The Australian Way: A Salute to Aussie Sex Appeal (1982) - Clip 2: Salute to the Aussie male

An Australian soldier says goodbye to his French sweetheart (Eugenie Prescott), the beautiful daughter of a local café proprietor, as the troops march up to the lines, singing ‘Mademoiselle from...

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The Redfern Mail Exchange’s impressive new computerised mail sorting system is displayed. It illustrates data entry relating to each postal item entered.

Assistant artistic director of the Sydney Dance Company Janet Vernon remembers meeting Tasmanian dancer Graeme Murphy when he first joined the Australian Ballet School as a young man. We see Janet...

This is one of the two television advertisements produced to facilitate the change to metric on Australian roads in July 1974.

In court, Dr Sort (Penne Hackforth-Jones) describes Alvin’s condition – satyromania – ‘the male equivalent of nymphomania’. Alvin and girlfriend (Elli Maclure) argue with a disgusted taxi...

This clip begins with the crowd watching an AFL match in 1925. They wave their hats to the camera. The AFL players run out onto the field and play.

Voice-over narration tells us that it is here the dead were buried – right here. Images of ghost gums fill the screen. The narration emphasises through repetition that it is ‘here’ the people...

Pelsaert returns from Batavia in a rescue vessel for the crew shipwrecked off the Western Australian coast. Prison cells were built from coral on Long Island to confine the mutineers.

This newsreel from about 1926 shows Australian cricketers, Warren Bardsley, WM Woodfull and Arthur Richardson while on tour in England. It also features English cricketer JB (Jack) Hobbs. The...