The closing credits state: ''Made by Foundation Year 1989 the Australian Film, Television and Radio School for the National Film & Sound Archive''.
This film, a mock newsreel, was distributed theatrically in Australia as a pre-feature short during the early 1990s as a promotion for the Australian National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA)'s ''Operation Newsreel'' and even was classified with a ''G'' rating by Australia's Office for Film and Literature Classification (OFLC).
This newsreel was commissioned to commemorate the beginning of the Operation Newsreel Project and was sponsored by major sponsors News Corporation Limited and The Greater Union Organisation.
This modern newsreel includes original archival newsreel footage inter-cut with black and white footage shot in 1989 at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
This film's closing title card reads: ''The Last Newsreel was generously sponsored by News Corporation Limited, the Greater Union Organisation, Colorfilm, Kodak, Filmworld, Samuelsons, Agfa-Gevaert''.