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New Guinea and the RAAF (1970)
This clip begins with crowds of schoolchildren gathered around an RAAF aeroplane at a New Guinea base. Some of the boys look beneath the cockpit area. A brief shot of a map of New Guinea is ... [read more]
The Christmas pudding affair (1986)
Grandma (Gwen Plumb) is woken up by cooking smells and knows intuitively that it’s her son-in-law stealing a march on her by starting the preparations for the Christmas pudding. She rushes into the kitchen to stop him, but is disarmed ... [read more]
The powerful keep control (2007)
Those on the top deck object to what is happening below and overreact. Noam Chomsky notes that when the populace calls for more freedoms or more rights, in situations where power is concentrated, the reaction ultimately results in more repression. ... [read more]
Interviewing the mother superior of rock (1975)
Nothing fazes Norman Gunston as he fronts the great legend of rock, Frank Zappa from the American band 'The Mothers of Invention’. Zappa is puzzled but plays along becoming more amused as the interview proceeds. [read more]
Women join the war effort (1943)
Gwennie (Muriel Steinbeck) is just one of the thousands of women who have joined the war effort – she works in a munitions factory putting trinitrotoluene, or TNT, into shells. She explains that in the last war women 'couldn’t ... [read more]
Mercenaries, misfits and missionaries (1996)
Peter Barter, the Governor of Madang Province, comments that democracy thrives in Papua New Guinea after twenty years of independence. [read more]
The sign says ‘No music!’ (1992)
Max (Robert Peschel) and Paul (Luke Carroll) upset Mr Fish (Mark Mitchell) by playing percussion music in his foyer, but when Lotis the lift opens her doors and a noisy Chinese dragon called Peter comes out into the foyer, Mr ... [read more]
‘The food of love’ (1996)
David has returned to Perth a broken man, after his collapse on stage at the Royal College of Music. He has been in and out of mental institutions and half-way houses until he meets Sylvia (Sonia Todd), restaurant owner at ... [read more]
Food rations in Cuba (2002)
An older man in the street says socialism has ensured that the people don’t starve. Basic food is available to all citizens. No other South American country can claim this. Fidel Castro is a hero to the older Cubans. [read more]
‘The gentleman’s war is over’ (1979)
In a lonely, windswept hill camp, far out in the veldt, Captain Hunt (Terence Donovan) instructs Captain Taylor (John Waters) to execute Boer prisoners brought in by Morant (Edward Woodward). When Morant queries the order to shoot prisoners, Hunt tells ... [read more]
The main street of town (1968)
Skippy, now on the run, pauses at the edge of town. Dr Stark’s henchmen, McMurtrie (Red Moore) and Snapes (Don Crosby), comment that she’ll end up on the main street and so she does. Pursued, she finds herself on the ... [read more]
One version of an interrogation (2002)
In a flashback, Max Stuart (David Ngoombujarra) is under interrogation in the Ceduna police station. Constable Jones (Garry Waddell) beats him, another policeman throttles him. Detective Sergeant Turner (Roy Billing) begins to dictate a confession, correcting Stuart’s English for the ... [read more]
From South Australia to the NT (1943)
This clip captures some of the journey by Australian troops from South Australia to the Northern Territory on the old Ghan railway. It begins at Quorn in South Australia and shows the front of the town hotel; an officer in ... [read more]
The Centenary Dog Club (1934)
This clip shows dog owners and their canine pets on proud display at the Centenary Dog Club at Melbourne Showgrounds. Each dog is identified by name and breed, along with their owners, in the commentary given by Frank Harvey. [read more]
A shape at the window (1982)
Dr Barton (Alex Scott) tells Linda (Jacki Kerin) to forget the past. Returning to Montclare, Linda sees a figure at her bedroom window wearing her mother’s red dress. Housekeeper Connie (Gerda Nicolson) says only she and Lance (Charles McCallum) are ... [read more]
Freedom no bounds (2006)
Deborah Mailman reads the voice-over narration from Connie’s autobiography When You Grow Up. The narration is cut with black-and-white photographs of Connie when she was younger, as well as more recent live interview footage of Aunty Connie. Connie tells us ... [read more]
‘She has the gift’ (2004)
Jack Flange (Alex O’Loughlin) has his eye on a local girl, Pearl (Diana Glenn). His boss Brownie (David Field) watches another woman – his estranged wife Trish (Kerry Armstrong), who has started farming her own leases nearby. Brownie’s oysters are ... [read more]
‘I just didn’t seem to fit in’ (1991)
Vietnam veterans Peter Stainthorpe and Rowan Marsh recall returning to Melbourne after two years of active service in Vietnam. They felt that nothing had changed at home and yet they had changed. They sought out the company of fellow veterans. [read more]
Dancing on the beach (1939)
Filmed in slow motion, two women and a man (Paul Petroff) make human formations on the shoreline of the beach. A woman dressed in black swimwear runs towards Petroff and leaps into his arms. He holds her over his head ... [read more]
Why? (2004)
A screen filled with water, red with the blood of the young Rosie. In voice-over, Rosie tells us she considered ending her life. [read more]
