Australian Films in the 1930s and 1940s

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This is a collection of materials held at the AFI Research Collection (AFIRC) that relate directly to Australian films screened from 1930-1949. The 1930s and 40s were an era when Australian film production had to deal with sound and its opportunities whilst the 1940s brought on the war. As feature film production lessened in Australia as the 1940s went on, documentaries began to be a production focus. Due to the timeframe of this collection (before the inception of the AFIRC and the Australian Film Institute) the amount of materials held here are small, but in many ways they are important as they are difficult to locate elsewhere. Most of the items held in this collection are clippings files, with other items being books, and journal articles.