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Tea for three (1929)
This clip is part three in the serialised Bushells tea cinema advertisement and shows a woman visiting her girlfriend and new husband at their home in Sydney. They share a cup of tea out on the verandah and reminisce about ... [read more]
‘The food of love’ (1996)
David has returned to Perth a broken man, after his collapse on stage at the Royal College of Music. He has been in and out of mental institutions and half-way houses until he meets Sylvia (Sonia Todd), restaurant owner at ... [read more]
Your eyes are intense (2004)
At the local service station, Heidi (Abbie Cornish) inquires about a job. The young woman behind the counter, Bianca (Hollie Andrew) is curt and unfriendly. Heidi buys a pair of red gloves and goes walking by the lake. Back at ... [read more]
‘I can’t hear you’ (2007)
McGahan (Brendan Cowell) arrives home in the morning after a very stressful night at the caravan, during which he fired a shot at three men beating up Lucky Phil. The ringing in his ears gets worse. McGahan’s partner Caitlin (Katie ... [read more]
The English cricket team (1932)
The English captain, Douglas Jardine, practices his driving techniques at the Perth cricket ground. Maurice Leyland stands at the wicket and works on his batting form. Herbert Suttcliffe stands in front of the camera before walking across the ground. Other ... [read more]
White Rose Flour Mill (1927)
The clip begins with a scene at the front of the White Rose Flour Mill building on Bulwara Road, Ultimo. People walk by. A truck and car are shown driving down the street and people talking outside the building. John ... [read more]
The killer is cornered (1951)
With a group of men on his tail, the killer climbs further upwards through the scrub. Meanwhile, the victim’s felt hat continues its way down the river. When the killer makes it to the road at the top of the ... [read more]
The Alibrandi curse (1999)
Josie (Pia Miranda) and her friends Sara (Leanne Carlow) and Anna (Diane Viduka) escape from ‘Tomato Day’ at Josie’s grandmother’s house to go to the beach. Josie’s mother Christina (Greta Scacchi) gives her a mouthful at home later for running ... [read more]
New Guinea and the RAAF (1970)
This clip begins with crowds of schoolchildren gathered around an RAAF aeroplane at a New Guinea base. Some of the boys look beneath the cockpit area. A brief shot of a map of New Guinea is ... [read more]
‘Don’t come back, Tessa’ (1994)
Tessa (Pamela Rabe) is remembering the night, at age 16, that her life changed forever. She closes a window and, at the next moment, her sixteen-year-old self (Simone Pengelly) falls into the room, in the midst of a miscarriage. Later, ... [read more]
A message from God (1995)
At the mental health clinic, Kate (Jacqueline McKenzie) and Harry (John Lynch) have to defend their decision to stay away from doctors during Kate’s pregnancy. The clinic’s director, Dr Norberg (Robyn Nevin), Kate’s former doctor (Alex Pinder), Harry’s brother Morris ... [read more]
Thinking about hormones (1995)
The man (Syd Brisbane) laughs at the way his life is turning out, as the woman (Ulli Birvé) keeps changing locales, at her whim, from desert to forest to mountaintop. She suggests they need to have ‘a relationship’, for which ... [read more]
‘Police work is people’ (1993)
Maggie Doyle (Lisa McCune) and Wayne Patterson (Grant Bowler) arrive at the property of Old Man Doherty to follow up on some unpaid parking fines and find more than they bargained for in the form of a vicious german shepherd. ... [read more]
Anzac Parade Junction (1928)
At Anzac Parade Junction, trams carry crowds from the racecourse to Circular Quay and from the Sydney Showground to Central Station. The busy intersection is a bustling chaos of trams, buses, cars and pedestrians all of which are kept in ... [read more]
Tahmeena wakes screaming (2007)
John Woldring (William McInnes) stares at the telephone, as if contemplating telling someone about the distressed young woman he’s just found. The whistle of a boiling kettle initially masks (and then becomes confused with) Tahmeena’s (Monic Hendrickx) screams as she ... [read more]
Bankers, bookies and bad news (1920)
The Galloways have come to the city unannounced, to withdraw emergency funds from Mrs Galloway’s inheritance. Their son Gilbert (Rawdon Blandford) abandons them at home while he goes to the races with Olive, his mistress (Marie La Varre). Jo Galloway ... [read more]
Church goes undercover (1998)
Under orders from boss Bernie Rocca (Joe Petruzzi) and supervisor Ellen Mackenzie (Anita Hegh), Peter Church (Peter Phelps) goes undercover at the railway yards. His target is railway worker Ronnie Gallagher (John Brumpton), a suspect in the case of a ... [read more]
‘Foiled again’ (1983)
Detective Tom Shannon (John McTernan) finally brings in Faith Bloomfield (Elaine Lee) after she is located treating homeless friends to an extravagant party at an expensive hotel. Back at the station, Shannon and Detective ‘JJ’ Jeffrey Johnson (Peter Adams) inform ... [read more]
‘My father used to spear emus’ (2008)
The experience of Tjalkabotta seeing white people for the first time is told through interviews with author Peter Vallee and readings of diary excerpts. In this way, Tjalkabotta recounts his life as a child before white occupation of his country. ... [read more]
‘Up your bum!’ (1994)
Jeff (Russell Crowe) and Greg (John Polson) sit on the couch at Jeff’s house, after drinking at the local gay pub. They kiss for the first time, but Harry (Jack Thompson) interrupts them, seeking an introduction. He joins the boys ... [read more]
