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Series 6: Audio-visual material, circa 1940-2005

 Series

Scope and contents

Series 6 holds a collection of 16 mm films that contain home movies from various social events and holidays. Some of the films have their original packaging, occasionally with inscriptions present, but often without any written information about the content of the film. They date from around the late 1940s to mid to late 1950s. There is also an open reel audio tape and two later professionally produced items, a video and a DVD from the around the 1990s.

Dates

  • circa 1940-2005

Processing information

The numbers given to the film reels have been assigned by cataloguers after donation of the material to State Library Victoria. They do not relate to an original ordering of the collection.

Repository details

Part of the Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library Victoria Repository

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Melbourne Victoria 3000 Australia
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