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.

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

This 1960 newsreel, narrated by newsreader Brian Henderson, was made shortly after the kidnapping of 8-year-old Graeme Thorne, who was taken not far from his family home in Bondi on his w

The crew that captured the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge outside the Cinesound Productions studio.