Cec Morrison and his orchestra perform the jazz standard ‘Dinah’, introduced as ‘an old number with a new rhythm’.

The Cinesound Movietone Australian Newsreel Collection held at the NFSA comprises 4,000 newsreels from 1929 to 1975.

By 1955, although Europe was still highly influential, the focus had shifted to Australian designers and Australian-made fashion.

In a huge moment for Australian fashion, this was the first time original fashions designed by Christian Dior were seen outside Paris.

This iconic and Academy Award-winning newsreel shot by Damien Parer contains some of the most recognised images of Australian troops in the Second World War.

This Movietone News special edition newsreel marks the nationwide celebrations at the end of the Second World War.

This Movietone News special edition newsreel marks the nationwide celebrations at the end of the Second World War.

This newsreel features footage of the opening ceremony of the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney. These were the third Empire Games and the first to be held in the southern hemisphere.

This newsreel special of the 1964 Beatles tour captures footage of the band in Sydney, Melbourne and New Zealand, concert excerpts and the attendant 'Beatlemania’.

First section of the newsreel, covering the National Stomp Championships of Feb 1964.