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‘The power to win!’ (1942)
In this dramatised sequence, a mining family hears on the wireless that Singapore has fallen to the Japanese. Husband (Marshall Crosby) and wife (Beryl Bryant) look outside despairingly on an inactive coal mine. Industry stakeholders meet with a representative from ... [read more]
Farming classes at Dookie Agricultural College (1919)
This clip from a brief documentary shows an observational look at returned First World War servicemen in 1919 as they train to be farmers at Dookie Agricultural College and commence work at Merbein, Victoria. It begins with a title card ... [read more]
Electric Stove Cinema Advertisement: Banish Drudgery (c1940)
This cinema advertisement from the 1940s illustrates the benefits of cooking with electricity and the new electric kooka range. [read more]
‘You’re not taking the Kingswood!’ (1978)
Ted Bullpitt (Ross Higgins) is not keen on the idea when his wife Thel (Noeline Brown) suggests a second honeymoon in Paris. Their son (Kevin Golsby) announces that he is heading to Tibet. [read more]
Greetings from Wollongong (1982)
Greetings From Wollongong is a short drama about the lives of four unemployed young adults living in an Australian industrial city. The film follows the characters as they face rejection, boredom, social isolation, family tensions and lack of money. Set ... [read more]
Two Tribes (1998)
Bankers and difficult kids. Both have bad reputations. This is the story of some inner-city kids at a special school who link up with a group of bankers who become their mentors. [read more]
The disappearing Dakota (1961)
As spring brings warmer temperatures, preparations begin for the summer exploration season. The Royal Australian Air Force Dakota is made ready for flights into the interior, in support of a ground team travelling in a ‘tractor train’. The Dakota ferries ... [read more]
‘This has got to stop’ (1979)
Tarzan (Gerard Kennedy) attempts to halt a high stakes poker game between Pansy (Mike Preston) and Methuselah (Michael Duffield). [read more]
The breakthrough (1989)
Sergeant Dillon, movingly played by himself, tells the President of the Commission of Inquiry (Nick Tate) how he discovered a bottle of Chivas Regal whisky in his locker, to which he had the only key. He took the bottle home ... [read more]
‘The love of cricket’ (1931)
A child sits on the grass next to a miniature cricket kit with stumps, bat and ball, as the narrator explains that a love of cricket is inherent to 'every Australian’. Children play the game in Sydney’s backstreets, followed by ... [read more]
The trauma of Bali (2004)
A split-screen shows images of the Bali bombings memorial service in Canberra in October 2002 and Brian Deegan, who lost his son Josh in the bombings. As the images of the memorial service unfold on the left of screen, Deegan ... [read more]
Everything has a cycle (2004)
Tom E Lewis introduces the concept of five seasons over footage of an overflowing Rose River – the land inundated with water, followed by a montage of a dry riverbed. Lewis describes the wet season over images of Indigenous men ... [read more]
A question of breeding (1936)
Now that Stormalong is a champion racehorse, Tommy (Frank Leighton) has a Sydney address with a harbour view. When Joan (Helen Twelvetrees) invites old friends Bill Peel (John Longden) and his father, Sir Russell (Harold Meade), Tommy behaves badly. He ... [read more]
Pathé Baby 9.5mm camera (2007)
Amateur filmmaker Frank Straford demonstrates his father’s original brown leather 1920s Pathé Baby 9.5mm camera and tripod. He contrasts the distinctive sprocket holes of 9.5mm with 16mm film and displays the cassettes the film came in. [read more]
The Shell Touring Service (1956)
A couple, about to embark on a holiday, are not quite sure which route to take. A friendly voice-over points out that ‘motoring isn’t just a matter of having a car or a truck, it’s a matter of knowing about ... [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]
‘Tunnel thro’ the mountains’ (1957)
After a hard day’s work, some of the workmen gather together in one of the huts to relax and sing together. With a combination of traditional and makeshift instruments, they sing the song ‘Tunnel thro’ the mountains’ about the work ... [read more]
‘A life changing experiment’ (2011)
In a tightly edited three-minute series opener the conceit, locations and participants are introduced accompanied by dramatic glimpses of the story which will unfold over three nights as we follow six ordinary Australians taking a dangerous refugee journey in reverse. [read more]
A creep hits town (1985)
An unknown man in a Holden Monaro cruises through an Australian suburb looking for women. Spotting Fran (Noni Hazlehurst) in a phone box he gets out, stares at her lasciviously, blocks her exit and makes a crude, unwelcome pass. She ... [read more]
Tracey, you’re a genius! (2001)
Tracey has created a life-like Shamus hologram but unfortunately it disintegrates when Shamus high fives it. Shamus is quite devastated until they discover that the explosion has brought about dozens of miniature Shamuses. [read more]
