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Works explorer

Digger rig

Australia, 1970
film

A day in the life of a “roughneck” on a floating oil rig, the Ocean Digger, in Bass Strait.

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Algorithmically related works from our collection by image:

Digger rig

Australia, 1970
Similarity: 57%

[The White continent]

United Kingdom, 1951
Similarity: 50%

[Around Australia with Movietone; Gt. Barrier Reef; Sporting Highlights; Skiing; 1949 Melbourne Cup]

Australia, 1949
Similarity: 44%

When war came to Australia

Australia, OCT 2009
Similarity: 44%

[The White continent]

United Kingdom, 1951
Similarity: 43%

Destination: Port of Melbourne

Australia, 1975
Similarity: 43%

And now for some quotations

Australia
Similarity: 42%

Stop the drop: a concert for nuclear disarmament

Australia, 1983
Similarity: 41%

[Raymond Penington Home Movies: Reel 10]

Australia, c. 1945-1950
Similarity: 39%

People (Yallourn's Royal Hour 1954; Born to Die; Sir John Monash)

Australia
Similarity: 39%

Victoria's Energy

Australia, 1981
Similarity: 38%

First Fleet: rite of passage

Australia, 1988
Similarity: 38%

[Raymond Penington Home Movies: Reel 6]

Australia, c. 1955
Similarity: 37%

Summer scene

Australia, 1965
Similarity: 37%

Fremantle cray fishers

Australia, 1967
Similarity: 37%

The Australian airman: 1939-1945

Australia, 1967
Similarity: 36%

Photographs of El Segundo used in creation of Hades landscape

Similarity: 36%

[John Robertson Duigan Film Collection: Reel 9]

Australia, c. 1927
Similarity: 36%
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