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Us Deadly Mob (2005)
Us Deadly Mob is a short documentary about an Indigenous family of surfers – a 'surf family story’. [read more]
Cost-efficient but ‘human stupid’ (2000)
This clip covers the end of the 20th Century, where we learn that East Timor voted and Indigenous Australians wanted their land back. ‘When Iraq wanted oil-producing Kuwait back again, car-driving America drew the line’. Computers are cost-efficient but 'human ... [read more]
‘Who do I live with now?’ (1997)
Bojan (Kristof Kaczmarek) quits his remote job with the Hydro-Electric Commission to live with daughter Sonja (Rosie Flanagan) in Hobart. Bojan takes her to a dilapidated house he calls a ‘wog flat.’ [read more]
Village meeting (2007)
The other griot sings about equality and that you can have rights even if you are poor. Men address a meeting and one calls on the women to speak. A woman speaks forcefully about the military hassling the miners, that ... [read more]
About this superhero thing – we’re in! (2002)
When they accept the task to take on the legacy of The Silver Shadow to save the world, Josh (Alex Hopkins), Alex (Hannah Greenwood), Campbell (Aljin Abella), and Gretel (Sage Butler) also agree to live double lives from now on. ... [read more]
Round About Townsville (1926)
Townsville, Magnetic Island and the Hinchinbrook Channels are the subject of this scenic tour through northern Queensland’s attractive tourist destinations. Filled with steady pans and well framed static shots, this documentary also contains explanatory intertitles and colour-tinted and toned sequences. [read more]
‘Optimism wears out with your boots’ (1938)
John Ainsworth (Lloyd Hughes) has been out of work for months when he runs into two old university acquaintances. They take a drink at a city bar, where a man selling shoelaces approaches. Joe Larkin (Alec Kellaway) is actually an ... [read more]
‘Dad is going to kill you’ (1990)
Gordon Farkas (Steve Bisley) has been pulled over after a big night out at a girlie bar. While he was there, Danny (Ben Mendelsohn) and his mates Vangeli (Angelo D’Angelo) and Mark (Damon Herriman) have switched engines on Farkas’ car, ... [read more]
Good Girls Do Swallow (2000)
Produced for the Lifestyle Channel, this documentary examines dieting women. Presented by Rachael Oakes-Ash, it takes a witty look at widespread dieting and its consequences. Personalities, people in the street, schoolgirls and experts are interviewed. Oakes-Ash performs a few comedy ... [read more]
Cousin (1998)
The narrator (voiced by William McInnes), tells the story of his childhood friend and Cousin, who has celebral palsy and always smells of liquorice. [read more]
The pilgrims’ progress (2006)
This is the pretitle sequence in which the protagonists are sketched for us and the program’s theme established. There’s a young and adventurous backpacker, a soldier and his father and a family who are following the trail of a relative ... [read more]
Heatwave (1982)
During a sweltering Sydney summer, architect Stephen West (Richard Moir) faces determined community opposition to his greatest opus, a $200 million inner-city development called the Eden Project. The developer, Peter Houseman (Chris Haywood), hires goons to forcibly remove squatters and ... [read more]
The job interview (2011)
Lucy (Emily Browning) arrives for an interview with Clara (Rachael Blake) in reply to the job advertisement she saw in the student newspaper. The job is involves being a lingerie waitress but there is ‘room for promotion’, according to Clara. ... [read more]
The evolution of the skirt (1915)
This animated clip begins with a white outline, gradually drawn in by the hand of the artist to show a woman dressed in 19th-century costume. A caption says ‘since the Colonial days, skirts have gradually shrunk’. The cartoon is then ... [read more]
General Motors Holden – Saturday Kind of Car (1967)
This advertisement for the Holden HR station sedan features a typical suburban family weekend, including trips to the store, weekend sport and a picnic by the lake. [read more]
City scenes in Melbourne (1925)
This clip shows construction in central Melbourne during the 1920s. A crane lifts a concrete block from the back of a horse-drawn carriage and construction workers build a tall skyscraper. Traffic drives across an overpass above Flinders Railway Station. [read more]
Happy Little Vegemites (1959)
A chorus of children sing this radio jingle from the late 1950s. It proclaims the transformative power of their love for Vegemite, which has turned them into 'happy little Vegemites’. [read more]
‘What do we do now?’ (2003)
A group of mothers talk about how they deal with the ubiquitous television set in the centre of the living room, led by the journalist and mother of two, Rebecca le Tourneau. They swap ideas on how to pick and ... [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]
Compass – Paws For Thought (2000)
Traditional Christianity taught that humans are superior to animals. Science is rapidly changing that perception. So is non human life important and if so why? [read more]
