'Nearly 60,000 school children are being given the privilege of crossing the Sydney Harbour Bridge before its opening' in March 1932.

This footage from 20 March 1938 is from the Maryborough Railway employees’ picnic held at Scarness, Queensland.

Over a montage of slum housing in the city of Brisbane, a voice-over talks of the plight of the poor and ‘indecently housed’.

This is a moving portrait of the charity work of the Brisbane City Mission for the poor at a time when many people struggled financially because of the Depression.

Shows the work of the Melbourne Motor Police Patrol. Opens with a pan shot of a number of men in plain clothes, presumably detectives, outside a police station and sitting in stationary cars.

Samuel François-Steininger has colourised footage from the NFSA collection of the last Tasmanian Tiger in captivity.

This film examines the process of peach canning from the orchard to the can. From the Film Australia Collection, made by the Cinema Branch and directed by GA Gamon.

A short film dealing with the cultivation and export of citrus fruit in Australia.

Typical Beau Smith direction – there’s absolutely no explanation of what a line of dancing girls is doing on the edge of Dad Hayseed’s land, no establishing shots to give us a sense of the farm, no

The lion is one of the most iconic symbols of Lunar New Year festivities.