A short sequence of contemporary nightlife in The Rocks, showing it active with live music, restaurants and tourist attractions.

Summary by Damien Parer

A Cinesound Review newsreel story about the premiere of UK-Australian film The Overlanders at the Lyceum Theatre in Sydney on 27 September 1946.

Home movie footage of the Wirth family at work and play. Performers and family members in costume perform routines for the camera.

Green Valley was a housing commission estate in western Sydney, much maligned by the media of the day. The residents were hurt by the criticism but lacked access to the media to respond.

Shows metropolitan life in and around Sydney as well as some shots of other cities.

Sydney, Australia, is established as the location of the film and the narration introduces the film’s premise and establishes the filmmaker as the story-teller.

God calls on Arthur Stace to write 'Eternity’ on the pavements of Sydney.

Summary by Damien Parer

Paddington is one of Sydney's oldest suburbs. It has developed in a similiar way to New York's Greenwich Village or London's Chelsea and in 1970 became Sydney's artist colony.

Centennial Park, which is situated on Gadigal land, opened in 1888.

Made by Film Australia in 1975. Directed by Michael Edols. The scene is Sydney's famous landmark, Paddy's Market.