This excerpt from a Cinesound Review newsreel from 1954 is a great example of the perennial upbeat Christmas story.

Excerpt from Fox Movietone coverage of the Melbourne Cup on 4 November 1930.

The greatest technological advances of the 20th century were arguably about the broadcasting of messages.

In this clip, Tim Bowden explains that newsreels were how people received their visual 'current affairs fix' before television.

Ray Edmondon describes how, following the advent of television in 1956, newsreels in Australia shared the common fate of cinema newsreels in other parts of the world.

In this 1917 newsreel, troops from the Engineers’ Depot rehearse a raid on enemy trenches and are instructed by their commanding officers over the telephone.

Fifty surprising, heartwarming and weirdly wonderful items from the NFSA collection.

This newsreel reconstructs the coronial inquest into the Pyjama Girl mystery, one of the most baffling unsolved murder cases in Australian criminal history.

This 1930s newsreel recounts the coronial inquest into the Pyjama Girl mystery, one of the most baffling unsolved murder cases in Australian criminal history.

The first Academy Award ever won by an Australian is in the NFSA collection.