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Australasian Gazette – Mermaids Swim Well (c1931)
This Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1931 shows highlights of the Bondi Ladies’ Annual Carnival at the local Bondi Baths, now known as the Bondi Icebergs. Edna Davey is shown well in front in the mile championship; the Bondi Club ... [read more]
The Food Lovers’ Guide to Australia – Series 5 Episode 3 (2004)
While Maeve O’Mara has crossed the desert to eat at a terrific Greek taverna in Coober Pedy, Joanna Savill is in the Torres Straits to take part in a local feast. [read more]
Big bad Granny (1992)
Noeline Baker’s insistence that Paul Baker and wife Dione could and should do better to provide for their newborn son is exacerbating tensions that have long existed between Paul and his mother. [read more]
Building a Motor Body (c1925)
This film shows the building of a car motor body at the Holden Motor Body Builders at Woodville, near Adelaide, in South Australia. Scenes depict the pressing of steel panels to form the car bodies and the assembly of the ... [read more]
Australia Today – Australia’s 5th Column (1941)
The opening title card to this Australia Today newsreel declares that Australia is at war and threatened by a ruthless enemy whose objective is the ‘downfall of the British Empire’. That enemy is the ‘5th Column’. [read more]
Down Under (1981)
‘Down Under’ was recorded for Men At Work’s first album ‘Business as Usual’ in 1981. It has become an Australian icon recognised internationally and considered by many to be an unofficial national anthem. [read more]
Puberty Blues (1981)
Debbie (Nell Schofield) and Sue (Jad Capelja) want to be accepted by the tough surfie chicks at their school, on Sydney’s southern beaches, but once in the group, they find it hard to conform. They’re expected to sit on the ... [read more]
The Getting of Wisdom (1978)
In the early 1900s, Laura Tweedle Ramsbotham (Susannah Fowle) arrives at an exclusive Melbourne ladies’ college to jeers of 'country bumpkin’ and 'tweedle-dumb, ram’s bum’. Spirited and talented though she is, the pressure to fit in almost defeats her, until ... [read more]
The Circuit – It’s a Long Way Home (2007)
Young lawyer Drew Ellis (Aaron Pedersen) arrives in Broome to work for the Aboriginal Legal Service. His first day is a disaster: he crashes his car en route and is arrested through a misunderstanding. He is rescued by Sam Wallan ... [read more]
Polska (1991)
The documentary looks at Poland in 1991 through the eyes of journalist national, Beata Ligman. She visits different areas of her country talking to the ordinary people about their lives. Reference is made to the German occupation during the Second ... [read more]
Timber Getting in New South Wales (c1925)
Presented by Australasian Films, this silent film looks at the timber industry in New South Wales. It shows methods of timber-felling, the transportation of logs by steel cables and bullock teams, and the main depot in Langley Vale, New South ... [read more]
Foreign Exchange - Episode 2, Shark Attack (2004)
Fourteen-year-old Brett Miller (Zachary Garred) has discovered an amazing portal In the old Perth beach house where he lives, which takes him to Ireland. When Irish girl Hannah O’Flaherty (Lynn Styles) finds out about it, she wants to come to ... [read more]
The Stranger – Series 1 Episode 1 (1964)
One rainy night a stranger (Ron Haddrick), suffering from amnesia and with no discernible heartbeat, is found unconscious on the doorstep of the Walsh family home. He is welcomed inside by high school principal Mr Walsh (John Faassen), his wife ... [read more]
The Sydney Morning Herald (1911)
This Pathé documentary short produced for the Commonwealth Government in April 1911 shows the newspaper printing process of the Sydney Morning Herald. The film begins with the unloading of paper from a steamer at dock and progresses through the printing ... [read more]
Sheep to Shop: Hosiery and Knitted Goods (1924)
Produced by Herschells Films for the Made in Australia Council, this documentary promotes Australia’s wool industry and the production of high-grade woollen garments. [read more]
The Australian Flying Corps in France, England and Palestine (1919)
In France in early 1918, the newly renamed squadrons of the Australian Flying Corps are busily engaged in the aerial war against a resurgent German force. At No. 3 Squadron, an Australian cameraman films preparation of an RE8 aircraft for ... [read more]
Deck Dogz (2005)
Three teenage friends in western Sydney spend their lives on skateboards, clashing with police, parents and the school principal. Jay ‘Spasm’ Filkins (Sean Kennedy) dreams of being a professional skater, like his hero, Tony Hawk. Robert ‘Poker’ Benardi (Richard Wilson) ... [read more]
While There is Still Time (1941)
This is a short wartime documentary made by Charles and Elsa Chauvel for the Commonwealth Department of Information (DOI). It encourages Australians at home to work and save to help their loved ones overseas fighting the war. Grace (Dorothy ... [read more]
Peach’s Australia – Darling River (1976)
The travel journalist Bill Peach continues his wander around the continent of Australia with a stop along the banks of the Darling River at Bourke in New South Wales. This was the centre of sheep grazing in Australia from the ... [read more]
The New Car (1953)
In the early 1900s, a well-to-do family eagerly await the delivery of their new Renault. When it arrives at their property, they pack a picnic lunch and go for an afternoon drive through the countryside. At the end of their ... [read more]
