This clip is an excerpt from the documentary A Nation is Built (1938), featuring actuality footage from a surf-livesaving carnival at a Sydney beach.

A scene from the NFSA Restores digital restoration of Raymond Longford's 1919 film The Sentimental Bloke, starring Arthur Tauchert and Lottie Lyell.

The unveiling of a monument for Alan David Mitchell, the first soldier from Manly, New South Wales to die in the First World War.

A highlight of the Queen Mother's 1958 visit to Australia was a surf-lifesaving carnival held in her honour at North Steyne, Manly on Sydney's Northern beaches.

As the first day of the Australian summer looms, this 1948 clip from Australian Diary looks at a day trip to Manly Beach.