From 1879-1914, the Australian-based Corrick Family Entertainers toured Australia, South-East Asia and Europe.

One of Australia’s greatest silent films celebrates its 100th anniversary with a new digital restoration by the NFSA.

This clip features imagery of the film For the Term of his Natural Life (originally released in 1927, but restored by the NFSA in 1981).

In  2019, the NFSA restored one of Australia's most famous films from the silent era, The Sentimental Broke (Raymond Longford, 1919).

Excerpt from a silent comedy short directed by Stan Laurel and starring Australian comic Clyde Cook, James Finlayson, Tyler Brooke and an 18-year-old Fay Wray, of King Kong (1933

Restoring 'The Cheaters', a 1929 silent film by the pioneering McDonagh sisters.

This Kiwi shoe polish cinema advertisement is a short narrative about two boys who want to apply for the vacant positions at the Imperial Hotel, London.

Graham Shirley's portrait of the pioneering Australian filmmakers, the McDonagh Sisters – Isabel, Paulette and Phyllis.

This collection celebrates the work of the McDonagh sisters. In the 1920s, they became the first women to own and operate a film production company in Australia.

A behind-the-scenes photo from the set of The Cheaters (silent version, 1929).