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.

This film features the wonderful camerawork of Ron Taylor.

Taylor had worked with The Commonwealth Film Unit on a number of films and his work was well regarded here and overseas.

Olivia Newton-John (1948–2022) singing ‘When I Grow Up’ on the live music television show Boomeride (1965).

This is a segment from the Parliamentary debate in 1965 concerning Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War.

Black-and-white historical interview footage gets the response of white folk to Aboriginal people.

Young children in Moree are given permission to go to the swimming pool with the university students led by Charles Perkins.

This collection of Cadbury advertisements provides a wonderful snapshot of the changing attitudes towards dating, romance and fun in Australia from the 1950s to the 1970s. 

This is an excerpt from Adelaide TV station NWS9's 1966 production of The Story of Dick Whittington.

Watch clips from three of the annual Christmas pantomimes produced for TV in the 1960s by NWS9 in Adelaide.

NWS9's production of Aladdin.