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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]
‘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]
Ken Howard calls the Melbourne Cup (1941)
This is the complete radio broadcast of the 1941 Melbourne Cup, as called by commentator Ken Howard. [read more]
Young people and the Drop-In (1977)
A member of the Addison Road Drop-In provides an on-the-spot commentary on a parking policeman or 'brown bomber’ booking a motorist on Marrickville Road. Inside the recreation room at the centre, the young men play pool and muck around ... [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]
The Radcliffe girls arrive (1990)
Girls from the neighbouring ladies’ college arrive at the boys’ school for a dance, watched by some of the boys who won’t be attending, including Danny (Noah Taylor), who has been grounded for insubordination. In the dance hall Thandiwe (Thandiwe ... [read more]
The greatest Australian prime minister (1966)
Political expert Professor Geoffrey Sawer discusses Deakin’s role in the first decade of Federation. Former prime minister Sir Robert Menzies (1949–66) hails Deakin as Australia’s greatest prime minister. [read more]
‘Get us out of this hellhole’ (2004)
The First Fleet is on its way to Botany Bay. Governor Arthur Phillip (Sam Neill), Reverend Johnson (Garry McDonald) and Lieutenant Clarke (Jack Davenport) discuss the colony’s prospects over dinner. Down below, the convicts scrabble for leftovers. When Clarke visits ... [read more]
The seventh wish lasts forever (1990)
Prince Wilton (Justin Rosniak) is desperate to get rid of the last wish. CW wishes for everyone to like him and he’s turned into a baby. Katie (Ebony Ricketson) now adores him but Wilton can’t change him back because the ... [read more]
Escaping from the Taliban (2002)
Three Afghans have escaped from the Taliban and arrived in Australia as asylum seekers. They express their views of life in Australia and the reasons for escaping from Afghanistan. [read more]
Porridge to the rescue (2005)
Stanley has gone to get some of his mother’s infamously awful, rock-hard porridge. It’s the one thing that doesn’t dissolve in the acid. Unfortunately he meets the bullies the Lupin Lupes again, just as he is about to pour the ... [read more]
At home with the Churchills (1941)
This clip from a home movie filmed by the Australian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, begins with a title card that says ‘At home with the Churchills’ and shows footage of London during the Blitz in 1941 and Sir Winston ... [read more]
Another death in the family (1984)
The family have returned to Maggie’s house for the wake after her brother’s funeral. Uncle Tom (Peter Gwynne) has a heart attack and dies on their sofa in the lounge room just as he’s about to drink a cup of ... [read more]
The merboy (1992)
Linda (Joelene Crnogorac) is shocked to find Andrew (Eamonn Kelly) is now in a wheelchair but then finally understands what has been happening when Andrew leaps into the water to save his father (Peter Bensley) – he has transformed into ... [read more]
The Battlers (1986)
Kylie Tennant talks about researching and writing her third novel The Battlers. [read more]
When a coup is a transfer of power (2001)
In 1965 President Sukarno was forced to hand the leadership of Indonesia to General Suharto. The official line was that it was a gentlemanly transfer of power but in reality President Sukarno had no choice. Journalist Frank Palmos recalls his ... [read more]
The iron bullocks and the railways (1947)
Two more methods of removing felled logs from the forest are shown: a tank-like machine which bulldozes its way through the bush and, where there are more permanent infrastructures, transport by railway. The timber mills – the ‘hives of industry’ ... [read more]
‘Without a care in the world’ (2006)
Zef (voiced by Jono Wood) and his little elephant brother Tutu (voiced by Emily Hunt) laughingly recount their latest adventures with playmate zebras while cooling off in a waterhole. The narrators, a pair of cheetahs (voiced by Len Firth and ... [read more]
The Overland Whippet motor car (1926)
A cut-out picture of the Overland Whippet is accompanied by a caption describing it as ‘America’s first high-speed European-type light car’. The Whippet car lines up with a whippet dog to demonstrate its speed; a large stopwatch shows the car ... [read more]
The siege at Glenrowan (2003)
A large number of police have surrounded the Glenrowan Inn. Ned Kelly and his gang attempt to release the hostages, but the nervous police open fire in the darkness and heavy rain. Superintendent Hare (Geoffrey Rush) calls on his men ... [read more]
