This silent footage is only a small part of a personal collection donated to Film Australia in 2006 and now part of the NFSA FAC Library collection.

'The victims of motor car accidents are very often pedestrians. Sometimes they can be unpredictable but often they are innocent victims'. 

Once you have a sound knowledge of driving fundamentals: checking, starting, stopping, steering, gear changing and braking, with practice these things become almost automatic.

Learn how to correctly steer the car as well as the correct methods of gear changing and braking. The car featured is a vintage XT Falcon with manual transmission with a gear shift on the

This short would have been shown before a feature in movie theatres around Australia.

Film Australia Collection © National Film and Sound Archive.

This dramatised film features Noah Taylor in one of his first screen roles.

This advertisement for road safety begins with a cricket match.

Don't drink and drive! A jazz band gives extra appeal to this road safety trailer on the dangers of mixing drinking and driving.