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.

'Paris Comes to Sydney: Lavish French Exhibition at Royal Show' shows Australian enthusiasm for all things French at the Royal Easter Show in Sydney in 1956.

The first aerial fashion show held on a TAA flight between Perth and Sydney.

The highlight of this newsreel segment about Australian sheep is a model in woollen clothing walking down the catwalk with a huge ram by her side.

Models show the latest swimming costume fashions at the first annual beach inspectors' dinner in 1955.

Students from Parramatta Central Home Science High School in Sydney model dresses they have made. The designs are inspired by French fashion.