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The dismissal (1978)
Former Governor-General Sir John Kerr talks about using the reserve powers of the Australian Constitution to dismiss the government. He has never resiled from his actions and says he would do the same again today. [read more]
The Daylight Moon: A Portrait of the Poet Les Murray (1991)
Les Murray’s readings of his poetry are synchronised with his autobiographical reflections spoken to camera on the family farm near Taree in northern NSW and in Sydney locations. [read more]
Shirley Thompson versus the Aliens (1972)
In the mid-1960s Shirley Thompson (Jane Harders) lives in a mental asylum. She tells a sceptical Dr George Talbot (Tim Elliot) and Dr Leslie Smith (June Collis) about her encounter with aliens ten years ago. In 1956, Shirley escapes the ... [read more]
The Stranger (1964)
A mysterious Stranger (Ron Haddrick) collapses on the doorstep of the Walsh family home. The opening titles for The Stranger feature a satellite dish searching the skies, strange particles moving in space and a moonscape. Inside the Walsh home, teenager ... [read more]
‘My foot against the back of your neck’ (2001)
Jim Doyle (David Wenham) has been hired by Centabank to perfect his research into how to predict the stock market. The bank’s senior research analyst Vincent (Greg Stone) sets up a series of preliminary tests, but chief executive Simon (Anthony ... [read more]
The bulldozer (1985)
This powerful sequence shows the violent clashes between the government and developers planning Sydney’s large-scale re-development and those that opposed it – the unionists, residents, conservationists and students. [read more]
The betrayal (1963)
The lovers (Rosalind Keene and Edward Brayshaw) have been uncovered before the whole community of pearl fishers and the high priest (Frank Lisle) has passed a sentence of death by fire. The pearl fisher chief (Ronal Jackson) intercedes for his ... [read more]
‘You’d have to burn the place down’ (2008)
Carla (Claire van der Boom) shows Ray (David Roberts) a sample of the money she’s found and tries to persuade him to help her steal the rest of it. When he baulks at her suggestion, she questions whether he’s serious ... [read more]
The discovery (1982)
Alinta (Naykakan Munung) and her friend walk along the beach as two other children are playing nearby. They discover a white man lying semi-conscious in the sand. They think they’ve seen a ghost and run back to the camp to ... [read more]
Bit of Black Business – The Turtle (2007)
Jason (Gregory Cross) is no longer a small boy. His mother has sent him to his grandfather (Kelton Pell) to experience a different way of life. [read more]
The Sundowner (1953)
Convinced her father was murdered, Kim Marsden (Jeanette Elphick) tells cattle station manager McLeod (Max Osbiston) she has sent for ‘the Sundowner’. McLeod claims the Sundowner is a myth created by Aborigines. [read more]
The beginning (1986)
Interviews with the first woman surfer Isabel Letham, who tells how she first got on a surfboard in 1914, and Graham Cassidy, then president of the Australian Professional Surfing Association. [read more]
Take the tempo from the teeth (1948)
This 10-minute film, seen here in full, promotes the consumption of milk as a health product. Helen is having afternoon tea with a friend who compliments Helen’s grown son on his sparkling white teeth. Helen credits them to the large ... [read more]
The straining downpipes (1920)
Gilbert Galloway (Rawdon Blandford) has become a tramp after disgracing himself in the city. He gets caught in a bushfire near Wallaby Station. Tom Wattleby (Dunstan Webb) rides out to rescue him, unaware of this tramp’s identity. Back safely at ... [read more]
The painter (1989)
Vali is painting and speaks about what she uses, where it is from and the way she works. [read more]
The legend (1986)
Professional Australian surfing legend Pam Burridge talks about how she got into the sport, winning her first surfing competition at twelve years old. [read more]
A dance in the hand (1906)
The artist separates the young man and woman by tearing their photo in half. He brings them back to life by placing the crumpled photograph halves on a ruler. The man and woman dance on the ruler as the artist ... [read more]
‘Passing the Bach’ (1971)
This is 'Passing the Bach’, the opening track on the Don Burrows Quartet’s seminal jazz album ‘Just the Beginning’ (1971). [read more]
SeaChange – One of the Gang (1998)
High-powered city lawyer Laura Gibson (Sigrid Thornton) is almost too busy to notice her life falling apart. Then her husband’s shock arrest for white-collar crimes, the revelation he is having an affair with her sister and the realisation that she ... [read more]
General Motors Holden – FE Holden: The Average Man (1956)
This television advertisement for the 1956 FE Holden focuses on the planning, research, technology and testing that went into the car’s development. [read more]
