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Miles jumps in (1991)
‘Dingo’ Anderson (Colin Friels) and Billy Cross (Miles Davis) visit a famous jazz club in Paris. Billy asks the bandleader, an old friend (Onzy Matthews), if his friend can sit in. ‘Dingo’ makes a big splash, but the place erupts ... [read more]
The job interview (1974)
A dramatised scene from the diary memories of Percy Deane (Harold Hopkins), who became secretary to Prime Minister WM Hughes (Martin Vaughan). [read more]
Winter comes (1939)
The seasons change and Willie Wombat realises he’s going to need food for the winter. He tries to ‘withdraw’ some food from the bank. [read more]
Her brilliant career (1996)
Judy Davis attended a convent school in Western Australia during the late 1960s when the Catholic Church was in turmoil. When she left school in the early 1970s, there were no Australian female actor role models for her to emulate. ... [read more]
The legend of the Devils Pool (2005)
Annie Wonga, Yidinji elder, tells the Dreaming story of the Devils Pool. [read more]
‘He did his duty’ (1915)
Will (Guy Hastings) joins his friends in Martin Place, Sydney, for a drink. They discuss the war while drinking and Will urges them to join up. He places a recruiting poster on the hotel wall, but a stranger rips it ... [read more]
The beef cattle industry (1934)
This clip features scenes on a cattle station including the herding of cattle, bull riding, cattle passing through a trough, mustering, stockmen setting up camp and cattle inoculation. [read more]
Rights and wrongs (2007)
Michael (Kelton Pell) comes to see Rick (Kieran Darcy-Smith) about his wages. Rick tells him he can’t afford to pay and if he did pay, Michael would have to pay rent on his house and buy his own food. Michael ... [read more]
‘Nothing happened’ (2007)
The tension erupts in the desert as Taylor (Scott Mechlowicz) tells Alex (Shaun Evans) that Sophie (Amelia Warner) spent the night with him. They fight, and Taylor becomes the victim in Sophie’s eyes. Frustrated, injured and ill from the drugs ... [read more]
‘I wanted to get closer to reality’ (2006)
In an excerpt from the only surviving interview with Bob Mathews, one of the founders of the Realist Film Unit, he describes the beginnings of his interest in film. Meanwhile, filmmaker John Hughes looks through the old film canisters Mathews’s ... [read more]
Lester’s story (1991)
Veteran trainer Lester (Gandhi MacIntyre) tells young boxer Skip (Noah Taylor) about the injury that ended his career. [read more]
‘You could have someone happy’ (1983)
Stella (Geraldine Haywood) stays for dinner with Pam (Gabrielle Shornegg) and her family. An argument breaks out between Pam’s mother (Colleen Fitzpatrick), father (Paul Chubb) and sister (Joanne Gabbe). [read more]
‘I want everything fixed!’ (1985)
Colin (Chris Haywood) has returned home after hospital treatment. He goes to the State Library to research the effects of Agent Orange, after reading news reports of American research implicating it in cancer and birth defects. Back home, he tells ... [read more]
Wattie and Agnes Doig remember (1983)
Wattie and Agnes Doig recall life on the Gippsland coalfields in the 1930s. [read more]
On the tracks (1940)
The Spirit of Progress train is filmed from different angles as it passes the camera, followed by a tracking shot of the train tracks taken from on board the train. The next section is a dramatised sequence which shows a ... [read more]
The Coca–Cola Kid arrives (1985)
Australian Coca-Cola boss Frank Hunter (Max Gillies) tells second-in-command Fred (Paul Chubb) that Becker (Eric Roberts) is a whiz-kid. Terri (Greta Scacchi) starts work as Becker’s secretary. [read more]
Looking for horses (2001)
The stop-motion animated short Looking for Horses can be viewed here in its entirety. During a summer holiday, two sisters (voiced by Gabrielle Vening and Celesta Vinckier) discover the truth about the marriage of their parents (voiced by Christina Louis ... [read more]
Call to action (1985)
May Pennefather, a nurse, volunteers to go to help the republican forces in Spain fight the overthrow of the government by a nationalist military coup. [read more]
Dance with me (1982)
Margaret Coleman (Diana McLean) is having a party to celebrate her investment in the film project of her lover Mangione (Frank Gallacher) but things are not going well. Her husband Dick (Ronald Falk) has discovered just how much money Margaret ... [read more]