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• TLF-IDM010966

The SeeMe website is designed for year 8 students and their teachers. It promotes a positive body image and tackles idealised media portrayals of beauty and gender, and the influence they have on young people. There are five modules and a digital interactive titled 'Photoshock', which explores the ways images are digitally ...

• TLF-IDR10936

This black-and-white clip shows a television advertisement for the 1956 Holden FE sedan. A male General Motors-Holden's (GMH) representative describes the three-year design and manufacture process involved in developing the new Holden. His voice-over accompanies scenes of a life-sized plastic model of a male driver used ...

• TLF-IDR10938

This black-and-white clip shows a television advertisement that details the export of General Motors-Holden's (GMH) cars across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. A male narrator explains in voice-over the history of Holden exports between 1954 and 1962. The advertisement features what is mostly actuality footage of the ...

• TLF-IDR1521

This is an image of the front cover of the sheet music for the 'Aeroplane Jelly song' with a photograph of the composer, Albert Lenertz (1891-1943), wearing evening dress. The sheet music was produced by the Aeroplane Jelly Company in 1930.

• TLF-IDR2033

This is a full-colour poster (57 cm x 44.5 cm) featuring an illustration of children playing at the beach. In the foreground, a boy with a spade at his side stands by a heap of sand he has dug, flexing his arm muscles. Two girls and another boy, all dressed in swimwear, are looking at the central figure. Across the bottom ...

• TLF-IDR2142

This is an excerpt from a silent black-and-white 1925 film 'Cotton growing in Australia'. It begins with a man walking behind a plough drawn by a horse; a dog barks as dust is kicked up by the horse and plough. The intertitle 'The crop takes from four to four and a half months to mature.' introduces a scene of cotton pickers ...

• TLF-IDR2270

This is a black-and-white recruitment poster for the Australian Imperial Force captioned, 'Are you shooting breakers when YOU SHOULD BE BEHIND A GUN?'. The poster shows a photograph of a soldier lying on the ground shooting a Bren light machine gun. Behind him is a sketch of a man shooting a wave on a surfboard in a similar ...

• TLF-IDR2274

This is a black-and-white poster showing a map of the world on which Australia is highlighted and linked to the five stars of the Southern Cross. The poster is titled 'This is OURS', and its emotive text urges Australians to fight to win on the battlefield and at home. The poster was produced by the Commonwealth Advertising ...

• TLF-IDR6230

This is an excerpt from a black-and-white advertisement featuring Rinso soap powder. It was made in 1931 and follows the form of a domestic drama in which a worn-out housewife has her life transformed by a new washing powder. The segment begins with the housewife complaining about the damage washing does to the clothes. ...

• TLF-IDR7660

This clip shows black-and-white and colour footage of historic postal delivery methods, both real and re-created, and contemporary colour footage of electronic transmissions conducted by Australia Post staff in smart corporate uniforms. Images of postal machinery and busy postal workers accompanied by an upbeat corporate ...