There were several future film and TV makers shooting home movies at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne.

Shows the work of the Melbourne Motor Police Patrol. Opens with a pan shot of a number of men in plain clothes, presumably detectives, outside a police station and sitting in stationary cars.

Private footage of Australia’s ‘Queen of Song’ relaxing with her family at Coombe Cottage, her outer Melbourne residence in 1927.

In celebration of the 160th anniversary of Dame Nellie Melba’s birth, we reveal previously unseen private footage of Australia’s ‘Queen of Song’.

Jamie van Leeuwen is the filmmaker and photographer behind the Australia Locked Down project, a crowdsourced audiovisual library dedicated to recording the impact of COVID-19 in Australia.

Jamie van Leeuwen is the filmmaker and photographer behind the Australia Locked Down project, a crowdsourced audiovisual library dedicated to recording the impact of COVID-19 in Australia.

Jamie van Leeuwen is a photojournalist and filmmaker, based in Melbourne. 

A brief portrait of Melbourne as the venue of the 1956 Olympic Games.

A family conference in a deserted café about what to do in the wake of the murder of two cops in which the brothers have been involved.

In this teaser, leading in to Homicide’s opening title sequence, convict Edgar Thompson (Roy Alexander) is on the run after escaping from the prison farm at Beechworth.