From the Film Australia Collection. Made by The National Film Board 1953. A tourist promotion for Melbourne with a difference.

This near-complete silent film of the 1909 VFL Grand Final is the earliest known surviving footage of Australian Rules football action.

Music store Allan's is still in existence,  as Allans Billy Hide. The Melbourne CBD store is now located at 152 Bourke St.

One of Melbourne's iconic trams. Still taken from The Melbourne Wedding Belle, 1953 - Film Australia Collection © NFSA

More than a million train passengers a day go through the gates at Flinders Street Station, Melbourne. Claimed to be the largest one station traffic in the world.

Future soap opera star Elspeth Ballantyne sells BBQ chicken in this film about life in the Victorian capital of Melbourne, 1966.

In what is believed to be the earliest known surviving footage of St Kilda, this clip shows the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of York at St. Kilda Pier, 6 May 1901.

Through this glass slide we catch a glimpse of a European perspective of Australia, circa 1895.

The NFSA looks to the television collection to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Channel 10 in Melbourne, then known as ATV0.