This clip, shot by the Archibald family, shows a little girl’s birthday party in the early 1930s.

At Echo Point in the Blue Mountains, lovers Jack (Harry Cantor) and Jill (Margaret Jackson) begin their quest to find a £500 cheque hidden in the area.

Along the panoramic drive which skirts the heights of the Blue Mountains, people come in search of beauty and hidden treasures.

Production still from 1939 comedy Gone to the Dogs, starring George Wallace.

Black-and-white actuality footage of three women walk along the shoreline of Blackmans Bay Beach in Tasmania. They then cartwheel across the sand.

In this 1932 travelogue shot and narrated by Frank Hurley, rat tails bring a reward of sixpence each (equivalent to about $5 today) and Lord Howe Island locals join the hunt for the pests.

George (George Wallace), Henry (John Dobbie) and their dog Aloysius are trapped in the haunted house, the lair of master criminal Dr Sunderman.

This clip shows dog owners and their canine pets on proud display at the Centenary Dog Club at Melbourne Showgrounds.

Only a few Efftee newsreels have survived and this one is a vivid record of Melbourne society at play in the 1930s, complete with a society party in South Yarra.

A news broadcast helped the NFSA solve the mystery of the young boy who climbed the Sydney Harbour Bridge in March 1932.