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General Motors Holden – Happy in a Holden (1962)
This television advertisement is a short interview with a satisfied Holden driver and his family in the parking lot outside a Collingwood-Hawthorn AFL game. [read more]
Money Movers (1979)
On the day that one of his armoured cars is robbed, Lionel Darcy (Frank Wilson) receives an anonymous tip off that his multi-million dollar counting house will soon be hit. A corrupt detective (Alan Cassell) passes this information to crime ... [read more]
A Ticket in Tatts (1934)
George (George Wallace) gets fired from his job at a country grocer’s shop. He is hired by the local stud farm, where he has a favourite horse. Hotspur is fancied to win the Melbourne Cup, but big city crooks want ... [read more]
Hayride to Hell (1995)
When George Heygate (Richard Roxburgh) stops his car for a mysterious woman in distress (Kylie Minogue) he soon finds himself on a hayride to hell. [read more]
Before white people (2005)
Black-and-white photographs of the two Nanas when they were younger women, with babies in arms. The sequence of photographs with voice-over tells us of the first time they ever saw white people. [read more]
Don Bradman in England (1930)
Don Bradman is interviewed in 1930 while on tour in England. He gives a demonstration of various batting techniques. [read more]
Australia Post – News Release E-Post Electronic Mail (1985)
This 1985 video press release explains E-Post, a new service offered by Australia Post. [read more]
The fighting Alibrandi women (1999)
Michael Andretti has saved Josie (Pia Miranda) from a ticklish situation at school, after she broke another girl’s nose with a school book. At home, Christina (Greta Scacchi) upbraids her daughter for turning her father into a hero. Christina and ... [read more]
Splendid Fellows (1934)
Monty Ralston (Frank Leighton), amateur aviator and dissolute son of an English shipping magnate, is shipped off to Australia in an effort to reform him. After almost getting arrested at a two-up game, he and his manservant Thompson (Leo Franklin) ... [read more]
‘We don’t like Hendersons’ (1985)
In their local café hangout, the gang drink Coke, chat and play pinball. Ted Morgan (Ben Mendelsohn), son of a striking mill worker, looks forward to the ‘fireworks’ which will result from a walk out at the mill owned by ... [read more]
We Are Going (1986)
This is a rare recording of Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly known as Kath Walker) reading her poem ‘We Are Going’ at the Harold Park Hotel in Sydney 1986, recorded by the ABC. [read more]
Black Talk (2002)
A short drama about two cousins Tim (Russell Page) and Scott (Laurence Clifford) who are temporarily reunited when city-based Tim returns to visit his family. [read more]
Lucky Miles (2007)
An Indonesian fishing boat dumps six Cambodians and six Iraqis on the remote coast of northwest Australia, in 1990. Muluk (Sawung Jabo), the captain, tells them to climb a dune to a bus stop, then sails away, knowing there is ... [read more]
General Motors Holden – John Fisher, Another Holden Driver (1962)
TV personality and sports commentator Tony Charlton conducts a short interview with Hawthorn winger and satisfied Holden driver John Fisher in the parking lot outside a Collingwood-Hawthorn AFL game. [read more]
Yolngu Boy (2000)
Botj, Lorrpu and Milika are three Yolngu teenagers from northeast Arnhem Land, who are about to become men. Botj (Sean Mununggurr) is estranged from his parents and prone to glue sniffing. He’s upset when his friends Lorrpu (John Sebastian Pilakui) ... [read more]
‘The car from Australia’ (1962)
Holden cars at the shipping docks await export to overseas markets. A voice-over chronicles the expansion of the Holden brand to 46 territories outside Australia, including New Zealand, Thailand, Singapore, Malaya and North Borneo. We see Holden cars in some ... [read more]
Manganinnie (1980)
In 1830 Edward Waterman (Phillip Hinton) and his family arrive in a remote part of Tasmania (or Van Diemen’s Land, as it was then known). Waterman is pressured into helping British colonial forces carry out the Black Line – enforced ... [read more]
General Motors Holden – Proved Dependability (c1956)
This television advertisement for General Motors Holden emphasises Holden’s dependability. Excerpts of letters from satisfied Holden customers illustrate each feature. [read more]
From Sand to Celluloid – Round Up (1995)
A short drama about two stockmen, one Indigenous and one not, who are caught up in racial conflict. Desi Little (Gary Cooper) and Hugo Hutton (Ben Oxenbould) are two men who are on a journey to deal with their own ... [read more]
History of the TPO service (1985)
This clip uses stills from Australia Post’s extensive photographic collection to trace the early history of cooperation between the postal and rail services. Using New South Wales as the example, it goes on to explain how changes in communications technologies ... [read more]
