[2] Many of the films shown were from the State Film Centre of Victoria (later known as ACMI), and during the 1960s MUFS screened at various locations around Melbourne, including Union Theatre, Carlton Moviehouse, and later Glasshouse Cinema in RMIT University during the 1980s,[3] and finally relocated to ACMI in 2002.
[3][4] In 1993 they partnered with AFI to run a National Cinémathèque,[5] where other states around Australia could collaborate on seasons of touring programs.
[6] 1995 saw the debut of OtherCinémathèque, a separate program of films at Erwin Rado Theatrette that were considered too esoteric or obscure for the National Cinémathèque.
[10] Their Virtual Cinémathèque sessions were made open to people outside of Melbourne via the internet.
Seasons have included A Band of Outsiders: The Cinematic Underworld of Jean-Pierre Melville, 'All Art is One': The Visionary Cinema of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Life is Art: The World of Jean Renoir, Glacial Crossroads: The Cinema of Michael Haneke, Surviving Kane: Around the World with Orson Welles, and The Music of Time: The World of Max Ophüls, as well as programs dedicated to German Noir, Yasujirō Ozu, Marco Bellocchio, Agnès Varda, Manoel de Oliveira and Barbara Stanwyck, amongst others.