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Sun worshippers (1924)
This newsreel from approximately 1924 shows surfers and swimmers enjoying the first day of real summer weather of the season. It opens with a wide shot of the northern end of Bondi Beach. Although there are some buildings on the ... [read more]
National service (1915)
This clip begins with text outlining Colonel Cameron’s suggestion on returning from the Dardanelles that Australia should introduce compulsory national service. A white outline of Australia and New Zealand is turned sideways to form the head of a caricatured Australian ... [read more]
A trip to the cinema (1941)
In a burst of colour, eight children of various ages happily stream out of a suburban house and pile (miraculously) into a car waiting outside. The film then cuts to the children getting out of the other side of the ... [read more]
Passing the baton (2003)
Peter Rose recalls that his younger brother Bobby Rose Junior began to show his flair for football from an early age. It was always assumed that both boys would follow their father into the Collingwood Club to play football. [read more]
Illusion and confusion (2007)
A man returns home to his family and hides a mirror in a drawer. Family life is disrupted when his relatives find it and mistake their reflections for those of others. [read more]
Along the Murray River (1920)
A team of rowers pass under the Swan Hill drawbridge on the Murray River. A paddle-steamer takes passengers down the Murray River. Different angles from the steamer capture views of the Murray River and the surrounding landscape. In this clip ... [read more]
The dream house (2003)
Rob arrives for a tour of the house he designed and built for his own family but was unable to finish for financial reasons. It’s now owned by another family who love it dearly. [read more]
Bernard Holtermann (1983)
Bernard Holtermann was a German migrant who arrived in Australia in 1858. In 1882 Holtermann found the largest gold nugget unearthed in the world at the time. He used his newly found riches to set up as a photographer. His ... [read more]
Petrol for the cities (1923)
A fleet of Shell oil trucks carrying tankers of oil arrive in Melbourne. As the convoy arrives, the bustle of the city – its transport, people and buildings – form the backdrop. Small boats are docked in the harbour and ... [read more]
Frank Thring and his stars (1931)
Dressed in a dinner suit, Frank Thring – film director and head of Efftee Film Studios – addresses the audience in a speech to camera which introduces the studio’s first all-Australian talking picture program. Thring outlines his hopes for the ... [read more]
Where are the children? (2002)
The food gathering expedition returns to find the children left at the camp missing. The tracks reveal that a white man with boots had entered the camp and taken the children while the older women slept. The camp begins to ... [read more]
The eggs are stolen (1905)
Two thieves have climbed into the rich farmer’s house and found the secret basement room full of golden eggs. The thieves steal the eggs by throwing them out the window and then escape. The farmer returns to the room and ... [read more]
The Fluid Mechanics Laboratories (1967)
A demonstration of how the hydrology testing and experimentation, carried out by the Snowy Mountains Scheme, was directly applied to the construction of the Geehi Dam. [read more]
‘Those Who Love’ fragment (1926)
The single reel containing the almost three minutes that survive of Those Who Love consists of extracts from four scenes – dancers at a beach party, events surrounding Barry’s and Lola’s first meeting at a cabaret, and a romantic scene ... [read more]
‘Rip the head off it’ (1972)
The senior clerk Mr Farrell (Francis Flannigan) brings pencils to Mara, the senior typist (Kate Fitzpatrick) for sharpening. The younger men in the office leer, as we hear rude comments on the soundtrack. Clyde (John Wood) makes the sexual innuendo ... [read more]
‘You run an impressive operation’ (1985)
Becker (Eric Roberts) visits T George McDowell (Bill Kerr) at his bottling plant in Anderson Valley. He offers to help McDowell modernise his business. [read more]
Learning to read (2000)
After discovering that his cellmate and ‘protector’ Williams (Tony Martin) can’t read, Sonny (Kick Gurry) teaches him. [read more]
Violence and brutality (1980)
A radio broadcast quotes from Jean Genet’s essay ‘Violence and Brutality’ (1977) while a bomb is constructed. [read more]
‘The street of many colours’ (1990)
The neighbours follow the Armstrong-Taylors’ lead and repaint their houses. [read more]
A lifelong ritual (1997)
Through illness, adolescence, travel, married life and old age, a woman (voiced by Arianthe Galani) recalls a lifelong ritual, started by her father when she was a baby, of taking a picture of herself every other day. [read more]
