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Arrival of sound

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It was a huge shift for Hollywood when synchronised sound arrived in the late 1920s. Actors, studios and journalists resisted the new technology, and some eve..

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3D camera used to shoot Power of Love

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Australia at War 1914-1918: an Account of the Australian Force in the Great War

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