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Newsreel "Australian girls stage mass drill at Army hospitals" shows entertainment for injured Australian troops

Australian girls from the Sydney Australia College of Physical Culture perform mass drills in Army Hospitals in Sydney Australia during World War 2. Crowd cheering. Patient on a wheel chair watches the mass drills. The girls perform gymnastics drills and calisthenic exercises with rhythm and precision as the crowd of injured Australian soldiers and sailors watches.

Location: Sydney Australia
Date: 1944
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040781
Anna Roosevelt reviews troops and Jean Marie Faircloth MacArthur Christens the Australian Destroyer, Bataan the during World War II

Opening scene shows a Boeing B-24 Liberator bomber arriving at an airfield in the Caribbean during World War 2 . U.S. First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt steps from the aircraft, stopping here on one of her many trips. She strolls among U.S. servicemen and others. She is escorted by a General and reviews American Troops on parade at an army base. Scene shifts abruptly to the Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney in New South Wales Sydney Australia, where the Australian Destroyer, Bataan, is being Christened on 15 January 1944 by Jean MacArthur, the wife of General Douglas MacArthur. Dockyard workers drive wedges from beneath the destroyer's hull, to free her for launching. Mrs. MacArthur announces the name, Bataan, and swings a bottle of champaign to christen her. The ship proceeds down the ways. View from below of sailors on deck as she launches.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1944, March 20
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067066
People gather to watch the rodeo as the Australians and Americans compete at the Sports Ground in Sydney, Australia.

The Australians and Americans compete in a rodeo at the Sports Ground in Sydney, Australia. People seated in a large number in the stadium. The Americans and Aussies riding horses on the ground. Some of the men falling from the horses. People cheering and applauding.

Location: Sydney Australia
Date: 1944, June 15
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076593
Visit of Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky in Brisbane, and Prime Minister Holt hosts a boat trip in Sydney, Australia.

Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky of Vietnam visits Australia during the Vietnam War. Brisbane: Demonstration against visit of Vietnamese Prime Minister. People shout with placards in hand. Police restrain crowd and escort Prime Ministre Ky. Placard reads 'Go home murderer and take Holt with you' and 'Stop Ky'. Nguyen Cao Ky and Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt pose in Sydney, Australia. Sydney: Boat in sea. Prime Minister Holt waves. Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky and his wife wave from a ship.

Location: Australia
Date: 1967
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026423
View of the Sydney Harbour Bridge during its construction

View of the Sydney Harbour Bridge under construction. Views of the steel through arch bridge spanning across Sydney Harbour in Sydney, Australia. Dockyards visible. Ships in the harbor. Various buildings beside the harbor and the Quay area. View on the bridge taken from the partially built roadway surface. Evening view of sunset over the harbor. Footage is circa 1930, after the two halves of the arches had been joined together, which occurred in August 1930. The road and railway tracks, completed in 1931, are under construction in this footage.

Location: Sydney Australia
Date: 1930
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027569
General Thomas Blamey reviews Australian veterans parading in Sydney.

Australian veterans parade in Sydney. Army band plays the music. Soldiers welcomed by the people. People cheer and wave. Australian flag on a wall. Man and woman stand at balconies. A Sign reads ' Town Hall'. General Thomas Blamey pay salute to the heroic sons. People look at the parade and wave. (World War II period).

Location: Sydney Australia
Date: 1944
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021167
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