Crowds of people line the footpath and cross the street outside the State Theatre in Sydney for a nighttime screening of A Town Like Alice, circa 1956.

Margaret Dingle as little Jedda playing with crayons and a rolling pin. 

Kindly donated by Beth Gower in memory of Harry Closter.

The film crew on the set of Jedda (1955) wrangle a crocodile.

Ngarla Kunoth (Jedda) and Betty Suttor (Sarah) on set with Charles Chauvel and camera crew filming a scene from Jedda. 

Portrait of Ngarla Kunoth in Jedda.

Kindly donated by Beth Gower in memory of Harry Closter.

Johnny O’Keefe initially saw television as just another gig, but soon realised the power of the medium to reach and build a national audience.

Listen to a Q&A with director Sonia Bible at Arc cinema in 2021, after a screening of her documentary The Witch of Kings Cross.

Annette Kellerman was 70 years old when this silent home movie footage was filmed.

This is an excerpt from a mute trailer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Million Dollar Mermaid (Mervyn LeRoy, USA, 1952).

This tourist promotional film for Melbourne was made as it geared up for the staging of the 1956 Olympic Games.