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Birth of a Car (c1948)
In 1948, the year that the first Holden was released, Roland Litchfield produced Made to Order for General Motors Holden. This documentary on the first model Holden was shortened later that year and released as Birth of a Car. Birth ... [read more]
Ballarat Beauty Competition (1911)
This silent newsreel shows the first 15 contestants in a local children’s beauty competition held in the Victorian town of Ballarat in 1911. [read more]
Island Fettlers (2006)
A documentary that uses historical footage, with current interview and observational footage, about the journey of Torres Strait Islander men who moved to the Pilbara to work on the railways and after the job finished stayed on. [read more]
‘Let’s get this show on the road’ (1996)
Lewis (Ben Mendelsohn) struggles to get started after selecting his six actors. Roy (Barry Otto), his most enthusiastic recruit, takes over and demands that they perform Mozart’s opera, Così Fan Tutte, rather than a variety review. Roy explains the plot, ... [read more]
Majestic Fanfare (1943)
The original 1943 recording of the ABC’s much loved ‘Majestic Fanfare’, used in various forms since 1952 to introduce news broadcasts. [read more]
Weapons Research Establishment Project WRESAT (1967)
Produced by the Weapons Research Establishment (WRE) Film Unit, Department of Supply, this is a documentary record of the WRESAT Project – the launch of the first Australian satellite from Woomera on 29 November 1967. [read more]
Christmas Hustle and Bustle: Crowds Leave for Well-deserved Holiday on 22 December (1928)
This item from a silent newsreel shows Melburnians during the Christmas season of 1928, including Christmas shoppers crossing Swanston Street in the pouring rain and two swagmen drinking in a Melbourne park. The newsreel contains intertitles. [read more]
That’s Cricket (c1931)
This featurette was directed by Ken G Hall for Australasian Films and made with the cooperation of seven members of the successful Australian XI cricket team, including Sir Donald Bradman, who toured England in 1930. It promotes cricket and its ... [read more]
Monday Conference – PNG (1971)
Robert Moore is the moderator and Donald Hogg and Richard Beckett are the interviewers of the impressive New Guinea politician John Guise, later to be knighted Sir John Guise. They’re asking him about his country’s timetable to independence and the ... [read more]
Caddie (1976)
In Sydney in 1925, Caddie (Helen Morse) gets a job as a barmaid, after walking out on an unfaithful husband. She has no money and two children to feed. The working conditions are appalling, but she learns the trade, with ... [read more]
Crocodile Dundee II (1988)
Mick Dundee (Paul Hogan) is living in New York with his new girlfriend, Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski). He misses the Northern Territory but keeps occupied by fishing in the Hudson River with sticks of dynamite. Sue’s ex-husband, a reporter (Dennis ... [read more]
‘Let’s hand it over to the young people’ (1974)
The Pioneer’s ball is disrupted when the town’s young people show their anger, in retaliation for an earlier scene where the mayor has torched one of their cars. They unleash a storm of demolition. [read more]
Menzies’ Wartime Tour – England (1941)
This home movie filmed by Australia’s longest serving prime minister, Sir Robert Menzies, captures England during the Blitz in 1941. It features footage of the Churchills in their home, close-ups of various political leaders and prominent figures of England including ... [read more]
‘This is the real world, Eddie!’ (2005)
Eddie (David Wenham) and his wife Tanya (Frances O’Connor) argue one morning about money. She has lost her contract at the university, and hasn’t been able to tell him. He has always been the practical one of the two, but ... [read more]
‘The front office doesn’t believe in promises’ (1980)
After the transfer of prisoners in the middle of the night, Mr Norton (Max Phipps) comes to apologise to Jackson (Bryan Brown) for the breaking of the deal. Norton talks about the fear he felt as a young prison officer, ... [read more]
‘I hate the way we fight’ (1992)
Beth (Lisa Harrow) and her father (Bill Hunter) are driving into the desert of western New South Wales on a short holiday. Beth wants to get closer to him and resolve some personal issues before it’s too late, but they ... [read more]
Breathing Under Water (1991)
A late 20th century Beatrice (Anne Louise Lambert), mother of a young child, keeps a map ‘dredged from her dreams’ in a copy of Dante’s Inferno. Prompted by questions from her young daughter Maeve (Maeve Dermody), and feeling unease with ... [read more]
Dyer, Frederick Simpson: Cinema and its Workings (1941)
An outing to the Saturday matinee screening of Pack Up Your Troubles (1940) at a local cinema is captured in black-and-white and colour by amateur movie maker Frederick Simpson Dyer. [read more]
Holden Car Cinema Advertisement: On a Tour of Tropical Australia (c1954)
This is a cinema advertisement for General Motors Holden in which a couple driving an FJ Holden sedan take a tour of tropical north Australia, including a boat trip on the Coral Sea. [read more]
