This beautifully filmed home movie contains some of the earliest examples of home movie footage held by the National Film and Sound Archive. Summary by Poppy De Souza

This clip shows Ernest Higgins with his wife Else and son Bryce, probably at their Sydney home in Darling Point around 1921. The three of them pose for the camera.

Four young children are filmed playing with strips of 35mm film in the Higgins’ back garden.

Moving image coverage of the 1909 VFL Grand Final, the earliest known surviving film of Australian Rules football action.

September in Melbourne is Aussie Rules footy finals time! The city is abuzz and NFSA is screening footage of one of its most important sporting films in the heart of Melbourne at Federation Square, from 8 to 25 September, 2010.