Performing cockatoos, the Melbourne Exhibition Building (now the Royal Exhibition Building) and Australia's first aquarium feature in this Cine Service production from 1949.

A Cinesound Review newsreel story about the premiere of UK-Australian film The Overlanders at the Lyceum Theatre in Sydney on 27 September 1946.

Shows metropolitan life in and around Sydney as well as some shots of other cities.

Hollywood actress Lauren Bacall talks about overcoming a case of nervous shakes on the set of her first big movie.

Amateur filmmaker Neville Govett talks about his footage of Brisbane at the end of the Second World War in September 1945.

This 1947 film features the character Ginger Meggs, who spreads a message, via his comics, of vehicle safety and traffic safety.

This is an excerpt from colour home movies made between 1944 and 1948 by Reverend James McCarthy, the Superintendent of the Presbyterian Mission on Mornington Island.

A visit to Sydneys 1947 Royal Easter Show, displaying the wealth of Australia and its products of farm and factory. Made by The National Film Board 1947. Directed by Jack S Allan.

This is a spectacularly well-handled sequence, made more effective by the fact that we see the actors doing it for real.