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Dame Nellie Melba footage found in Adelaide law firm – ABC News
The National Film and Sound Archive releases a video of opera singer Dame Nellie Melba at her outer Melbourne home in the 1920s, ahead of the 160th anniversary…
Rare footage of Dame Nellie Melba has been found in an Adelaide law firm by a lawyer moving into a new office.
- Dame Nellie Melba was a famous Australian opera singer who lived from 18611931
- A lawyer found rare footage of her in a box in his office
- It has been published on the National Film and Sound Archive website
The 1927 film is the longest surviving footage of Dame Nellie Melba in Australia, before her death a few years later.
Adelaide patent lawyer Don Angus found the eight-minute-long film…
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