TAGGED: 1910s
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This film from c1916 features various wartime fundraising and recruitment activities.

It was shot from outside the General Post Office in Martin Place, Sydney, after rain.

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Workers on the roof and outside a Christian church in Paisley Street, Footscray, prepare it for demolition.

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This short piece of actuality footage shows people at St Kilda including at the entrance to Luna Park, Daylight Pictures Cinema and a jetty at the beach.

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This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1920 shows injured soldiers from Caulfield Military Hospital attending a special matinee screening of a

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The title consists of two separate items - 'Departure of the Australian Expeditionary Force' and 'Departure of Reinforcements for the Front'.

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Film strip from a film called Les Chats showing cats in a flying machine.

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This slide shows Walter Burley Griffin's Preliminary Plan of 1913 with his proposal for roads, water features and land use for the central area of Canberra.

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This slide shows a plan, two cross-section drawings and a longitudinal section drawing of the road between Vernon, which Walter Burley Griffin also called the Civic Centre, and Market Centre, which

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The NFSA has acquired 24 glass slides by Walter Scott Griffiths illustrating his alternative vision for Australia’s future capital city.