TAGGED: 1960s
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This clip was aimed at visitors to Starlight Drive-In, located in the suburb of Watson to the north of Canberra and operating from 1957 to 1993.

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This silent Movietone newsreel clip shows Melbourne's Moomba Festival parade of 1960.

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'Come over to the sunny side [of the globe] now'. Directed at British citizens, this UK television advertisement promotes migration to Australia in 1967.

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This Movietone News clip shows Australian troops embarking for Vietnam in 1965.

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Action in Vietnam is a documentary produced by the Australian Commonwealth Film Unit.

This clip from the documentary provides an insight into Australian soldiers in Vietnam.

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This short newsreel clip from 1964 looks at controversial 'topless' women's swimwear. It notes the changes in women's swimsuits since the 1920s.

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This TV commercial conjures up the 1960s par excellence, with a discotheque playing host to a young, groovy couple dancing under a glittering ball and eating Crunchie bars.

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Brett Whiteley, Australian avant-garde artist, is interviewed by Binny Lum in London, England in 1964.

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This clip shows the restored opening of Go!! episode 117, transmitted on 28 November 1966, featuring Johnny Young.

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For sheer whimsy, it is hard to go past the one minute and forty seconds of 'He’s My Blond Headed Stompie Wompie Real Gone Surfer Boy’ by the 14-year-old Little Pattie.