Amateur filmmaker Ewan Murray-Will captured unique and candid images of one of the world’s greatest dance companies. 

In this brief colour sequence from the ballet Thamar, Thamar seduces a man whom she is going to lure to her castle before killing him.

In the final scenes from Léonide Massine’s symphonic ballet Les Presages, dancers from the Ballets Russes du Monte Carlo move frenetically across the stage, performing a series of strange

Hélène Kirsova performs in this excerpt from the one-act ballet, Le Beau Danube. Ewan Murray-Will films the action from an elevated position left of the stage.

This home movie from 1929 shows Canberra residents playing in the snow in Civic, between the Sydney and Melbourne buildings.

This footage is from a collection of home movies made by colourful Englishman, Cecil Freer.

Michael Caine doing his own make-up on the set of the TV drama The Other Man, in 1964.

Still of Michael Caine on the set of the TV drama The Other Man, in 1964.

This home movie was filmed in spring 1941.

Victor Tarhanoff’s 16mm amateur footage is the earliest surviving colour images of Darwin. His beautiful films offer a unique insight into Darwin life before and after the Second World War.