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‘Have a good day and don’t be a nuisance …’ (1977)
Mrs Bilson (Ruth Cracknell) appears to be a doddering old lady when the doctor (Gerry Duggan) collects her from the farmhouse where she’s cared for by her daughter Mrs Herbert (Jude Kuring). In the car, she becomes a different person ... [read more]
Tony’s plan (1969)
Peg Sylvester (Hazel Phillips) and her daughter Kim (Bronwyn Barber) visit Peg’s nephew, Paul Lawrence (Sean McEuan). Paul asks Kim’s boyfriend Tony Brown (Rod Mullinar) for help on a design project. Tony agrees, as long as Paul’s friend, Leigh (Ann ... [read more]
A disturbing dream (1982)
Linda Stevens (Jacki Kerin) dreams of her childhood. Aged four, Linda (Kristine Marshall) wanders through the deserted hallways of Montclare. [read more]
The fire service (1949)
Shots of bushfires burning are followed by a forest destroyed by fire. The voice-over explains that, to minimise the effect of bushfires, organised firefighters practice emergency response with ‘properly designed’ equipment. Entering a forest on an access road, the team ... [read more]
Hitching a ride (2005)
The Huygens probe must release from the Cassini mother ship and begin its own exploration of Titan, the biggest of Saturn’s moons, offering scientists information which they hope will tell them more about the origins of the universe. [read more]
‘The dingo’s got my baby!’ (1988)
At a camping ground near Uluru (Ayers Rock), Lindy Chamberlain (Meryl Streep) witnesses a dingo carrying her baby Azaria from a tent. Michael Chamberlain (Sam Neill) begins a search in the darkness. [read more]
‘A broad and noble river’ (1984)
Using the whaleboat the party had carried with them on all their overland journeys, Captain Charles Sturt (played here by Steven Grives) and his team were finally able to put it to good use when they came upon the Murrumbidgee. ... [read more]
The lure (2001)
Harry (Tony Barry) gives Max (Michael Tuahine) a lure go fishing. Max is startled when one of the fish seems to speak to him, later warning him against his boss (Nicholas Papademetriou). At the factory, Max and Dimitra (Phaedra Nicolaidis) ... [read more]
A conquering people (1963)
Judith Wright says that, for Australians, the wealth of our nation has become more important than the wellbeing of its people. [read more]
Nearing the end (1985)
Burke (Jack Thompson), Wills (Nigel Havers) and King (Matthew Fargher) trudge towards the depot they left more than four months earlier at Cooper Creek. It is 21 April 1861. They have no food and the fourth member of the party, ... [read more]
The ruined Saturday (1991)
Arthur (Garry McDonald) wants to spend a quiet Saturday morning at home reading the paper while he drinks a cup of tea. Suddenly there’s a knock on the door and Maggie is accused of stealing a clock from the house ... [read more]
Serving the troops (1919)
This clip shows a range of assistance and relief activities that the Red Cross undertook around the First World War including: preparing linen; serving tea and biscuits to troops; providing relief to convalescing soldiers; and packing and loading supply bundles. [read more]
Heat of the Pilbara – ‘white with salt’ (2006)
Blue skies, as the camera pans down, the frame rests on 'Wickham, Western Australia’. A Torres Strait man recalls how he came to work on the railway and stayed. As he describes his experiences we see film of black and ... [read more]
‘We shall only be gone a little while’ (1975)
After their picnic lunch, school friends Miranda (Anne Lambert), Marion (Jane Vallis) and Irma (Karen Robson) ask permission from their French mistress Mademoiselle de Portiers (Helen Morse) to go for a walk around the base of the rock. Overweight Edith ... [read more]
Telegraphists spread the news (1913)
The intertitles at the beginning of this clip explain it all: ‘Telegraphists at work sending the news to Sydney. 200 words a minute. A record’. [read more]
Cutting across the vein (1996)
The rehearsals have gone underground, after the hospital administrator, Mr Kerner, has sacked Lewis (Ben Mendelsohn). The actors now meet in secret at night, in the disused hospital laundry. Lewis has to comfort a distraught Ruth (Pamela Rabe), after she ... [read more]
Launching the lifeboat (1933)
This montage of still and moving images taken by Frank Hurley shows the launching of a lifeboat during the Antarctic expedition led by Ernest Shackleton in 1914-16. As indicated on the map, they hoped to sail the boat 800 miles ... [read more]
Werribee Sewage Farm (1957)
This clip features the Werribee Sewage Farm (now known as Melbourne Water’s Western Treatment Plant) west of Melbourne, which treats the city’s water by land and grass filtration. Open channels guide the sewage across the farm’s acreage and link to ... [read more]
‘I’m a practising Catholic’ (1972)
Sonia (Lynn Rainbow) discovers why she will always be ‘the other woman’ to Gordon (Joe James), a married man; his wife (Shirley Cameron) won’t divorce him because of her Catholicism. [read more]
‘Of Middle Eastern appearance’ (2007)
After the shooting of a police officer, the call goes out to look for suspects ‘of Middle Eastern appearance’ and police target the Arab community. At the office, Zane Malik (Don Hany) clashes with his superiors Patricia Wright (Susie Porter) ... [read more]
