A small group of young Aboriginal men demonstrate a shake-a-leg dance on the beach at Murray Island.

Three Torres Strait Islander men demonstrate a traditional fire-making practice.

Summary by Liz McNiven

This clip shows the end of the 1896 Melbourne Cup horse race through the onlooking crowd. Newhaven wins.

Summary by Elizabeth Taggart-Speers

This footage of a man performing on rollerskates for a crowd in a park is thought to be Australia’s earliest surviving film.

This clip shows a group of men posing for the camera at the 1896 Melbourne Cup. Unfamiliar with moving image, the men remain still as if posing for a photograph.

This clip shows the end of the 1896 Melbourne Cup horse race through the onlooking crowd. Newhaven wins.

Summary by Elizabeth Taggart-Speers

Football, meatpies, kangaroos and Thomson cars?

Herbert Thomson was the first person to design, build and market a wholly Australian-made car, 50 years before the first Holden.