Get your gramophone running at its best with this Columbia speed tester!

An Australian interpreter of Hawaiian music, crooner Johnny Wade and his band recorded the mesmerising tune ‘Magnetic Island' in 1950.

This 1950 ukulele and case is notable for belonging to Johnny Wade, Australia's best-known performer of Hawaiian material.

Before the pocket-sized Nagra was created, the Telefunken Minifon P55 was the smallest wire recorder on the market.

Throughout the history of amateur filmmaking, there were lots of accessories available to make home movies look more professional, such as these individual letter decals, which the company Wh

Marketed as a machine of ‘beauty, quality, performance and low price’, this Mansfield Holiday II camera capitalised on the popularity of holidays as appropriate subject matter for amateur filmmaker

To experience the illusion of viewing three-dimensional images, 1950s cinema audiences were required to wear cardboard and cellophane glasses with one blue and one red lens like this set from 1952.

Johnny O’Keefe (1935–1978) was Australia’s first homegrown rock star.

Production designer and art director Bernard Hides purchased this 1965 portable Astor Royal television from a second-hand dealer in Melbourne to dress the set for the TV series Sword of Honour

Model and TV presenter Panda Lisner was awarded Best Female Personality at the first TV Week Awards in 1959, and her statuette is an important part of the NFSA collection.