Betty Bryant on the set of Forty Thousand Horsemen wearing a peasant dress and reclining among earthenware pots.

Filmmaker Ken G Hall appears on The Mike Walsh Show with the two different Oscars he received for the newsreel Kokoda Front Line (1942).

Players wear roller skates in a mixed doubles tennis match played in Melbourne in this newsreel clip from 1940.

A printed glass slide manufactured by Allan & Co. and featuring the lyrics to Jack O'Hagan's 'Let's Have One For the Road'.

The third and last of Jack O’Hagan’s popular songs about Gundagai, after 'Along the Road to Gundagai’ (1922) and ‘Where the Dog Sits on the Tuckerbox (Five Miles from Gund

We're sharing three full-length episodes of popular horror and thriller radio serials of the 1940s and '50s.

Film curator Tara Marynowsky looks at a preserved collection of 16mm home movies of Wirth's Circus and the family that ran it.

The procession of performers and circus acts passes by the camera to enter the big top arena including horses, clowns and elephants.

The members of Wirth’s Circus and Zoo parade down the main street as a large crowd looks on. The parade includes elephants, clowns, performers on horseback and caged animals.