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Drive-In Horror

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Sweeping Australia in the 1950s and based on the American model, the drive-in cinema became one of the country’s most popular theatrical experiences. Ca..

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Dead End Drive-in (AFC)

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The Talkies : Australians at the movies 1930s style

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Dead End Drive-In

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Drive

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History of Australian Cinema Series

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History of Australian Cinema [DVD]

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The Pictures that moved: Australian cinema 1896-1920

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Forgotten Cinema

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Sunshine and shadows: seventy years of Australian cinema

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Sunday drive

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The Drive home

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The Big island [Cinemascope print]

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Poor Man's Cinema

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The Century of cinema. Volume 1 (UK, Ireland, Australia)

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On the highway

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Breakdown

Australia, 1979
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Birth of a car

Australia, 1946
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Touring Australia the Movie

Australia
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