Arthur Phillip’s hopes for the new colony
Extract from A Nation is Built (1938). Cinesound Movietone Australian Newsreel Collection, 7586, National Film and Sound Archive
Directed by Frank Hurley for Cinesound Productions, this documentary traces the first 150 years of Australia's development. It was sponsored by the New South Wales state government to celebrate the 1938 sesquicentenary (150th anniversary) of the British colonisation of Australia.
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