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Jubilee parade in Canberra

Title card: "50 years a commonwealth: brilliant jubilee pageant" / VS a high angle view of a parade with a float featuring a woman seated in a large clamshell; a float with the seal of Australia flanked by a kiwi bird and kangaroo; a boat with lifeguards ('Manly Warringah Sea Eagles' rugby club); men with sashes and swim caps; a giant cockatoo; war memorial float with shield and facsimile of a crown with "Lest we Forget"; another with "27 years of service and entertainment" with radio tubes and a white figure with comedy/tragedy masks; several floats featuring trolley cars / A woman who has fainted is carried from crowd / draft horses pull a cart with helmeted men / "Technology education" with a modernist structure / A woman sits on a float with a Greco-Roman motif and a grand piano / "Cavalcade of Jubilee, 1951, bigger brighter, better" with amusing human caricatures marching alongside / Women on tiered float with names of other countries; people in native costumes follow banner "Ukraine" / "Brewing industry" / A gowned woman with large wheat kernels / "The dairying industry; butter, cheese" topped with a cow / Women wave from float featuring a ram's head / Fireworks / Note: exact day not known; film has nitrate deterioration
Title card: "50 years a commonwealth: brilliant jubilee pageant" / VS a high angle view of a parade with a float featuring a woman seated in a large clamshell; a float with the seal of Australia flanked by a kiwi bird and kangaroo; a boat with lifeguards ('Manly Warringah Sea Eagles' rugby club); men with sashes and swim caps; a giant cockatoo; war memorial float with shield and facsimile of a crown with "Lest we Forget"; another with "27 years of service and entertainment" with radio tubes and a white figure with comedy/tragedy masks; several floats featuring trolley cars / A woman who has fainted is carried from crowd / draft horses pull a cart with helmeted men / "Technology education" with a modernist structure / A woman sits on a float with a Greco-Roman motif and a grand piano / "Cavalcade of Jubilee, 1951, bigger brighter, better" with amusing human caricatures marching alongside / Women on tiered float with names of other countries; people in native costumes follow banner "Ukraine" / "Brewing industry" / A gowned woman with large wheat kernels / "The dairying industry; butter, cheese" topped with a cow / Women wave from float featuring a ram's head / Fireworks / Note: exact day not known; film has nitrate deterioration
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Editorial #:
1126113735
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
June 01, 1951
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License type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
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Clip length:
00:02:47:08
Location:
Canberra, Australia
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr003500_01_02.mov