Australian city slides

Film On display
Photograph by Egmont Contreras

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Magic lantern slide (Houses of Parliament, Adelaide)

c. 1949

Magic lantern slide (Parliament House, Melbourne)

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Magic lantern slide (Treasury Building, Melbourne)

Magic lantern slide (Treasury Building, Melbourne)

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Magic lantern slide (View of Melbourne)

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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16 February 2031

ACMI: Gallery 1

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Magic lantern slides

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The Story of the Moving Image → Moving Pictures → MI-02. Play and Illusion

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