NFSA Restores: The Coolbaroo Club

Can you help us identify these Sydney locations from landmark 1920s films made by the McDonagh sisters?

The NFSA has identified rare footage of the 1920–21 Ashes Test series at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Ginger Meggs, Australia’s longest-running comic strip character, has chalked up a century. The NFSA marks the milestone with newly digitised footage of Ginger and his creator James Charles Bancks.

A tribute to John Cornell, the talented writer and highly respected business visionary, who has passed away at age 80.

In celebration of the 160th anniversary of Dame Nellie Melba’s birth, we reveal previously unseen private footage of Australia’s ‘Queen of Song’.

Discover a unique collection of home movies by make-up artist and dancer Dawn Swane, including never-before-seen footage of The Beatles.

Restoring 'The Cheaters', a 1929 silent film by the pioneering McDonagh sisters.

In 1929, Hoyts – with help from Studebaker and the Shell Oil Company – loaded cinema sound equipment onto a truck so regional Australia could experience the latest in 'talking pictures'.

Graham Shirley's portrait of the pioneering Australian filmmakers, the McDonagh Sisters – Isabel, Paulette and Phyllis.

We’ve reached into our magic bag of tricks to bring you some excerpts from the original Felix the Cat cartoons.