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Cancer in the bush (2006)
Chrissey and Lindsey Newton live back of Bourke. They’ve battled drought to save their property and now they must battle with Chrissey’s cancer and the lack of rural health services for cancer sufferers. [read more]
‘He did his duty’ (1915)
Will (Guy Hastings) joins his friends in Martin Place, Sydney, for a drink. They discuss the war while drinking and Will urges them to join up. He places a recruiting poster on the hotel wall, but a stranger rips it ... [read more]
WWI Troops Embarkation and Charity Bazaars, Sydney (c1915)
This silent actuality footage captures various aspects of the domestic war effort in Australia during the First World War, and the people’s relationship to the Australian Imperial Forces recruits. It shows newly recruited troops embarking for service; life on board ... [read more]
A trip to Kundjabe (2001)
The family travel to Kundjabe to fish. The women bait the hooks with worms, while they talk about the different types of food available to them. There is a great familiarity with how the family relate to this place. [read more]
Therapy (1997)
Ray (Shane Feeney-Connor) was one of the only survivors of the gas station mass shooting. After convincing him to walk through a police re-creation of the crime scene, Jane Halifax (Rebecca Gibney) is worried about the lapsed alcoholic’s wellbeing. She ... [read more]
Petal feast (1997)
The Petals enjoy a well-earned feast at the end of another exciting day. Boronia (Celia Ireland) denies having been scared and, showing off, gets hooked on a twig much to the gentle amusement of her fellow Petals. [read more]
Uncle (1996)
The narrator (voiced by William McInnes) goes to live with his Uncle (John Flaus), who retires from working at the hardware shop after selling a million nails. As Uncle and Aunt are childless, the nephew becomes their surrogate child and ... [read more]
‘I wanted to get closer to reality’ (2006)
In an excerpt from the only surviving interview with Bob Mathews, one of the founders of the Realist Film Unit, he describes the beginnings of his interest in film. Meanwhile, filmmaker John Hughes looks through the old film canisters Mathews’s ... [read more]
‘Hiding behind a character’ (1987)
Actor Max Gillies is a guest on Michael Parkinson’s show. The then Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, is also a guest. Gillies uses gestures, make-up and voice impersonation to pretend to be the real Bob Hawke with amusing results. [read more]
Women join the war effort (1943)
Gwennie (Muriel Steinbeck) is just one of the thousands of women who have joined the war effort – she works in a munitions factory putting trinitrotoluene, or TNT, into shells. She explains that in the last war women 'couldn’t ... [read more]
‘Life upside down’ (1996)
Late teen Lebanese-Australian Billal, permanently brain damaged from a car accident, is undergoing an operation for the third time. The surgeon explains that fluid has built up in Billal’s brain causing him to gain weight and to exhibit disinhibited violent ... [read more]
‘I’m a drycleaner now’ (1998)
Elvis Maginnis (Marcus Graham) is on the lookout for clues as to who killed his girlfriend’s husband, Noel Pomeroy, a car dealer. His first stop is Pomeroy’s old enemy Athol Amoroso (Tommy Dysart). Meanwhile, Stella Kinsella (Alison Whyte) heads ... [read more]
First Contact (1983)
First Contact is an astonishing documentary about the three Australian Leahy brothers (Michael, Dan and James) who went gold prospecting in what they thought was a completely uninhabited part of the remote Western Highlands of New Guinea. They encountered thousands ... [read more]
Ghosts of Port Arthur (c1932)
This travelogue, made by Ken G Hall for Cinesound, is about the ‘Cinderella State of the Commonwealth’, Tasmania. It includes sections on New Norfolk, Hobart, Port Arthur, the Hobart Zoo and the Derwent River district. It contains voice-over narration by ... [read more]
Australia Post – Onward Speed (1970)
Produced by The Film House for the Australian Post Office, this is an amusing instructional film on maximising the effectiveness of business mail procedures. [read more]
Carnival of Flowers, Toowoomba (1953)
Every spring, in the heart of Queensland’s Darling Downs, Toowoomba celebrates the Carnival of Flowers, complete with floral street parade, garden competitions and the crowning of the floral queen. Capturing the colour of spring and its associated activities, the Carnival ... [read more]
Elephant Tales (2006)
Life on the wild plains of Africa is wonderful for Zef (voiced by Jono Wood) and his younger elephant brother Tutu (voiced by Emily Hunt) until they find themselves orphaned by hunters (named ‘The Badness’). Zef comforts Tutu by saying ... [read more]
Giving peace a chance (2003)
This clip features an interview with Sarah Davies, a Quaker who comes from a family of Quakers. Her grandfather was a conscientious objector during the Second World War. Sarah herself has travelled with the World Council of Churches to Israel ... [read more]
On the road (1987)
Buster (Rebecca Smart) the city kid has been kitted out for her new life in the bush and her father (Bryan Brown) is setting a cracking pace as they walk to his next farm job because, as he says, 'if ... [read more]
A memorable day (1983)
When Hargraves (played here in re-enactments by Hugh Keays-Byrne) returned to Australia in 1849 with the knowledge he’d gleaned from the American goldfields, he set out for the country around Bathurst in New South Wales. With assistance from a young ... [read more]
