This early cinema ad appeals to the ‘pester power’ of children by using an animated cartoon to promote Sellex products.

Three year old Victor Willey Jr gives a customer a smooth shave with a sharp razor, at his father's barbershop in Sydney's Brighton-Le-Sands in 1938.

A spotlight on Mavis Ripper, a pioneer of Australian costume design for film and theatre.

Still from the film Tall Timbers (1928) starring Shirley Ann Richards.

This is a short excerpt from Community Broadcasting Association radio program Arts Alive from 2005, featuring an interview with author Richard Evans. 

This newsreel reconstructs the coronial inquest into the Pyjama Girl mystery, one of the most baffling unsolved murder cases in Australian criminal history.

This 1930s newsreel recounts the coronial inquest into the Pyjama Girl mystery, one of the most baffling unsolved murder cases in Australian criminal history.

Filmed in slow motion, Tamara Toumanova, wearing a green and black swimsuit, performs a series of leaps and poses on the sand at Bungan Beach. Summary by Poppy de Souza.

Margaret Macallum visits a quiet stretch of the Anatoki River in Nelson Province, New Zealand, where she feeds the local eels.

Kellerman was 52 years old when her husband and manager Jimmie Sullivan filmed this rare footage of her performing the underwater adagio - a slow ballet dance.