Pilar ‘Pilita’ Garrido Corrales (1937–2025) was one of the first women to make the Australian pop charts with a locally produced record - her hit single ‘Come Closer to Me’, in 1959.

We're sharing three full-length episodes of popular horror and thriller radio serials of the 1940s and '50s.

For World Home Movie Day on 20 October we share early colour home movies of Sydney and San Francisco from award-winning filmmaker and NFSA Ambassador, Anthony Buckley.

This film contains footage shot by Anthony Buckley of his visit to San Francisco in 1958–59.

This film contains footage shot by Anthony Buckley of the Grand Canyon in 1958–59. He recalled of the experience:

This film contains footage shot by Anthony Buckley of the completion of the Circular Quay Railway Station in Sydney.

This 8mm footage of Wirth's Circus was shot by unknown American tourists who filmed in Australia and New Zealand in the 1950s.

Smoky Dawson (Herbert Henry Brown, 19 March 1913 – 13 February 2008) shows off his knife-throwing skills with an unknown man serving as his brave assistant.

Excerpt from Overland Adventure: The Story of the 1954 Redex Reliability Trial.

The very first TV Week Awards for the year 1958 were announced in the magazine January 1959.