This is a clip from a 1940s home movie with footage of a street parade through Sydney for Anzac Day in 1946.

Curator Heather Gill shares home movie footage of Anzac Day marches from 1933, 1946 and 1980.

In a burst of colour, eight children of various ages happily stream out of a suburban house and pile (miraculously) into a car waiting outside.

A recently donated film reveals the only known colour footage of Sir Donald Bradman playing cricket.

Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory. On the beach it’s time to play out one of the dramas of daily life – the return of the hunters.

Commentator John Moyes explains that men are making surfboards out of plywood. A line of surfers carry their boards down to the shore and paddle out towards the breakers.

This is an excerpt from the Rural Bank of NSW’s Agricultural Magazine of the Air , which ran on 17 New South Wales commercial stations in 1939 and was still on air in the 1950s.

In this excerpt from an oral history interview with Jack Grimsley, he discusses his early influences as a trombone player and his transition to the big time – playing with the Bob Gibson

With 125 million sheep spread across the country, and 90 thousand tons of lamb and 3 million tons of wool exported annually, Australia truly rode to prosperity on the sheep’s back.