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Stupid dog! (2000)
Horace reluctantly helps Tina find Max’s (Jordan White) dog Sherlock at the animal refuge. [read more]
Church in Chile (1986)
The Roman Catholic leader, Cardinal Fresno, is against the brutality of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Some citizens express disagreement with the Church’s position. [read more]
Cinesound Varieties (1934)
This surviving 18-minute fragment is from an hour-long variety show directed by Ken G Hall and photographed by Frank Hurley for Cinesound in 1934. It contains a segment with Hamilton Webber and the State Orchestra illustrating the evolution of the ... [read more]
‘People die out in this country’ (2003)
Bogged and stranded a long way from help, Sandy (Toni Collette) asks Hiromitsu (Gotaro Tsunashima) if she can borrow his phone, because she has no signal. He is reluctant to let anyone know they are lost. She explains how bad ... [read more]
Australia Post – Australia Post Inc (1990)
This in-house program, directed at controlling postal managers (CPMs) and postal managers (PMs), discussed what the Australian Postal Corporation Act (the APC Act) meant for individual post offices. [read more]
Wings to Victory (1984)
A film celebrating the win by 12-metre yacht, Australia II, at Rhode Island USA. The Australian yacht beat the American entry, Victory. It was the first time that America had lost the America’s Cup in 132 years. The documentary ... [read more]
A massive recruitment (1954)
The clip summarises the range of work which the labour recruits to the early stages of the Snowy Mountains Scheme were called on to perform. [read more]
Tiga (1987)
Animated images of the Tasmanian tiger are depicted in different environments: a zoo, suburbia and bushland, as local people recall their sightings of this now extinct animal. [read more]
A 1950s ‘costumed crime fighter’ (2002)
When they meet The Silver Shadow (Tayler Kane) for the first time, Josh (Alex Hopkins), Alex (Hannah Greenwood), Campbell (Aljin Abella), and Gretel (Sage Butler) find his being a 1950s superhero funny and old-fashioned. He realises that he must be ... [read more]
McLeod’s Daughters – Welcome Home (2001)
After the death of her father Jack, Claire McLeod (Lisa Chappell) is trying to get on with running the family cattle station, Drover’s Run. But the business is in serious debt and the men on the station are not taking ... [read more]
Reaping the harvests of history (1938)
Scenes of wheat harvesting are accompanied by commentary full of metaphors of nation-building based on ‘harvesting the benefits of a great past’. As the commentary builds to a patriotic climax, the music from Pomp and Circumstance is reprised and the ... [read more]
Agnes Abbott: Hard Worker (2006)
Agnes Abbott tells her story from her birth in the beautiful Eastern Arrernte country of Inteye-Arrkwe (Ross River), to her life in the cattle industry, and her later time at the Santa Teresa Mission where she created an alcohol-free community, ... [read more]
A potted postal history (1988)
This clip uses music over a selection of stills and archival footage to give a summarised history of the postal service in New South Wales. [read more]
Cheeky Dog (2006)
A documentary about a young Indigenous boy with muscular dystrophy and his fascination with dogs. Cheeky Dog is part of the Nganampa Anwernekenhe series produced by Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) Productions. Nganampa Anwernekenhe means 'ours’ in the ... [read more]
Looking for Horses (2001)
Sisters Gemma (voiced by Gabrielle Vening) and Ruby (Celesta Vinckier) accompany their parents (Christina Louis and Martin Louis) to French Island, Victoria on a summer holiday. They explore the place but are disappointed to find there are no horses, that ... [read more]
Waiting (1990)
Single, heavily pregnant Clare Fairweather (Noni Hazlehurst) is a successful artist living on a rural property. After experiencing her first contractions she contacts her three closest female friends to join her for the planned home birth, as arranged. Arriving ... [read more]
The Christmas pudding affair (1986)
Grandma (Gwen Plumb) is woken up by cooking smells and knows intuitively that it’s her son-in-law stealing a march on her by starting the preparations for the Christmas pudding. She rushes into the kitchen to stop him, but is disarmed ... [read more]
General Motors Holden – Buy with Confidence (1968)
This black-and-white television advertisement for General Motors Holden features a family looking to buy a used car from their Holden dealer. [read more]
‘Part of the group’ (2006)
A junior football team is in the dressing-room before a game. Gender Studies lecturer Dr Clifton Evers discusses the physical dynamics of footballers who go through a group experience together. In a stylised sequence, a junior player recounts when he ... [read more]
Alone in the docks (1993)
This re-enactment shows a judge condemning Max Stuart to death. [read more]
