Titles tagged with ‘boxing’
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Australasian Gazette – 1st Chatswood Erects a Tower and a Rope Suspension Bridge (c1923)
This newsreel clip from approximately 1923 shows the 1st Chatswood troop of Boy Scouts, which won the E Trenchard Miller Shield in that year, erecting a tower and ...
Boxing 1908: Johnson vs Burns (1908)
Historical footage of an open-air boxing match held at Sydney Stadium, Rushcutters Bay, on 26 December 1908. Canadian Tommy Burns and African American Jack Johnson are competing for ...
Dynasties – The Rose Family (2003)
Bob Rose was a football legend and head of a sporting dynasty. He was one of seven sons rescued from poverty by Australian Rules Football and their story ...
Harmony Row (1933)
Tommy Wallace (George Wallace), down on his luck, decides to join the Victoria Police. He’s threatened, fooled and bullied by the thugs of Harmony Row, a tough inner-city ...
Les Darcy vs Dave Smith for the Championship of Australia (1916)
Historical footage of Australian Middleweight Champion Les Darcy and Dave Smith training together at Sydney Harbour and later in a boxing match on 24 June 1916.
Les Darcy’s Last Fight: Les Darcy vs George Chip (1916)
Historical footage of Australian boxing champion Les Darcy and American George Chip at the Sydney Stadium on 30 September 1916. Highlights from rounds one, three, five, seven and ...
McIlwraith, Peter: Brisbane Show and Moonbi Park: Home Movie (c1950)
This silent colour home movie, filmed by Peter McIlwraith, is of the annual Brisbane Exhibition (or ‘Ekka’) in the 1950s. It features the showgrounds, crowds and rides, as ...
Rebels With a Cause (1994)
The film looks at Cecil Waters and his unorthodox methods of bringing up his three sons on a farm on the Central Coast of NSW. Ces rules the ...
September (2007)
Ed Anderson (Xavier Samuel) and Paddy Parker (Clarence John Ryan) are best friends, growing up on a farm in the West Australian wheat belt in 1968. Ed’s father ...
Training at Rushcutters Bay (1908)
Historical footage of heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson at Rushcutters Bay in front of a small crowd as he prepares for his fight with Canadian world heavyweight champion Tommy ...
