Digital resources tagged with ‘newsreels’

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Every digital resource on Screen Australia’s Digital Learning site is tagged with descriptive terms. This list shows the resources which are tagged with ‘newsreels’.

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Censorship in Media

John Safran discusses censorship in Australian media.

NSW / Stage 5 / History / Topic 4 Australia and World War 2
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Cinesound Review

Ray Edmondson provides a history of Cinesound. Liz Jacka talks abut the differences between newsreels and today's TV news.

NSW / Stage 5 / History / Topic 3 Australia between the Wars
NSW / Stage 5 / Photographic and Digital Media / Interactive and Moving Forms
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End of Cinema Newsreel

The ultimate decline of cinema newsreels occurred with the coming of colour television.

NSW / Stage 5 / History / Topic 8 Australia's social and cultural history
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Fox Movietone News

The importance in Australian news broadcasting history of Movietone and other newsreels.

NSW / Stage 5 / History / Topic 3 Australia between the Wars
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Newsreels before sound

Newsreels included events of both political and social importance and were screened all day long in specially designed cinemas.

NSW / Stage 5 / History / Topic 3 Australia between the Wars
VIC / VELS Level 6 / English / Newsreels in Australia
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / Technology
NSW / Stage 5 / Photographic and Digital Media / Interactive and Moving Forms
National / Year 9 & 10 / English and Media Literacy / Newsreels
National / Upper Primary / Media Arts / Past and Present Contexts
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Newsreels boost morale

Newsreels of the war boosted the morale of Australians at the home front. The newsreel of Australian troops on the Kokoda Track shared the Oscar for Best Documentary in 1942.

NSW / Stage 5 / History / Topic 4 Australia and World War 2
National / Year 9 & 10 / Australian History / World War 2
NSW / Stage 5 / Photographic and Digital Media / Interactive and Moving Forms
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Sound and newsreels in the 1920s

Ray Edmondson provides an overview of the use of sound in newsreel production in Australia and recalls his experience of visiting the newsreel cinema in Sydney.

NSW / Stage 5 / Photographic and Digital Media / Interactive and Moving Forms
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Technology Timeline 1960s: film vs video image quality

Ray Edmondson compares the image quality of 35mm and 16mm film when it is transmitted in cinemas, on television and over the Internet.

NSW / Stage 5 / History / Topic 8 Australia's social and cultural history