From the 1920s right through to the 1970s, cinemas screened short news and entertainment reels before the feature films. We hold over 4000 reels in our collection. One Cinesound Movietone reel from 1936 covers the New South Wales Police Carnival, a large public event featuring parading squads and displays. This excerpt focuses on a race promoted at the time as ‘death-defying’. In characteristic newsreel fashion, the narrator delivers a run of pun-filled commentary, but after a brief ‘Caeser’s Gh
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