Botany Bay (John Farrow, USA, 195

Limelight (Charlie Chaplin, USA,

In 1998, at the tail end of a highly successful career in the field of agricultural science, John Landy assisted the NFSA in helping to promote our latest video release, Melbourne: Films of the

This clip combines footage from Movietone News (NFSA title 28827) and Cinesound Review (NFSA title 55807) both released on 15 March 1956 showing the iconic one mile race where Clarke took a fall an

This is one of the best surviving films of John Landy in action is this report filmed by Cinesound cameras in January 1953. 

In this unissued Movietone News interview from March 1953 and most likely the earliest surviving footage to feature his voice, Landy describes, with typical modesty

This newsreel item from 1953 shows the activities of schoolchildren in Australia

This clip from a home movie, filmed by Australian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, shows Queen Elizabeth II arriving at Westminster Abbey in a horse-drawn carriage for her coronation on 2 June 1

Invitation for Melbourne-born Tenor William Herbert to attend, as a member of the choir, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

Daybill poster for Australian release of the film Elizabeth is Queen (British Pathe, 1953), documenting the coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953.