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.

Acrobat, dancer and performer Evelyn Albrecht poses for the camera. The troupe of young female acrobats then perform routines in a Melbourne park.

Wirth's Circus arrives at Geelong and prepares for a performance.

CSIRAC was the first fully automatic electronic digital computer to be built in Australia. It was also one of the first in the world, so why didn't Australia become a computer superpower?

Made soon after the Second World War ended, this promotional film from the National Film Boa

This recording, sung in Italian, is from the opera Don Carlos by Verdi.

This song was originally composed by Dorothy Stewart for the Australia Day dinner held by the Australian Society of New York in 1940.

Marjorie Stedeford was a jazz singer who was known for her deep voice. She was born in Melbourne in 1909 and started her musical career there in the late 1920s.