Annette Kellerman photographed during a visit to the set of Million Dollar Mermaid (1952). Esther William starred as Kellerman and is pictured wearing a gold sequined unitard.

Curator Simon Smith investigates the surviving footage of Australian television's opening night.

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.

Leonard Teale AO (1922–1994), born Leonard George Thiele, was a Logie-winning Australian TV, film and radio actor.

Chad Morgan is an Australian country music singer and guitarist, known for his comedic-styled country and western songs.

Cousins Olive McGuiness and Eva Bell were a harmony duo known as Olive and Eva, active in the 1950s.

Olive and Eva were a harmony duo active in the 1950s.

Scenes of a camping trip to Alice Springs in the 1950s.

Gustav Kovacs Home Movie, Migrating to Western Australia, 1951.

The NFSA celebrates Home Movie Day 2019 by participating in a Home Movie Marathon that also coincides with the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage.