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Work of the devil (1999)
Two long lines of seated men wait for food, while others pass out implements and serve. Ru explains the ritual experts make food for them to protect them from certain things and keep them strong, healthy and attractive. The men ... [read more]
Forgetting about the past (1985)
Stuart Wilkins (David Kennedy) goes to a Sydney boarding school to find his son Tommy (Jamie Agius). The Catholic principal (Rhys McConnochie) tells him to come back when he has arranged it with the child’s mother. The boy’s grandfather (Ray ... [read more]
The development of freestyle swimming (1952)
This clip shows the different techniques and styles used in freestyle swimming from the 1880s through to the development of the trudgen style and Australian crawl. Former Australian swimming champions demonstrate the techniques used by past pioneers of the style. ... [read more]
Against narrative (1992)
Academic Michael Jennings discusses Benjamin’s ideas about narrative in the context of the Weimar Republic of the 1920s and early ‘30s. This is juxtaposed with early ‘90s street scenes from a newly unified Berlin, including the partly destroyed Berlin Wall. ... [read more]
Racism abroad (2004)
African American soldiers who were stationed in Queensland during the Second World War talk about how they were treated with prejudice by the white American military police and white American soldiers, and recall the contrasting friendliness of the Australians. Townsville ... [read more]
The faith of Father Dixon (1993)
In re-enactment, Father Dixon speaks to a couple that saw Max Stuart at a carnival at the time of the murder, providing an alibi. Over historical footage of Westminster, we hear that a plea to stay the execution of Stuart ... [read more]
Suing the drug companies (2004)
Law firm Baum Hedlund undertook a class action for people suffering from the side effects of antidepressant drugs. Attorney Karen Barth says that the law firm was overrun with thousands of calls from victims. [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]
The end of an era (1958)
This is the end for old Adaminaby. Some of the residents have already moved their homes to the new site on trucks, others have simply taken what they could and moved on. [read more]
Removal and the kinship system (2006)
This clip shows historic footage of the removal of the people from the Charles Creek mission station and Aboriginal people working in the pastoral industry. Agnes talks about the removal of the entire mission station to Santa Teresa; her experience ... [read more]
The chief wakes up (1962)
This clip is from the twelfth and final episode of Wambidgee, 'The Chief Wakes Up’. Wambidgee wakes the chief from sleep and tell him that there is a crocodile in the creek. The chief feels too tired and tells Wambidgee ... [read more]
Neurosurgery and the soul (1996)
Two neurosurgeons discuss the scientific and mechanical nature of their work and one lightheartedly wonders: if a soul exists, where it would show up on a scan? [read more]
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]
Mary shines but Max explodes (2009)
At her father’s grave, Mary (voiced by Toni Collette) looks at the little heart Max sent her, where it is written, ‘Love Yourself First’. She decides to take happiness into her life, marries her love Damien (Eric Bana), and writes ... [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]
‘I come from the future’ (1987)
Geologist Annie (Nikki Coghill) helps wounded time traveller Petra (Carrie Fisher). Petra convinces Ballard (Tom Burlinson) to tell Annie about their mission. Annie tentatively agrees to help. [read more]
