Australasian Gazette – Goodbye Sunny New South Wales

Clip 1: Goodbye sunny New South Wales

0 min 44 sec

Taken from the newsreel Australasian Gazette – Goodbye Sunny New South Wales (c1917)

Original title classification G – this clip chosen to be PG

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Please note: this clip is silent

Curator’s clip description

Soldiers are despatched to the front during the First World War in a public parade in Sydney to encourage recruitment.

Curator’s notes

This Australasian Gazette newsreel uses an intertitle to introduce the story and a wide shot to capture the parade.

Apart from encouraging recruitment, the parade also aimed to increase awareness of Australia’s contribution to the First World War (also known as the Great War), which ended in 1918.

Elizabeth Taggart-Speers, curator

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