This collection celebrates the work of the McDonagh sisters. In the 1920s, they became the first women to own and operate a film production company in Australia.

In this excerpt from a 1974 oral history interview with silent-era filmmaker Paulette McDonagh, she recalls her experience filming Don Bradman at the height of his cricketing career

This still is from the production of the McDonagh sisters film Two Minutes Silence (1932).

Kangaroos are hunted in the bush to be collected for museums and zoos. A kangaroo hide is presented to the camera. Kangaroos hop into a fenced enclosure and are trapped there.

The NFSA celebrates Valentine's Day with recently restored footage of a unique wedding ceremony in the skies over Sydney in 1932.

A view from the plane looking across to two bi-planes. Bride and groom getting married, the kiss, looking out from the plane and then landing to be greeted by a large crowd.

The Film Australia documentary Fair Play (1988) looks back over the the last 50 years of women's test cricket between Australia and England.

For thousands of Australian women and girls, cricket is not just a sport for the boys, but a way of life.

This is a segment of home movie footage believed to have been filmed in 1933 by Arthur Thomas Sullivan, a merchant and amateur photographer, who was a resident of Thursday Island in the Torres

This rare footage from 1939 shows the