40,000 Years of Dreaming: A Century of Australian Cinema
Clip 3: Australian cinema is silenced
1 min 24 sec
Taken from the documentary 40,000 Years of Dreaming: A Century of Australian Cinema (1996)
Original title classification not known – this clip chosen to be PG
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Curator’s clip description
During the 1950s, Australian feature film production ground to a halt, leaving newsreels as one of the few cinematic records of Australian life of the period. Iconic ‘50s newsreel footage plays in slow-motion to a rendition of ‘The Road to Gundagai’.
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