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Alma enters the picture (2006)
Rupert Kathner (Ben Mendelsohn) is having trouble selling his film to production houses. As unimpressed studio executives watch his film in the cinema, Alma Brooks (Victoria Hill), a secretary, enters with cups of tea and eagerly watches the footage. Brooks ... [read more]
Waiting for a miracle (2004)
Former Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Fraser, and former Liberal Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Ian MacPhee, talk to camera about the impact of mandatory detention on a child’s future and what a country’s immigration policy says about the ... [read more]
The bank you own (1950)
The ad begins with a narrator stating that ‘in this day and age the secret of success is careful planning’. He espouses the importance of having a ‘plan for the future’, and draws parallels between the ‘affairs of the nation’ ... [read more]
End of the Long March (1986)
The Long March ended in Shensi Province. The Communist Chinese had to cross cold, wet, swampy grasslands. Of the 40,000 who set out only 8,000 survived the treacherous marshy ground. However, they capture the crucial pass and win a decisive ... [read more]
Col’n Carpenter (1988)
Col’n Carpenter (Kym Gyngell) arrives at a date’s house to pick her up. The door is answered by her father (Mark Mitchell). [read more]
Uncle Arthur home movies (1988)
Uncle Arthur (Glenn Robbins) screens a home movie of a backyard BBQ. [read more]
Is this a time for the reserve powers? (1983)
Sir John Kerr (John Meillon) has invited the Prime Minister (Max Phipps) to a celebratory drink with the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Abdul Razak (Peter Collingwood). Razak boldly brings up the issue of the Governor-General’s role in this time ... [read more]
School news with Kylie Mole (1988)
Kylie Mole (Mary-Anne Fahey) talks about her essay on the Church of England. [read more]
‘By the hundred thousand tons’ (1957)
This clip depicts life for Australian miners prior to the Second World War. Mine pits and shafts are abandoned because of fire or flood and coal miners move to the next job, leaving behind ghost towns in their wake. Mine ... [read more]
In the audience at Cannes (2006)
Margaret Pomeranz concludes her warm review of Ten Canoes with a reference to how warmly the film was received at Cannes. David Stratton was actually at Cannes and takes up the theme by describing what it felt like to be ... [read more]
The dreams of our pioneers (1958)
As the Eucumbene Dam (then called Adaminaby Dam) nears completion, the final building arrives at the new Adaminaby, and the waters of the new Lake Eucumbene begin to rise. [read more]
Buddha and the Bodhi Tree (2001)
Dr Rachel Kohn takes us to India where the Buddha sat and meditated under the Bodhi Tree for four weeks, resolving to find the origin of suffering and the means to eliminate it. [read more]
‘Treaty’ (1991)
‘Treaty’ was one of the singles lifted from Yothu Yindi’s ‘Tribal Voice’ album, released in 1991. This is an excerpt from the first verse and chorus. [read more]
‘Take time by the forelock’ (1948)
This clip shows the first two minutes of the travelogue Skyway Express. It was produced in the late 1940s for exhibition in the cinema. It shows the start of a passenger plane journey to London. The clip covers the journey ... [read more]
‘One poor miserable little creature’ (1987)
A Tasmanian tiger paces inside its caged enclosure, then is seen in its native environment and in suburbia. In voice-over, people recount their sightings of the animal. [read more]
The essence of comedy (1994)
In this clip, actors Ruth Cracknell and Garry McDonald rehearse a scene from Mother and Son (1985-94) with director Geoff Portmann. Portmann talks about Cracknell’s acting method and Cracknell reflects on the role of comedy in presenting serious subjects. The ... [read more]
‘The Snowy Mountains song’ (1963)
At night, in the recreation hut of one of the Snowy Mountains Scheme workers’ camps, the men sing 'The Snowy Mountains song’. [read more]
From joy to tantrum (1995)
The film opens with Jane (voiced by Rachel Griffiths) swimming in the sea she loves, walking by its shore and telling us of her joy at being pregnant. But when indoors, her mood flares into a tantrum. [read more]
‘The Sentimental Bloke’ film (2004)
Warren Brown takes us into the vaults of the NFSA to find out why the 1919 silent movie The Sentimental Bloke is regarded as one of the greatest Australian films. [read more]
The early days of coal mining (1957)
This clip re-creates the early days of mining in Australia, when contract workers laboured for long hours underground in dangerous conditions. In sunny scenes above ground filmed in colour, a group of contractors walk to the mine with their equipment. ... [read more]
