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he anniversary of the landing which 7KUHH ¿OPV ZHUH VKRW RQ WKDW GD\ The Anzac
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Few people know that the phrase ‘Anzac Day’ Harry (Henry) Krischock. They were screened
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in Adelaide that aligned to the traditional Eight- its counter-part, the Open-Air Pavilion from
Hour-Day (Labour Day) holiday. October 14 to 26 1915, then at Star Pictures in
Hindmarsh 30 Oct - 2 Nov 1915 and possibly
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endeavour to support the wounded soldiers. It 1915.
included a procession with soldiers marching A newspaper article stated that there were large
but also such novel elements as two obsolete ERRNLQJV IRU WKH ¿OPV LQWHUVWDWH DIWHU 1RYHPEHU
trams being crashed and exploded into each 2.
other on Adelaide Oval in front of a crowd of
15,000. The images seen below show two of the
Wondergraph advertisements as well as part of
the procession and the tram smash.
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The First Anzac Day, a documentary being Australasian Gazette newsreels from 1910–
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received a small grant from the ANZAC Day Day, Eight Day Hour parades, Australians and
Commemoration Fund but is largely self- WW1 troops leaving and returning to Australia.
funded. The NFSA does have those but the usage
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historians and following much searching
through archives, including the National Film ŽůůĞĐƚŽƌƐ ĐĂŶ LJŽƵ ŚĞůƉ͍ ŶLJ ůĞĂĚƐ ƉůĞĂƐĞ ĐŽŶƚĂĐƚ ƐŚ
and Sound Archive, none of the Krischock ^ƚĂƌŬĞLJ͗ ĂƐŚΛƐƚĂƌŬĞLJ͘ŶĞƚ͘ĂƵ Žƌ Ϭϰϭϳ ϴϭϰ ϱϮϭ͘
footage has been located. There are six
photographs in the SA State Library, and some tŝƚŚ ƚŚĂŶŬƐ ƚŽ͗ ƐŚ ^ƚĂƌŬĞLJ͕ ĂǀŝĚ ŽŶĂůĚƐŽŶ ĂŶĚ
newspaper images, but that’s all so far. DŝŬĞ dƌŝĐŬĞƩ͘

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