year
Albion, Douglas: Children’s Party, c1921: Home Movie (c1921)
A home movie filmed by the Albion family of a children’s Christmas party in the 1920s. Most of the footage focuses on five-year-old Wally and takes place over ...
Australasian Gazette – Annual Christmas Treat (c1925)
This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1925 shows Christmas celebrations for children in the Victoria Barracks, Sydney including a live puppet show and Father Christmas ...
Boxing Day (2007)
Chris (Richard Green), a convict serving out the remainder of his sentence in home detention, is determined to stay both on the wagon and out of trouble. He’s ...
Bush Christmas (1947)
In the beautiful Mara Mara valley, the three Thompson children – Helen (Helen Grieve), John (Morris Unicomb) and Snow (Nicky Yardley) and their English friend Michael (Michael Yardley) ...
Christmas Hustle and Bustle: Crowds Leave for Well-deserved Holiday on 22 December (1928)
This item from a silent newsreel shows Melburnians during the Christmas season of 1928, including Christmas shoppers crossing Swanston Street in the pouring rain and two swagmen drinking ...
Compass – Fly on the Wall Messiah (2004)
Every year, 700 amateur singers come together to perform Handel’s Messiah at the Sydney Town Hall. It’s a Christmas tradition. They have nine rehearsals only and getting ready ...
Here Comes Santa (1929)
This silent, black-and-white cinema advertisement from 1929 for Anthony Hordern & Sons shows Santa arriving at Farm Cove, Sydney then transported by a horse-drawn carriage through the Botanic ...
Winners – The Paper Boy (1985)
It is 1932 and Joe (Christopher Schlusser) is 11 years old. When his father John Riordan (Tony Llewellyn Jones) loses his factory job, Joe gets a job as ...
