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Australia to England via Tobruk and Benghazi: Menzies Wartime Tour (1941)
This home movie, filmed by Australian Prime Minister the Right Honourable, Sir Robert Menzies, was taken during his 1941 wartime tour of Tobruk, Benghazi, Cairo, Khartoum, Libya and Palestine, en route to England. The film includes footage of official visits ... [read more]
An Exercise in Discipline: Peel (1982)
A bickering red-headed family on a weekend road trip reach a standoff by the side of a country road. [read more]
Menzies 1948 Journey, Reel 2 (1948)
This home movie filmed by Australian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, during a family journey through Europe in 1948, begins with a title card that says ‘I didn’t see enough of it’ and cuts to footage of the cricket at ... [read more]
Alicia (1996)
Alicia Liley was a promising 18-year-old drama student when she sustained brain damage in a near fatal car accident. The documentary traces her recovery and her determination to live a full life. Her response to her disability was to start ... [read more]
Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate – ‘A Milk Tray Day Today’ (c1955)
This is a compilation of three 30-second black-and-white advertisements from a Cadbury’s Milk Tray campaign dating from the mid-1950s. [read more]
Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate – ‘Happiness for Two’ (c1960)
This is a compilation of three 30-second black-and-white television ads for Cadbury’s Milk Tray chocolates with the slogan 'happiness for two’. [read more]
Bit of Black Business – Nana (2007)
A Little Girl (Kiara Gibson) loves her Nana (Mitjili Napanangka Gibson) and follows her as she hunts, sells art and patrols her Alice Springs community for drug runners. Nana has everything and everyone under control. [read more]
Smithy (1946)
A young Australian pilot in the Royal Flying Corps is shot in the foot while flying over the Western Front in 1917. Charles Kingsford Smith (Ron Randell) finishes the war with a Military Cross and a burning desire to do ... [read more]
‘Next up, the ladies’ (1971)
It’s the turn of Holy Cross College contestants Maree, Deborah and Nazife to answer ten questions in one minute. [read more]
Third Person Plural (1978)
Easy-going Terry (George Shevtsov) invites three friends on a weekend boating trip. Mark (Bryan Brown) is a biologist who studies ants. Danny (Linden Wilkinson) is making a documentary about senior citizens. Beth (Margaret Cameron) has an open relationship with husband ... [read more]
Australia Post – Security (1989)
This program, produced for in-house training use, outlines the operations of Australia Post’s Security and Investigation Service and alerts personnel to the range of potential mail crime. [read more]
Efftee Film Productions Congratulates Miss Dorothy Fricke (1931)
This silent newsreel item from Efftee Film Productions shows the debutante celebration of Miss Dorothy Fricke, held at Chelsea Memorial Hall in Melbourne on 24 August 1931. It features men and women waltzing around a decorated hall. [read more]
Big Hair Woman (1996)
Actress and comedienne Mary Coustas plays her most famous character, Effie, as she tours around Papua New Guinea. This docu-comedy is a sort of tongue-in-cheek travelogue. Effie gives the audience a Greek hairdresser’s tour of our northern neighbour, but also ... [read more]
Rydin’ Time (2005)
A documentary about three Indigenous rodeo riders, Kaleb Comollatti, Dallas McNamara, and John Stacey who ride at the Mt Isa Rodeo in 2005. Rydin’ Time is part of the Nganampa Anwernekenhe series produced by Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (read more]
Gallipoli (1981)
In Western Australia in 1915 two young men join up to fight in the First World War. Archy Hamilton (Mark Lee) is the patriotic son of a grazier. Frank Dunne (Mel Gibson) is a drifter with no great desire to ... [read more]
West (2007)
Pete (Khan Chittenden) and Jerry (Nathan Phillips) are cousins and best friends, going nowhere in the west of Sydney. They are unemployed and shiftless – bored, drunk and stoned most of the time. When Jerry gets a girlfriend and a ... [read more]
Australasian Gazette – All for a Good Cause (c1920)
This Australasian Gazette newsreel footage from approximately 1920 shows a surf carnival at Bondi Beach, Sydney in aid of the St John’s Ambulance Brigade. [read more]
Australasian Gazette – First Shipment of Red Cross Supplies to Egypt (c1917)
This Australasian Gazette newsreel shows the first shipment of Red Cross supplies leaving Federal Government House, Melbourne for soldiers in Egypt. Men form a chain to transport boxes of supplies down stairs to load onto a vehicle. The horse-drawn vehicles ... [read more]
Monte Carlo Russian Ballet. Original Ballet Russe (c1936)
This footage, filmed by Ewan Murray-Will, shows staged sequences of the Ballets Russes’ repertoire on their tours to Australia. It includes excerpts from the ballets Le Beau Danube, Le Carnaval, Les Presage, Petrouchka and Thamar. [read more]
Wake in Fright (1971)
John Grant (Gary Bond) is the bored teacher at a one-room school in Tiboonda, a tiny railway junction on the far western plains of New South Wales. On his way to Sydney for Christmas, he stops overnight in Bundanyabba, a ... [read more]
