Browse 11 movies from Cinesound Productions Limited
In a dry unforgiving part of Australia, a man and his wife have set up home and live stock to make their living. Just when it seemed the drought and lack of finances were getting to be too much, things change: BP is looking for a suitable area to attempt the world land speed record.
Jan 1964
The first sequel to the original box office hit On Our Selection, Grandad Rudd drops in on the Rudd family, headed by patriarch Dad Rudd (Bert Bailey), much later in life, with the family now prosperous farmers.
Feb 1935
Commissioned to promote South Australia's 100th anniversary, this film documents the landscape, rural industries and Indigenous people throughout Central Australia and the Northern Territory. Following a route from Port Lincoln to Alice Springs, it shows iron-ore mines, cattle stations, the MacDonnell Ranges, and contrasting ethnographic footage of communities maintaining traditional ways of life in Palm Valley and those living within the Hermannsburg Mission. It was produced as a wilderness companion to the urban-focused film, Here is Paradise.
Jan 1936
The movie opens with the title card "bushland symphony", followed by sounds and vision of the Australian bush. The subsequent action involves a series of various subplots centered on a "selection" in South West Queensland owned by Dad Rudd.
Jul 1932
An Australia propaganda war film documenting the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. Nominated for the Academy Award.
Mar 1943
A story of rival sheep stations and of the strong-willed squatter’s daughter who wants to unite them.
Sep 1933
The 1954 Round Australia Trial, officially the Redex Trial was the second running of the Round Australia Trial. The rally took place between 3 and 20 July 1954. The event covered 16,900 kilometres around Australia. It was won by Jack 'Gelignite' Murray and Bill Murray, driving a Ford 1948 V8.
Jul 1954
Daubeney Carshott, a concert pianist, leaves London to dive for pearls on Thursday Island in the South Seas at the whim of Stella Raff, his fiancée. Once there, he discovers that the life he leads as a pearl diver is better in every way than his former existence as a social-lion pianist. He meets and falls in love with Lorna Quidley, after learning this Stella had send other suitors off in quest of a giant pearl for her.
Mar 1938
A short documentary showing the construction and opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Narrated by Frank Hurley, it also features aerial views and scenic locations around Sydney. This film is believed to be lost.
Jun 1932
Commissioned by the South Australian Centenary Committee to commemorate the state's 100th anniversary, this official documentary short showcases the architecture, agricultural developments, urban and regional landscapes of South Australia. The travelogue highlights Adelaide's city streets and natural landmarks like the River Murray and Mount Gambier's Blue Lake.
Rugby league clash between Sydney Firsts and the American All Stars, who toured Australia and New Zealand between May and August 1953.
May 1953