Lew Ayres (left), Greta Garbo and Anders Randolf in The Kiss (USA, Jacques Feyder, 1929). From the Taussig film stills collection.

Buster Keaton (centre) in a scene from Battling Butler (USA, Buster Keaton, 1926). From the Taussig film stills collection.

This square tin portable gramophone was made for children. It includes a black horn, green felt platter and a wind-up key.

Approximate dimensions with lid open: 160mmx160mmx210mm.

Go behind-the-scenes at the circus with rare home movie footage of Australia's Con Colleano, the world-famous 'Wizard of the Wire'.

Caddie (1976) was so popular it ran for 54 weeks on one screen alone. The second part of our celebration of the film looks at its success and feminist legacy.

The first of this two-part series that looks back on the making of Caddie, a breakthrough feature of the Australian film revival of the 1970s.

Just another day at the races: Charlie Chaplin lookalikes and a Bathing Beauty competition from 1921.

In part three, Jeannette Delamoir considers what Franklyn Barrett's 1925 tour of Far North Queensland with The Ten Commandments tells us about Barrett, film attendance and regional Australian audiences.

In part two, Jeannette Delamoir describes filmmaker Franklyn Barrett's preparations for, and staging of, a live prologue to The Ten Commandments in Far North Queensland, 1925.

Hollywood, local filmmakers and regional Australia intersect in the story of Franklyn Barrett's touring of a live prologue to Cecil B DeMille's The Ten Commandments in Far North Queensland, 1925.