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Adapting to the climate (1949)
A group of friends relax and keep cool under the shade of a gum tree in their garden. Two of them flip through an old photo album that contains photographs of the Australian snowfields and the snow gum – a ... [read more]
Departing on the Aurora (1963)
Over aerial shots of Antarctica, narrator John West introduces the story of Douglas Mawson’s first Australian expedition to Antarctica in 1911, on which the official photographer was Frank Hurley. We see some of Hurley’s famous still photographs from that expedition ... [read more]
Dancing in the dark (1989)
Kay (Karen Colston), Louis (Tom Lycos) and Gordon (Jon Darling) have driven to the outback, to get away from Sweetie (Geneviève Lemon) and visit Kay’s mother Flo (Dorothy Barry). Kay finds her mother is a changed woman. With the local ... [read more]
‘Hang by the neck’ (1975)
The villainous Liz (Margaret Laurence) visits the incarcerated Gary (Mike Ferguson) to taunt him about the murder for which she has set him up to take the blame. [read more]
Freedom to the city – Edinburgh (1948)
This clip from a home movie filmed by Australian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, begins with a title card that states ‘Presented by the Corporation of Edinburgh along with the Burgess Ticket conferring the Freedom of the City to Rt. ... [read more]
Queen of the Murray 1951 (1943)
This clip from a colour home movie filmed by Ernest Gourlay Morris in 1951 shows some of the female competitors on a boat on the Murray River and on stage competing for the Queen of the Murray beauty contest at ... [read more]
‘Snap goes the Crunchie’ (1966)
This black-and-white television advertisement for Crunchie is set on a sunny day with a group of young friends playing at the beach. As the Crunchie jingle plays, they eat and 'snap’ their Crunchie bars. The male voice-over describes the bright ... [read more]
‘He calls it the Dreamtime’ (2008)
Rachel Perkins, as narrator, and Max Stuart of the Arrernte Luritja Nation, explain the origin of the term ‘the Dreamtime’ and its importance in Arrernte life. Historians Dick Kimber, Professor Marcia Langton of the Yiman-Bidjara Nation, Gordon Briscoe, a Maraduntjara ... [read more]
Veterans of the waterfront (1953)
Waterside workers haul sacks of flour to be shipped to Europe and Asia for export. A dramatic symphonic score accompanies a voice-over by Jock Levy describing the difficult conditions of the workers (12,000 men – half the total workforce – ... [read more]
The land is sad (1993)
A sweeping aerial view of mountains jutting out of the flat desert-scape. A song of the area plays out in subtitles over the image. An elder tells us about the sacred Ancestor of this area, and his relation to him. [read more]
An attack on the Sabbath (1949)
Government soldiers have taken up positions around the Eureka Stockade, early on the morning of 3 December 1854. The miners do not expect an attack on the Sabbath. It begins with a signal from a bugler. The miners react quickly, ... [read more]
The Hajj: pilgrimage to Mecca (1945)
Every year, hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims make the journey to Mecca in Saudi Arabia for the Hajj. They come by boat, on foot and on camel. On reaching Mecca, they gather at the holy Kaaba and begin their ... [read more]
The straight and narrow (2006)
A photograph of the Lapa footy team posing with a trophy. Clint 'Eastwood’ Cooke the 2004 A Grade Captain speaks about how there is no colour bar, and that the love of football and especially playing for Lapa is the ... [read more]
‘The city of tomorrow’ (1941)
This animated colour cinema advertisement for Bushells tea starts with a map of the world and a voice-over that invites the viewer to 'the world of the future’. International travel is shown using fast planes, ocean liners and cars. Aeroplane ... [read more]
‘Beer for the workers’ (1972)
As the office picnic progresses into the night, the partygoers get drunker, exposing simmering tensions. Clyde, a frustrated musician, tangles with a drunken colleague (Byron Kennedy), then punches the youngest member of staff, Peter (Philip Deamer), who leaves with his ... [read more]
Women walking along the beach (1932)
Three women walk along the shoreline of Blackmans Bay Beach in Tasmania. They then cartwheel across the sand. The same women are shown later on, wearing different clothes, walking through scrub along a fence line. They climb over the fence. [read more]
‘The right time and place’ (1975)
Marion (Jane Vallis) tries to make sense of her changed perspective, as she looks down on the sleeping picnickers. Miranda (Anne Lambert) leads the girls higher, to the foot of a series of strange monoliths, where all four girls lie ... [read more]
‘They’ve sacked the boss’ (1993)
Wife of former Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, Margaret Whitlam, recalls the day that the Governor-General John Kerr sacked her husband on 11 November 1975. At the end of this clip Gough Whitlam is seen on the steps of Parliament House ... [read more]
‘God Save the Queen’ (1975)
This clip directly follows David Smith, official secretary to the Governor-General, reading a proclamation dissolving both houses of Parliament on the steps of old Parliament House, Canberra, on 11 November 1975, a few hours after the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, ... [read more]
It gets in the blood (2005)
Lauren Moret, a nuclear weapons scientist, says that when depleted uranium burns after use in weapons, the radioactive gas released into the atmosphere has deadly effects when ingested into the bloodstream of humans. [read more]
