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The luminary (2005)
The short animation The Luminary can be viewed here in its entirety. A grieving insect collector’s discovery of a missing specimen in his collection sparks a search for something more than just a moth. [read more]
What God meant things to bee (1958)
Smiley (Keith Calvert) takes two cages of bees to Granny McKinley (Sybil Thorndike) to help with her 'rheumatics’. He is terrified, because she is reputed to be the town witch, with a stash of gold to protect. He finds instead ... [read more]
Australia Post – Postpak Rap (1988)
This is an Australia Post television advertisement promoting the use of its own product, the Postpak. [read more]
Jack Johnson Training Film (c1909)
Historic footage of heavyweight champion boxer Jack Johnson at California training in front of a small crowd. [read more]
Dimpel, Konrad: Red Hill (1964)
This silent colour home movie, captured by Konrad Dimpel, shows his children quietly entertaining themselves over Christmas in 1964. The Dimpel children – Annemaria, Andrew and Harold – play with the gifts they have received for Christmas. While Annemaria plays ... [read more]
Living in a film script (1996)
Two villagers explain the confusion they experienced upon the first sighting of white people in the area. Filmmaker Robin Anderson speaks about arriving in the village and the way the villagers remembered them. Footage from Joe Leahy’s Neighbours (1988) ... [read more]
Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate – ‘Give Her Roses’ (1959)
This is a 60-second black-and-white television advertisement for Cadbury’s Roses chocolates from 1959. [read more]
Threshing at Allora (1899)
This 1899 actuality footage shows workers tossing wheat sheaves into a threshing machine on a farm at Allora, Queensland. A conveyor belt transports the processed wheat to a large stack. A team of horses brings a heaped cartload of wheat ... [read more]
Division of Radiophysics (1950)
Produced by the CSIRO Information Service, this public relations documentary outlines some of the major investigations undertaken by the CSIRO Division of Radiophysics at the University of Sydney ... [read more]
Teddy Briscoe (2000)
A documentary about an Indigenous stockman, and the legacy carried on by his family. [read more]
Summer Heights High – Episode 5 (2007)
Summer Heights High follows three characters at a fictional school, Summer Heights High, for the duration of a school term, each played by Chris Lilley. In this episode, Ja’mie and her friends campaign for a year 11 formal at the ... [read more]
Kraft Cheddar Cheese Cinema Advertisement: Unexpected Guests (c1940)
In this cinema advertisement for Kraft Cheddar Cheese, a woman prepares a quick and tasty snack using Kraft cheese for some unexpected guests. [read more]
Pussy Pumps Up (1979)
This 2D animated film opens to musical accompaniment as a tiny cat-girl heroine descends from a rope, exhibiting sensuality, grace and coquettishness before metamorphosing into a muscular, powerful figure. [read more]
Daddy Cool (1973)
Daddy Cool, a successful Australian rock band of the 1970s, perform their music including the famous Eagle Rock. Interviews with band members are interspersed with the songs. [read more]
South Melbourne Methodist Mission News (c1924)
This film made by the South Melbourne Methodist Mission promotes their work with children and the poor in 1920s South Melbourne. It also shows the mission’s weekly issuing of firewood to struggling families in the local community. [read more]
Soldiers Without Uniform (1942)
Charles and Elsa Chauvel’s short wartime documentary made for the Commonwealth Department of Information highlights the work of Australians in munitions factories. It includes a dramatised narrative about one family in which a father and son work in factories while ... [read more]
‘Fallen from the sky’ (2000)
The Japanese man (Rikiya Kurokawa) arrives at a suburban house in Australia to buy a car. A young blind woman (Rose Byrne) shows him into a crime scene, with blood and brains on the ceiling. She is a cousin, now ... [read more]
I Should Be So Lucky (1987)
I Should Be So Lucky was the second single from Kylie’s debut album, Kylie (1988). Penned by English pop writing-producing phenomenon Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman (also known as SAW), the song is a prime example of ... [read more]
‘He was a womaniser’ (1985)
In dramatic re-enactment Harold Holt (Phillip Ross) is talking to Jack, a fisherman. By chance Holt meets his friend Marjorie Gillespie (Maureen Edwards). In the documentary interview, Holt’s widow, Dame Zara Bate, recalls her husband’s womanising ways. [read more]
‘A pack of perverts’ (1975)
Sergeant Simmonds (Peter Cummins) is lecturing Kate (Kate Fitzpatrick) about the moral misbehaviour of the upper classes. Fiona (Jacki Weaver) defends her sister as Constable Ross (John Hargreaves) tries to find out what has to be loaded next. Inside the ... [read more]
