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A Day at an Engineering Works (c1926)
A silent documentary produced by the Made in Australia Council that details the work inside the Perry engineering works in Adelaide in order to promote and support Australian manufacturing industries and workers. The film is tinted and contains intertitles. [read more]
‘The Aboriginal problem’ (1984)
Talking head newscast discussing the 'Aboriginal problem’. In this instance, Lang Hancock offers sterilisation as a solution to 'the problem’. [read more]
Your daily diet (1947)
Nutrition experts tell us that to keep in top physical condition depends on what we eat (or don’t eat). Examples from the main food groups are laid out on a table. These groups are described as the protective foods, the ... [read more]
These Are Our Children (1948)
This silent dramatised documentary, commissioned by the Brotherhood of St Laurence and made by the Realist Film Unit, centres around the fate of two teenage siblings who live in the slums of Melbourne. [read more]
Larry Sitsky comments on the Sydney Opera House (1973)
Composer Larry Sitsky comments that the opera theatre has many faults. Opera director Sam Wanamaker suggests that the space is manageable. [read more]
We Are Going (1987)
Aerial views of Minjerriba (Stradbroke Island), and Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) walking along the beach with children. Oodgeroo tells us the inspiration for her poetry, and its role in personal and political resistance to white oppression. [read more]
Farey: Opening of Sydney Harbour Bridge (1932)
This home movie includes a diverse range of footage taken by Leslie Francis Farey and features a trip taken by his family who travelled from Melbourne, Victoria to witness the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It includes the official ... [read more]
Down the drain (2005)
This is the opening sequence, introducing the real-world characters Mary Jane and Stanley Staines and their crazy, imaginative mutant friends and monster foes from the drain – a perilous and fascinating world that they enter through a portal in the ... [read more]
‘The wife ship’ (1935)
The tiny settlement at Sydney Cove comes alive with news of a ship bringing single women to the colony. James Morrison (Franklyn Bennett) incurs the wrath of pretty young Biddy O’Shea (Peggy Maguire) when he tries to ‘carry her bundle’. ... [read more]
Government Party Boards SS Lucinda (1899)
This actuality footage was shot in 1899 by Frederick Charles Wills, the official photographer of the Queensland Department of Agriculture. It shows Queensland politicians boarding the paddle steamer Lucinda, moored at a wharf on the Brisbane River. The parliamentarians board ... [read more]
The flip side (1993)
A young boy is suddenly awoken from his sleep. Before him stand two spirits, a man and a woman. They clasp hands, and disappear through the wall of the boy’s bedroom. The boy follows them. They are the spirit of ... [read more]
Tennant Creek – Sacred Dances (1999)
We are introduced to Tennant Creek through the eyes of the Moonga Moonga dancers (lady dancers), and the women’s dances belonging to this area. [read more]
Masterpiece Special – Wole Soyinka (1997)
The Nobel Laureate for literature in 1986, Wole Soyinka is in Australia for the 1997 Melbourne Writers’ Festival. He’s talking to Andrea Stretton about his early life in his native Nigeria and the terrible fate of his friend and fellow ... [read more]
Choir of Hard Knocks – Episode 3 (2007)
Inspired by an article about a homeless men’s choir in Montreal, choirmaster and former opera singer Jonathan Welch forms a similar choir in Melbourne in association with local charity Reclink. Auditions are not required – anyone who is homeless, struggling ... [read more]
Meet the mite (2009)
Close-ups of healthy honeybees in action as well as bees infected with Varroa destructor precede a short cut-out stop motion-style digital animation detailing the arrival of the Varroa mite from Asia to Europe and across the globe. Dr Denis Anderson, ... [read more]
Painting the dunes (1992)
Peter Garrett visits the untouched Shoalwater area with Army major Sam Hassall. They examine the sands that are proposed for mining. The sand contains iluminite, rutile and titanium used in the manufacture of white paint. Footage of sandmining in New ... [read more]
Or Forever Hold Your Peace (1970)
A compilation of events concerning the moratorium to stop the Vietnam War in 1970. The film is an observational documentary without commentary that cuts between meetings, street protests, public speeches and concerts, and uses audio from a range of sources. [read more]
Red Cross Activities During and After WWI (c1919)
Female Red Cross volunteers prepare food, bake bread and cakes, darn socks, spin wool, and make knitted dolls. Soldiers work with leather and create wooden toys. The Red Cross volunteers are also shown working in the linen rooms and serving ... [read more]
The last innings of Victor Trumper (1915)
This newsreel footage shows part of the funeral procession of Australian cricketer Victor Trumper. A large group of men march in front of a horse-drawn vehicle carrying the casket of Victor Trumper as it approaches a Sydney cemetery. [read more]
White River of Life (c1950)
The Milk Board of NSW commissioned this short film to promote the value of milk in the daily diet. It is mostly set during a class at Parramatta Girls’ Home Science School. The cooking teacher asks the class to ... [read more]
