In June 1927 Bert Ive produced the best surviving Ballarat documentary of the silent era.

Another song about Sydney was written and recorded around the same time by Maurice Chenoweth, a well known ‘silvery tenor’.

The NFSA has five separate versions of the song, O! Sydney I Love You, including two by Len Maurice, perhaps recorded at the same session.

The opening of the Columbia pressing plant in 1926 with its brand new technology of electrical (as distinct from purely acoustic) recording opened the doors to Australian performers to record their

The Capitol Theatre was opened by the Governor-General, Baron Stonehaven, on 8 December 1927. The Capitol was an immense, white, rectangular structure.

Federal Parliament House in Canberra was opened with much ceremony on 9 May 1927 by the Duke of York, later King George VI.