
WARNING: this article contains names, images or voices of deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
As winter sets in, and the world faces uncertain times, we've chosen 50 items from our collection to gladden your heart, pique your curiosity and get your foot tapping:
An excerpt from the documentary Walkabout to Hollywood (Bill Leimbach, 1982) featuring David Gulpilil. Courtesy: Bill Leimbach. NFSA title: 548282
The Mike Walsh Show, Episode 1157 (excerpt), broadcast 23 September 1981. Courtesy: Mike Walsh AM, OBE Hayden Productions. NFSA title: 1244459
Victor Willey Jnr works in his father's barber shop at Brighton-Le-Sands, Sydney (newsreel). Courtesy: Cinesound Movietone Productions. NFSA title: 129214
Joan Crawford in a still from Dancing Lady (USA, Robert Z Leonard, 1933). From the Taussig film stills collection. NFSA title: 748083
'Ingenious Machines Produce Biscuits by the Million', Australian Diary 46, 1951. National Film Board. NFSA title: 67216
Excerpt from a 2SM radio interview in Sydney with Lillian Roxon (1973). Used with permission from the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney. NFSA title: 551081.
Motorcycle chariot race at the 1936 NSW Police Carnival, Movietone News, 7 March 1936.
Courtesy: Cinesound Movietone Productions. NFSA: 136981
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.