We love this packaging for the Sankyo XL-60S, as it documents a typical evening at home in the 1970s: brown corduroy, pavlova and of course an impromptu piano accordion recital.

AC/DC lead guitarist Angus Young’s schoolboy costume is one of the most iconic looks in rock music, and was completed by his felt ‘A’ schoolboy cap. 

This daybill poster for the oceangoing documentary Blue Water, White Death (directed by Peter Gimbel and James Lipscomb, 1971) was a promotional tool to draw audiences to the cine

This Dot and the Kangaroo badge from 1977 would have been proudly worn by young fans. The production of a range of merchandise suggests how popular the animated children's film was.

Enjoy Living Through Yoga is a book by Swami Sarasvati published in 1975.

Garry McDonald as TV host Norman Gunston was both sublime and absurd, as evidenced in this comical still from 1979 in which he wears a formal top half (shirt and tie) and bush-trekking bottom

This is the pork chop guitar made famous on The Aunty Jack Show in the 1970s.

This image shows the original golden boxing glove worn by Grahame Bond as the title character in the ABC's Logie Award-winning TV variety program, The Aunty Jack Show&nbs

This image shows the striped, straw boater hat that became synonymous with Aunty Jack's well-dressed but shirtless sidekick, Thin Arthur, who was played by Rory O'Donoghue.

Some items in the National Film and Sound archive collection are in pristine condition; others, not so much.