
Federal Parliament House in Canberra was opened with much ceremony on 9 May 1927 by the Duke of York, later King George VI. Included in the proceedings was the singing of the national anthem, 'God Save the King’, by Dame Nellie Melba. This official film of the event was originally silent but the NFSA commissioned a musical accompaniment, devised and performed by Elaine Loebenstein.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.