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Rinso Laundry Powder : Hilda and Hugh Jones (c1940)
This is a cinema advertisement promoting Rinso laundry powder. It takes the form of a short domestic drama in which Mrs Hilda Jones overcomes the drudgery of housework with the discovery of Rinso. Her husband Hugh is very relieved that ... [read more]
Small Treasures (1995)
Jane (voiced by Rachel Griffiths) is swimming in the sea she loves, full of joy in expectation of her first baby. Walking by the shore, she reaffirms her fulfilment and happiness. But at home she panics, imagining the worst domestic ... [read more]
Northern Safari (1956)
The film records a six-month journey by car, in 1955, from Perth to the Northern Territory and back, via Western Australia. Keith F Adams, his wife Audrey and sister Margaret together with Tiger, their fox terrier, made the trip in ... [read more]
Beautiful Middle Harbour (1927)
This silent black-and-white cinema advertisement for Castlecrag Estate promotes the new Sydney suburb. It features panoramic shots of Middle Harbour, Sydney including footage of the surrounding bushland and foreshores, a newly built stone house, a rooftop party, people walking through ... [read more]
My Mother Told Me (2007)
A woman pieces together fragments of her own and her mother’s past, from stories her mother tells her. The stories are about her mother’s life in a Cambodian village before the onset of war, her own birth as a refugee ... [read more]
Japanese Story (2003)
Sandy Edwards (Toni Collette), an ambitious young Perth geologist, flies north to Port Hedland to babysit the son of a Japanese industrialist, on a private visit. Hiromitsu Tachibana (Gotaro Tsunashima) marvels at the size of the iron ore mines, but ... [read more]
A Big Country – Perkins Navy (1979)
Bruce Perkins owns a fleet of flat-bottomed barges that help the people of northern Australia to inhabit some of the least accessible areas of the top end. [read more]
Hoyts and Studebaker Cinema Advertisement: Touring Talkie Show (c1929)
This silent advertisement promotes the new ‘Touring Talkie Show’ truck operated by Hoyts – with sponsorship from Studebaker Car Corporation and the Shell Oil Company. [read more]
Age Before Beauty (1980)
Designed to provoke thought and discussion, Age Before Beauty examines the issues around ageing, as it relates to women. The film combines interviews with women (young and old), with observational footage and narration to cover topics like social perceptions of ... [read more]
Buckley, Anthony: Buckley Family Collection: Tarn Shan Tin Mine, Thailand (c1928)
This silent 16mm home movie footage was shot by Horace Patrick Buckley in the late 1920s, while working in Thailand at the Tarn Shan Tin Mine. It includes footage taken at the mine, various street and village scenes in South-East ... [read more]
Winners – Top Kid (1985)
It’s 1947 and times are tough for ten-year-old Gary Doyle (Emil Minty), the third child of a large, poor Catholic family. Bright, and with a photographic memory, Gary is constantly picked on and beaten up by the boys at school. ... [read more]
Take Notice (1939)
A silent, black-and-white documentary made by the Sydney Unity Film Group about unfair rent rises and the petition for a fair rents court. [read more]
‘Know where the line is’ (2006)
Rugby league cheerleader and fan Hayley talks to camera about how she sees footballers as potentially unfaithful partners. Nightclub footage accompanies her story about a woman she knows who found herself in a difficult situation with two footballers. Hayley reflects ... [read more]
40,000 Years of Dreaming: A Century of Australian Cinema (1996)
George Miller presents a personal view of the historical and cultural influences that have shaped the development of Australian cinema since its beginning in 1896. [read more]
Prime Minister Rt Hon. WM Hughes visits Western Front (1918)
On 2 July 1918, in the final stages of the First World War, the Australian Prime Minister, Mr WM (Billy) Hughes and his deputy, Sir Joseph Cook, visited various Australian headquarters in France. They are seen arriving on the steps ... [read more]
Footy Chicks (2006)
Footy Chicks enters the world of AFL, league and union footballers and the women who pursue them. It explores the heady mix of alcohol, peer pressure and sexual desire, and the slippery boundary between having a good ... [read more]
Menzies 1948 Journey, Reel 1 (1948)
This home movie is the first reel of a four-part travelogue, filmed by Australian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, on a journey from Australia to England by the Menzies family in 1948. It begins with the ship’s departure at a ... [read more]
Whispering in Our Hearts (2001)
A documentary depicting the 1918 massacre of Aboriginal people at Mowla Bluff, Western Australia. The story of the massacre is told in interviews with surviving Nyikina, Mangala and Karajarri peoples, as well as through dramatised reenactments of the testimonials of ... [read more]
Rogue (2007)
US travel writer Pete McKell (Michael Vartan) arrives in the Northern Territory and joins tour operator Kate (Radha Mitchell) and a group of tourists on a riverboat daytrip through Kakadu National Park. As they watch a saltwater croc being fed ... [read more]
Demons at Drivetime (1995)
A documentary overview of the high-rating radio announcers across Australia in 1995. The style is 'a day-in-the-life of’, with poignant reminders that ratings are paramount and that the 'shock jocks’ themselves are not necessarily committed to the rabble-rousing rhetoric they ... [read more]
