All titles produced in 1929
8 titles
Australasian Gazette – Spectacular Surf Club Parade at Bondi Championships Carnival (c1929)
This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1929 shows a Scottish pipe band leading the opening parade of a surf carnival at Bondi Beach, Sydney. Surf ...
Bushells Tea: The Charmed Cup (1929)
This Bushells tea cinema advertisement from 1929 is a short narrative about a woman who has her tea-leaves read by a girlfriend who successfully predicts she will marry ...
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 ...
Hoyts and Studebaker Cinema Advertisement: Touring Talkie Show (c1929)
This silent advertisement promotes the new ‘Touring Talkie Show’ truck operated by Hoyts – with sponsorship from Studebaker Car Corporation and the Shell Oil Company.
Hoyts Cinemas: Talkies for Country Areas (c1929)
This Hoyts cinema advertisement shows the wonders of the Hoyts Talking Pictures Roadshow which toured a portable sound unit to bring the ‘talkies’ to country areas around Australia ...
Life Guards at Bondi Beach (c1929)
A fragment of actuality footage that shows lifesavers marching on Bondi Beach, a demonstration rescue of a person from the surf and lifesaving boats being rowed out into ...
Talkie Season Opens: Wintergarden Theatre (c1929)
This silent historical footage shows the Wintergarden Theatre (now demolished) in Rose Bay, Sydney, as it prepares for the screening of talking pictures. It also features some of ...
Travelogue of Eastern States (c1929)
This travelogue, made around 1929, shows the major cities of eastern Australia including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and the new national capital, Canberra.
