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Songs in the paints (2007)
The artist explains that he thought his use of the image, including his choice of colours, was pretty harmless, but the traditional owners highlight the laws and customs surrounding the reproduction of the Wandjina imagery including the use of colour. [read more]
The English cricket team (1932)
The English captain, Douglas Jardine, practices his driving techniques at the Perth cricket ground. Maurice Leyland stands at the wicket and works on his batting form. Herbert Suttcliffe stands in front of the camera before walking across the ground. Other ... [read more]
‘This is the real world, Eddie!’ (2005)
Eddie (David Wenham) and his wife Tanya (Frances O’Connor) argue one morning about money. She has lost her contract at the university, and hasn’t been able to tell him. He has always been the practical one of the two, but ... [read more]
‘The baker’s dozen’ (1996)
This clip describes how Alexander Riley tracked and caught the murderer Andrew Moss in 1939. [read more]
The new Felicity (1978)
Felicity’s rebellion is now in full swing. She has taken to wearing leathers and breaking into other people’s houses. After a night in Centennial Park, she discovers an old naked man lying near death in a derelict house. In him, ... [read more]
The mug politician (1991)
Jim McClelland had been a minister in the Whitlam Labor Government (1972-1975). He talks to Dinny O’Hearn about being a politician and his naivety in thinking that this meant changing the country. Instead he discovered that it’s all about power. [read more]
‘The oldest trick in the book’ (1986)
Judith (Lindy Davies) coaxes Frank (John Hargreaves) and Malcolm (Colin Friels) to go for a walk. Malcolm wants Frank to explain how he gets the money in a stick-up, but the demonstration goes wrong. In the pub later, Frank’s friend ... [read more]
‘You’re not the same people’ (1986)
After smoking a lot of dope, Trevor (David Argue) asks Kath about the crime she’s charged with – murdering a publican. Kath (Lydia Miller) tells them the real story. Nikki (Gia Carides) asks her why she ran away to Sydney, ... [read more]
Aboriginal people and the dingo (1997)
A scientist takes Rob Bredl to remote Aboriginal cave paintings that depict the closeness of the dingo to humans. [read more]
‘In your time there was the war’ (1985)
Mike (Daniel Cordeaux) is from 1985 and he just wants to go home, to Sydney. He thinks the Clan Murray are crazy hippies, but when they encounter some outsiders, the mutant wanderers, he is astounded as Katrin (Rebecca Rigg) shoots ... [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]
The laundromat and the coffee shop (2002)
Locals come up with an original idea to solve a problem of access to laundry facilities; a community laudromat and coffee shop combined. It’s been going for a year and has brought a disparate community of isolated individuals together. [read more]
‘Women are never true’ (1996)
Sandra, the hospital deputy (Kerry Walker), goes backstage on opening night to introduce the show, unaware that they will perform Così Fan Tutte, not a variety show. Her confusion becomes highly audible as the curtain goes up. Doug (David Wenham), ... [read more]
Spike the monotreme (1995)
Spike, the echidna, forages on land and then goes swimming to cool off. [read more]
Meet the Vanes (1980)
The Vane family gathers at the Christmas dinner table with friends Tony Duff (Sam Neill) and Blake Minor (Rick Ireland). Seen here are Fred Vane (George Dixon), his wife Julie (Carol Burns), daughters Lucinda (Wendy Hughes) and Lydia (Lisa Rogers), ... [read more]
John the tiger (1984)
Noni (Hazlehurst) is going to feed some pretend zoo animals but first she asks the children at home to help her guess what John (Hamblin) is pretending to be. Next she tries to feed the ‘tiger’ some imaginary ‘lovely pineapple ... [read more]
‘Shoot the dog’ (2010)
John Bunting (Daniel Henshall) challenges the teenage Jamie (Lucas Pittaway) to shoot a dog, to prove himself. [read more]
Larry Sitsky comments on the Sydney Opera House (1973)
Composer Larry Sitsky comments that the opera theatre has many faults. Opera director Sam Wanamaker suggests that the space is manageable. [read more]
‘The best thing I ever heard’ (1991)
John Anderson (Daniel Scott) listens dumbfounded to Billy Cross (Miles Davis) and band on the tarmac at the remote west Australian town of Poona Flat. It is 1969, and Cross’s Boeing 707 has made an unscheduled stop, during an international ... [read more]
‘You take the minutes, do ya?’ (2008)
In the first meeting, Alex (Grant Dodwell) sees Freddy (Steve Rodgers) writing and asks if he’s taking the minutes. Freddy explains that he likes to write down things he’s observed as potential material for his stand-up comedy act. Cecil (Don ... [read more]
