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Preparations for the carnival (1952)
A voice-over prompts the question, would you meet your neighbours with warmth and friendship or with bombs? Images of friendly Chinese people are contrasted with the bombs and destruction of war. This then cuts to youth erecting posters for the ... [read more]
A child is lost (1987)
A child is missing and the family frantically search the streets of Surry Hills to find her. By the time the child is found and returned to her mother (Anna Hruby) and father (Shane Connor) we’ve been introduced to all ... [read more]
An ill wind (1985)
Two US weathermen were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation when the US exploded a test hydrogen bomb in the Marshall Islands in 1954. Lamont Noley believes their exposure was the result of insufficient knowledge and care. Don Baker believes ... [read more]
Building pyramids (1992)
Young Bert (Kevin Jones) is caught up in the dream to build a huge church and a religious community in the middle of nowhere. He’s willing to give his all without realising that the dream is demented and Brother O’Neill ... [read more]
Patriotic procession (1915)
This newsreel segment shows a parade in 1915 for the French Red Cross. People dressed in costumes walk, ride horses or ride in horse-drawn carriages along an inner-city street of Melbourne, Victoria while trams can be seen in the background. ... [read more]
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]
‘A second-class Englishman’ (1969)
Jackie (Jeanie Drynan) is leaving on an Italian ship for Europe. When her friends gather on board for a farewell drink, Noel Oakshot (David Turnbull) tells Will Gardiner (Mark McManus) that he can’t recommend him as writer for a new ... [read more]
Sandra visits her son in jail (1998)
In one of the film’s flashes forward, Sandra Sprague (Lynette Curran) visits her son Brett (David Wenham) in his prison cell. He is upset when she comes alone. He had asked her to bring Michelle, his girlfriend, but she wants ... [read more]
Falkiner cane harvester in operation (1925)
The harvester is operated by a person seated on one side of the machine. The camera films, from various positions, the harvester as it is guided along the edge of the cane field. Men walk behind the harvester bunching together ... [read more]
The honeymooners return (1929)
This clip is part two in a three-part, serialised Bushells tea cinema advertisement. It shows the newly-married couple returning from their honeymoon on a cruise ship, proving that the tea reading in part one has come true. As they enter ... [read more]
Dancing in the garden of Eden (1933)
Dad Hayseed (Cecil Kellaway) is surprised when his peaceful Sunday is disturbed by a line of tap dancing girls in hiking shorts. He goes to quieten them down and meets the Townleighs, a well-to-do Sydney family enjoying a ramble in ... [read more]
Belonging to Australia (2004)
Eric Bana insists that he doesn’t feel obliged to return to make films in Australia, he simply follows good projects, like the Australian gem The Nugget which he returned for after filming The Hulk in Hollywood in 2003. [read more]
A film with extreme violence (2005)
David Stratton adds his bit to Margaret’s review. He’s going to give it a high score but he’s annoyed that the film claims to be based on true stories when he insists it’s not. However, what he particularly deplores, and ... [read more]
‘Everyone thinks you’re odd’ (1996)
Vicki-Anne (Rebecca Frith) is horrified to see that her sister Dimity (Miranda Otto) has come home late one night with Ken Sherry (George Shevtsov). Vicki-Anne bangs on Sherry’s front door, interrupting their attempt to get intimate. Dimity rushes home and ... [read more]
‘The path of wild abandon’ (2006)
Dan (Heath Ledger) and Candy (Abbie Cornish) visit Casper (Geoffrey Rush), an old friend of Dan’s who’s an associate professor of organic chemistry. He often makes his own heroin. Dan borrows $100 for a hit. He and Candy time their ... [read more]
‘Buy Australian goods’ (1924)
Packaged bundles of Australian woollen goods are ready for despatch to the capital cities nationwide. An intertitle introduces Miss Australia who appeals for the viewers’ support. A woman stands against a brick building behind a large Australian shaped sign which ... [read more]
Home to Galway (2004)
After her dramatic first visit to Australia, it’s early morning when Hannah (Lynn Styles) finally returns to her boarding school in Galway. Her roommate Tara (Danielle Fox-Clarke) is suspicious. Snooping around, she is surprised to find beach sand in Hannah’s ... [read more]
An Australian voice (1977)
A powerful use of an actor’s voice over photographs of Mrs McLeod Lindsay, as she struggles to recall the events of that terrible night when she was brutally attacked. [read more]
The great unknown (1984)
As the navigators gaze on the arid coastline of this great south land, they dream about what might be beyond the forbidding cliffs. Was there a great inland sea, or a passage for ships to travel through, or was there ... [read more]
Memories (2004)
Filmmaker Clara Law has given Trish and Ali some homework – she has asked them to respond to a series of word-prompts including the words ‘ancestors’ and ‘sea’. Against a montage of quiet landscapes and a sparse score, Trish narrates ... [read more]
