Just before his 100th birthday, Eddie Vormister (1918–2024) contacted the NFSA about donating his homemade film projector and home cinema set-up.

An excerpt from Australia's Amateur Hour episode 901, recorded 27 June 1957 at Hibernian Hall, Cairns, Queensland.

Delight in this elegant sample of cinema and TV ads from the 1920s to 1960s for Australian underwear brand Berlei.

Berlei cinema and television advertisements and educational glass slides from the 1920s to the 1960s offer a window onto Australian fashion and social mores.

From the Film Australia Collection. The Richards Home Movie Collection was donated to Film Australia in 2006 where the collection of 16mm films were restored and digitised.

This is a newsreel story from 1953 about the arrival of an American rugby league team in Australia.

A young Nicole Kidman showcases her country dancing skills in this scene from the 1983 film Bush Christmas.
 

The stars of Australian radio serials and cinema touched the lives of many, but one Sydney teenager of the 1950s had the autograph book to prove it.