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

Hodgson, Windon and another player make themselves useful to a Sister by balling yarn and the team undertake more established drills to maintain their fitness. Some of the men can be seen wear

The Australian Rugby Union Tour stops over in Colombo, Aden and Suez Canal

This 1931 version of ‘Along the Road to Gundagai’, composed by Jack O’Hagan in 1921, is performed by popular singer of the day Peter Dawson.

Children with their dogs gather outside the Orpheum Theatre in North Sydney and the nearby Cremorne Orpheum on Military Road, Cremorne in Sydney.

The interior of the Ambassadors Theatre in Perth, Western Australia showing seating in the upper circle.

A Movietone News newsreel story about the premiere of the Oscar-winning In Old Chicago (Henry King, USA, 1937) at the Regent Theatre in Sydney on 21 May 1938.

The Minerva Theatre on Orwell St, Kings Cross in Sydney, after it opened in May 1939.

Douglas Fairbanks Jnr and Katharine Hepburn in a still from the film Morning Glory (USA, Lowell Sherman, 1933).

Joan Crawford in a still from Dancing Lady (USA, Robert Z Leonard, 1933). From the Taussig film stills collection.