This is an excerpt from Fashion Parades at Mark Foy’s (1947–56), Film Australia Collection © NFSA.

This Cine Service production from 1949 shows Australian stockman Peter Miller with his well-trained sulphur-crested cockatoos performing a remarkable series of tricks, including the

This American-inspired Superman adventure radio series for children was locally made and starred Brisbane native Leonard Teale as Superman and Margaret Christensen as Lois Lane.

This is the theme music and opening announcement from the long-running ABC radio drama Blue Hills (1949–76).

Summary by Matthew Davies

The Rural Bank of NSW’s Agricultural Magazine of the Air ran on 17 New South Wales commercial stations in 1939, and was still on air in the 1950s.

Lynn Foster wrote and directed the 1946 radio serial Crossroads of Life featuring Peter Finch and Thelma Scott.

Crossroads for Life was written and produced by Lynn Foster. In this scene Finch plays Stephen Crane with Thelma Scott as Julie Halsted his lover.

This 1946 radio drama, produced by Dorothy Crawford, tells the story of opera singer Nellie Melba’s life.

This is an extract from episode 7 of the 1940s radio crime drama Nightbeat, by Grace Gibson Productions.

Australian produced version of the long running American radio serial, originally starring Orson Welles.