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What is the collection explorer?

A way to explore the ACMI collection when you don't know what you're looking for!

We're always looking for new ways to discover and access our collection. The recent development of large language models has created new opportunities by encoding human language into a format that's easy for computers to work with. One of those formats is embeddings.

Embeddings is a way to represent words as a list of numbers.

Scan this QR code to read more on labs.acmi.net.au

It means we can encode a human readable word like 'hello' into something a computer can quickly compare to lots of other words, finding matches.

This collection explorer uses embeddings to show you algorithmically matching works as you tap and explore.

See what the machine sees / see what the algorithm recommends...

Read more about it at: labs.acmi.net.au

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  1. Evolution of the Australian crawl

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    Evolution of the Australian crawl

    Australia, 1952

    John Kingsford-Smith and Kingcroft Productions

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    The Australian crawl stroke is demonstrated and compared with other styles used in free style swimming. A series of re-enactments, using champions of the past and present, (Beaurepaire and Charlton) show the developments of the style from its first known use in Australia by Wickham. The film also demonstrates variations on the crawl stroke.

  2. Style of champions: the Australian crawl

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    Style of champions: the Australian crawl

    Australia, 1970

    Cecil Holmes, John Martin-Jones and Australian Commonwealth Film Unit

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    John Konrads discusses training for championship swimming, particularly the Australian Crawl, showing leading Australian swimmers in action, methods of several coaches and scenes illustrating the popularity of swimming in Australia generally

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    Development of speed

    United Kingdom

    Donald Carter and Gaumont-British Instructional

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    Traces the development of style and speed in swimming through the ages. The movement of animals a bas-relief produced in 9 BC, and the crawl stroke as it has become recognized in the 20th century are studied. Details of the quick starting, racing diving, and quick turning for three well known strokes - back stroke, breast stroke, and crawl - are demonstrated.

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