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Paper Run

Follows a newspaper delivery run around the suburb of Newport in Sydney.

Year : 1956 | Total Duration : 10 Minutes | Producer : Eric Thompson
Director : Malcolm Otton |

Australian flag flying against blue sky. Good printing press shot of newspaper running through rollers of press. Interior shots of automated newspaper printing factory. Man loading bundles of papers onto back of truck. Quicktime clip available.

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Access No. 11035 | 24 secs | 1950s | Newport, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |

Newspaper delivery. Dark sky streaked with orange yellow sun rise and a few city lights. Flat topped truck in silhouette. Sunrise in suburban street. Dashboard of Vauxhall convertible car with radio. Delivering newspapers in the suburbs from open car. Two comic sequences where newspaper delivered to man shaving on second floor verandah of house and to a couple embracing in small MG sports car by the lake. Quicktime clip available.

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Access No. 11039 | 1 min 29 secs | 1950s | Newport, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |

Newspaper delivery. Man driving Vauxhall convertible car throws rolled up newspaper in suburban homes during paper delivery. Man on verandah with baby in arms catches thrown newspaper with one hand. Quicktime clip available.

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Access No. 11052 | 32 secs | 1950s | Newport, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |

Newport Beach, NSW. Man delivering newspapers from open Vauxhall convertible car in suburban street. Some newspapers fall into letterboxes, one falls in puddle. Three kookaburras in tree laughing. Pittwater seen through trees showing Lion Island in distance. Newspaper delivery to boat shed on Pittwater. Family packing yacht with supplies on marina. Quicktime clip available.

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Access No. 11058 | 2 mins | 1950s | Newport, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |

Vauxhall convertible car down narrow suburban street lined with lush trees including on Japanese Maple (?) in red autumn colour. View of Pittwater with swimming pool on residential property, grassed lawns to water edge. Children run to collect newspaper delivered by man in open Vauxhall car, then jump into pool. Boy chasing newspaper delivery in his pyjamas. Quicktime clip available.

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Access No. 11080 | 37 secs | 1950s | Newport, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |

Newspaper delivery. Red maple or flame (?) tree. Suburban house with green front lawn, woman in night dress and open dressing gown runs out to catch newspaper. Woman reading newspaper. Newport Beach. Letterbox attached to a flying fox mechanism on a steep block of land. Surf rolling over rocks at beach. Vauxhall car dashboard. Bilgola Beach, delivering newspapers along Bilgola's streets. Quicktime clip available.

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Access No. 11087 | 1 min 37 secs | 1950s | Newport, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |

Newspaper deliveries. Man on verandah doing exercises . His wife tries to show him something in the newspaper but he waves her away. Open Vauxhall convertible car along road. Newport beach. Clergyman catching delivered newspaper outside his home. Man in wheelchair being hand delivered newspaper. Dog collects newspaper and takes to mistress. Quicktime clip available.

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Access No. 11456 | 1 min 24 secs | 1950s | Newport, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |

Open Vauxhall convertible car along main street in Newport. Car parks at beach, pine trees, passing people wave to driver, group on beach run down to surf. Quicktime clip available.

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Access No. 11470 | 59 secs | 1950s | Newport, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |

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