A Winter Strawride. United States, 1906. From The Corrick Collection; courtesy National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.

Street Scenes in Perth, Western Australia (Australia, 1907). From The Corrick Collection; courtesy National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA).

La Ruche Merveilleuse (France, 1905). From The Corrick Collection; courtesy National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. 

La Peine du Talion. France, 1905. From The Corrick Collection.

Percy Herford was a well known performer in Australia from the 1890s on. 'The Black Watch' is a black wax cylinder record and the only example from the output of the Australia Record Company&n

Amy Castles recorded this song from Verdi’s opera Rigoletto in September 1906 in London. It is one of her earliest commercial recordings.

This short excerpt comes from Charles Urban's travelogue Living London.

In 1901-02, Baldwin Spencer and Frances James (FJ) Gillen undertook an anthropological research expedition to Central Australia.

The UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage takes place on 27 October. To celebrate we go behind the scenes with an early cinema home entertainment system: the Kinora.