[1] In the first twelve months of its operation the WEA Film Study Group had presented such films as "Kameradschaft", "The Sentimental Bloke", "Animal Farm", "The Last Laugh", "The Titan" and "Berlin Olympic Games".
These included an Eisenstein Weekend held in October, 1963 with one of the speakers being filmmaker Gil Brealey.
On 3 and 4 December 1966, the society held a non-residential film weekend on D. W. Griffith, with such features as Way Down East (1920), Orphans of The Storm (1922), and Isn't Life Wonderful (1924) being shown.
Notable Committee members include Ian Klava, John Flaus, Denis Trimas, Doug Roberts, Tom Politis, and Leth Maitland.
The Society's screening room is located on the ground floor of the WEA Centre at 72 Bathurst Street, Sydney.
Films including animation and avant-garde programs came from Australia, the USA, Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the former USSR, Egypt and India.
Silent films projected at appropriate speed, with well-chosen accompaniment continue to be popular.
They celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its founding by screening two films on 27 February 2011.