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There was dancing in the street and tea on the river front when the Jacaranda Festival sprung to life in the last week of October in 1949. The...
Jacaranda Festival
A documentary about the city of Broken Hill in New South Wales.
Barrier Story
A road safety lesson using puppets and animation kindergarten age children.
David And Jennifer Learn Their Kerb Drill
In Australia, children live in the Outback, too far from others to travel to any school. The Australian government has a school with no student only...
School in the Mailbox
Canberra, the National Capital of Australia, is a city which has been planned; a place where modern living is enriched by a lovely setting. But the...
Canberra Today and Tomorrow
This year the Musica Viva Festival will feature content from the NFSA's Film Australia Collection to be screened in the Bang & Olufsen Salon...
Music Camp
This film about Library services in Australia shows some of the work of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library, the National Library with its varied...
The Case For Books
Made by the Department of Immigration to entice immigrants from Great Britain, this film shows an idyllic picture of life in the New South Wales...
Life in Australia: Wagga Wagga
In the estuaries and lagoons of the Northern Territory, freshwater and saltwater crocodile are hunted for their hides by both Indigenous and...
Crocodile Hunters
Shows new methods in treating those afflicted with mental health issues. Contrasts past treatment regimes where people were locked away out of sight...
Under Stress
Made by the Department of Immigration to entice immigrants from Great Britain, this film shows an idyllic picture of life in the South Australian...
Life in Australia: Mount Gambier
Made by the National Film Board 1949. Directed by Bern Gandy. The expanding activities of the Post Office to cater for communications in an ever...
Forward Communications
Made by The National Film Board 1947. Directed by Catherine Duncan. Christmas in Australia is a mid summer festival, with temperatures rising high. ...
Christmas Under the Sun
Life in Australia: Hobart shows scenes illustrating daily life, industry, recreation and the tourist features of Hobart, Tasmania.
Life in Australia: Hobart
Can't find what you are looking for? All you have to do is ask. Such advice is not so straightforward when you can't speak the language. By 1951,...
Double Trouble
Beautifully filmed in black and white, this classic short film looks at pearling in the late 1940s. It goes on board the boats that work off the...
The Pearlers
A documentary about mining.
Millions for the Finding
The way of life for people living along the tropic of Capricorn in Queensland 1965. Farming and mining are the main industries in this area of...
Men Of Capricorn
Produced by The National Film Board 1945. Directed by Maslyn Williams. When this film was made, Canberra was one of the world's youngest planned...
National Capital
Original archival synopsis: The Japanese bombed Darwin many times during World War II because it was strategically important target number one in...
Darwin: Doorway to Australia