TAGGED: 1930s
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The NFSA is sharing rarely seen moving images from the landmark Test Cricket series of summer 1932–33, digitally preserved from our source 35mm nitrate film components.

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A panning shot around the stands at the S.C.G. shows a huge crowd present at a 1933 test match between England and Australia.

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Hear the only known recording of AFL legend Haydn Bunton, 'the Bradman of football'.

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This collection presents highlights from Commonwealth Games held in Australia in 1938, 1962, 1982 and 2006.

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This rare home movie footage from 1939 features the Australian rugby union team en route to the UK – and a tour that would never take place due to the outbreak of war.

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Poster for the 1938 NSW Government film A Nation is Built (Frank Hurley) featuring an Aboriginal man with a shield and spear standing with a sailing ship behind him, above is a British sol

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This segment from Australia To-Day features a man handling snakes, milking venom and treating a snakebite. 

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The Australian Rugby Union team, the Wallabies, leaving Sydney on the 1939 - 1940 tour of the UK

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The Australian Rugby Union team, the Wallabies, onbraod the RMS Moolton on the 1939 - 1940 tour of the UK.

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Home movie footage from the Australian Rugby Union Tour of 1939 to 1940, filmed onboard the RMS Mooltan.