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‘This is all we’ve got’ (1986)
The drive-in detainees become angry when Asians arrive. Jimmy (Ned Manning) argues with Carmen (Natalie McCurry) about her reaction to the newcomers. He asks her to escape with him. [read more]
New girl (1985)
Buzz (Mitch Ambrose) checks out the new girl at the rink. His girlfriend Francine (Shanti Gudgeon) is jealous and calls Susan (Sherie Graham) a ‘daddy’s girl’. When Susan’s dad (Bruce Myles) arrives with a jumper for her, Buzz introduces himself ... [read more]
Warfare and its consequences (1992)
In a wide shot, many highlanders are chanting and running through the grass with spears. Joe sits at home looking distraught. The Ganiga return to the village and attend to a wounded man. They can’t take him to the hospital ... [read more]
‘This is Streeton!’ (1988)
Johnno (Damien Walters) is checking his hearing aid when the local bus arrives, bringing a newcomer to the town. It is Tony (Joe Petruzzi), the Italian migrant, eager to begin a new life in Australia. Intrigued, Johnno follows Tony to ... [read more]
Conversations (2005)
Wayne Blair talks about the experience of acting in the play Conversations with the Dead, and the television series Water Rats (2001), discussing the pitfalls of being an actor in work, and out of work. [read more]
Beautiful Melbourne? (1947)
This silent, black-and-white clip paints a harsh picture of life for a family living in a slum area of Melbourne, Victoria, in the 1940s. The dilapidated housing is shelter for a family with many children living in a very small ... [read more]
Willie’s song (1939)
Willie lounges and plays while the other animals, showing foresight, collect and deposit food (or in the case of the dog, signposts) in the bank. [read more]
Christmas Day at home, 1945 (1945)
With all three brothers home in time for Christmas, the men relax in the sun for an afternoon drink with their uncle Stan. Mrs Sprod, Kathleen and her aunt Mary also enjoy Christmas day and smoke a cigarette in the ... [read more]
Saturday in Sydney (1967)
Air Vice-Marshall Ky and Mme Ky finish their Brisbane visit, and the following day travel to Sydney. [read more]
‘A great new feeling’ (1969)
This advertisement for the 1969 Holden HT Kingswood sedan features voice-over narration and an accompanying jingle about the 'new generation Holden’. It begins and ends with typical scenes of friends at the beach. The Kingswood drives through bushland to a ... [read more]
Goodbye Somoza (1984)
Set to a jaunty song about having fun in Nicaragua, Bradbury uses stills and black and white archival footage to describe Somoza’s rise to power, backed by the US who provided military training and weapons as well as links to ... [read more]
Hoyts talking pictures roadshow (1929)
An intertitle invites viewers to 'see for a brief moment’ the sound equipment for talking pictures. Then a Hoyts Talking Pictures Roadshow sound unit truck is seen coming down the street. Two uniformed men open the back doors and begin ... [read more]
Her brilliant career (1996)
Judy Davis attended a convent school in Western Australia during the late 1960s when the Catholic Church was in turmoil. When she left school in the early 1970s, there were no Australian female actor role models for her to emulate. ... [read more]
Leunig smells the flowers (1995)
Artist Michael Leunig explains why he and his wife don’t have a television set. [read more]
Don’t leave me, cop (1933)
On his new beat, the hard-bitten slum street of Harmony Row, Constable Dreadnought (as he is now known) falls victim to a heartless scam, when a criminal guns down a small boy, Leonard (Willie Kerr). [read more]
My brother’s keeper (2007)
Bra Boys members recall how their group started in the early 1990s. For Sunny and Koby Abberton and Jack Kingsley the Bra Boys were a means of survival. Aboriginal former pro-surfer Maurice Cole touches on the darker side of the ... [read more]
Young and reckless (1974)
Psychologist Hugh Mackay talks about the fact that society is quite prepared to hand young people a powerful machine that can kill, when they are still in their young adult stage of risk-taking. [read more]
Port Arthur (1932)
The convict history of the Tasmanian settlement of Port Arthur is explained in this clip, with a voice-over accompanying scenes of the site. Convict history is re-enacted to evoke the past. A couple and a tour group walk through the ... [read more]
Menzies in Cairo (1941)
This clip from a Menzies home movie features the Prime Minister inspecting Australian troops stationed in Cairo in 1941. We then see him inspecting Bardia, Tobruk and Benghazi from the air before arriving at an airbase to meet some of ... [read more]
