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.

This audio clip is from the original recording, made in London by the Queen’s Hall Light Orchestra, of Charles Williams’ 'Majestic Fanfare’.

The British Commonwealth Occupation Force was in Japan from 1946–52, with two squadrons of the Royal Australian Air Force based at Iwakuni near the village of Bofu (now Hofu).

Wander among the stunning landscape of a golf course that was established in 1916, later becoming the Shanghai Zoo in 1954.

This short film takes a look at the life of Queensland sugarcane cutters.