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Video / Canberra under construction in the 1920s

THE National Film and Sound Archive have released some very nifty footage of the earliest days of the construction of Canberra with this note:

A compilation of footage of Canberra in the 1920s. Includes the proposed site of Parliament House and then shows it under construction. The Sydney and Melbourne buildings in Civic. Panoramas from Mt Ainslie. Footage is from Canberra in the Making (NFSA title: 12980); Australia’s Federal Capital Nearing Completion (NFSA title: 384692); Parliament House, Canberra c1925 (NFSA title: 384681); Canberra Scenes c1927 (NFSA title: 14837); Canberra c1929 (NFSA title: 13135)

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