Queensland Playground is a comprehensive look at the Gold Coast during the late 1950s.

This lighthearted newsreel story tells of a police raid on a Gold Coast pyjama party in 1959.

This silent newsreel clip shows people sunbaking on the Gold Coast.

From 1958, the Top 40 pop chart helped bring the golden age of radio to a close and kickstarted a new era.

John Laws concludes the broadcast of his 2SM radio program Sound in 1958.

It is also the opening night at 2SM's new studios in Clarence Street, Sydney.

The Winifred Atwell Show was a British radio series. It starred pianist Winifred Atwell with guest performers.

A mother takes her twin children, Janet and Michael, for a birthday outing to Sydney's Taronga Park Zoo.

8mm movie by unknown American tourists who filmed in Australia and New Zealand in the 1950s. The footage features Wirth’s Circus.

While making a preliminary survey of the Hunter River in 1797, Lieutenant John Shortland reported finding coal in the region.

This year, we're marking World Television Day on 21 November by sharing two recent ‘finds’ in the NFSA’s vast television collection.