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The penguin highway (1954)
The chartered Danish ship Kista Dan encounters a thick field of ice 50 kms from the Antarctic coast. They launch one of the Auster aircraft to try to find a way through, and to look for a site for the ... [read more]
The big time (1968)
In one of the first big swells on the north shore of Hawaii in January 1968, the cream of the world’s surfers gather to size each other up at Haleiwa. [read more]
Dipping Sheep (1899)
A farmer pushes sheep underwater with a plunger as they pass through an arsenic sheep dip. [read more]
Pianoforte (1984)
A young woman who yearns to become a concert pianist is rescued from a sleazy cabaret by a mysterious cat burglar with whom she falls in love. [read more]
Us Deadly Mob (2005)
Us Deadly Mob is a short documentary about an Indigenous family of surfers – a 'surf family story’. [read more]
Lonely Hearts (1981)
After his mother dies, Peter (Norman Kaye), a piano tuner, meets Patricia (Wendy Hughes), a shy bank clerk, through a dating agency. He’s approaching 50 and wears a wig, she’s in her 30s and afraid of sex. Their friendship blossoms ... [read more]
Catching Crocodiles (1933)
This wildlife documentary made by Australian Educational Films shows methods used by hunters to catch freshwater and saltwater crocodiles in Australia’s far north. [read more]
Holden Car Cinema Advertisement: On a Tour of Australia’s Banana Plantations (c1955)
This is a cinema advertisement for General Motors Holden in which a couple driving a Holden sedan take a tour of Queensland’s banana plantations. [read more]
Roman holiday (1986)
Alec Moffatt (Rob Steele) and Mavis Davis (Diana Davidson) visit the Vatican. In Sydney, Mavis’s husband Roly (Allan Penney) visits what he thinks is Rome. Wally (Philip Quast), Eddie (Kelly Dingwall) and Ophelia (Gosia Dobrowolska) must think fast to keep ... [read more]
Australasian Gazette – Sheep Dog Trial (1915)
This newsreel segment from 1915 shows a typical Australian showground and a scene of a sheepdog trainer and a sheepdog herding three sheep into a pen. [read more]
Australasian Gazette – Shopping Week, Sydney (c1926)
This Australasian Gazette newsreel segment from approximately 1926 shows a ‘monster procession’ as part of Shopping Week in Bondi Junction, Sydney. [read more]
National Treasures – Cuc Lam’s Suitcase (2004)
If you were forced to leave your home forever, what would you take with you? Vietnamese refugee Cuc Lam took family photos and jewellery but sacrificed one precious possession to buy a suitcase, now in Melbourne’s Immigration Museum. [read more]
Circuit court in session (2007)
Aboriginal Legal Service lawyer Drew Ellis (Aaron Pedersen) arrives by plane for his first day in the Circuit Court, at the Junction Court of Petty Sessions in a remote Aboriginal community. He greets the Legal Aid lawyer, Ellie Zdybicka (Marta ... [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]
‘They always do’ (1996)
The Special Operations Unit surround a suspect’s boat, as detectives Frank Holloway (Colin Friels) and Rachel Goldstein (Catherine McClements) look on. [read more]
Dimpel, Konrad: German Christmas celebrations, Lutheran Sunday School picnic (c1966)
A silent, black and white home movie containing scenes from a Lutheran Sunday School picnic, filmed by Canberra resident and amateur filmmaker Konrad Dimpel. [read more]
Message Stick – Wayne’s World (2005)
An episode that introduces us to award-winning filmmaker and actor Wayne Blair. [read more]
Constructing the arch (1931)
A view of the main bearing and arch ribs shows the two sides of the cantilever arches almost meeting. The bottom chord of one of the bridge panels is erected, weighing 61 tonnes. The panel is lifted by crane and ... [read more]
Message Stick – Bill’s Wake (2001)
Bill Neidjie decided to have a wake while he was alive, rather than waiting until his death, to hear what everyone would say about him. [read more]
Measuring the cost (2003)
While the Australian government has agreed to fund the vaccine for meningococcal C for the 1 to 19 age group, there’s another deadly strain called pneumococcal meningitis for which the vaccine is not subsidised by the government. [read more]
