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.

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

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.

Guest contributor Jennifer Bowen shares extracts from several rare regional radio programs in the NFSA collection funded by the Rural Bank of NSW.

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

A visit to the NFSA gave one family history researcher the chance to learn more about the adventures of her great uncle in the early 1920s.