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Unusual pets (1989)

Vali introduces her eel and frog and speaks about how the frog needs to be treated. [read more]

Australian attitudes in the 1970s (1973)

Daddy Cool band member Ross Hannaford talks about how both city and country Australians are restless and wanting change. [read more]

The Chinamen must go! (1928)

After several violent confrontations, John Davis (Bert Trawley) incites his fellow miners to run the Chinese miners out of the diggings. The frightened Chinese rush to the protection of the troopers, who fire off a cannon to disperse the crowd. [read more]

Designing for the law (2000)

The Commonwealth Law Courts in Melbourne, Australia were designed by the architect Paul Katsieris. As he walks from the outside to the inside of this building he explains the design elements. [read more]

‘You’re safe now’ (1980)

An injured Heinrich (Ross Thompson) collapses at the holiday house of Larry (Steve Bisley) and Carmel (Arna-Maria Winchester). Heinrich experiences nightmares of the incident at the WALDO nuclear facility. [read more]

‘Not the best, old chap’ (1963)

Pino (Francesco Pino) visits his son’s school to hear the headmaster deliver information and advice. For the headmaster the solution is ‘a woman in the house’. [read more]

The bush toy tradition (2008)

This clip showcases a number of ‘bush toys’ made by Johnny Young, depicting a rural lifestyle including horses and stockmen, a windmill, water tank, cattle yards and helicopter. The final scene in this clip shows aerial cattle mustering filmed from ... [read more]

‘I’d back her next season’ (1949)

Sam Curzon (Charles Tingwell) repays the money he stole from father WJ (Charles Randall) and mother Laura (Muriel Steinbeck). Surrounded by her family, June (Nonnie Peifer) attempts to walk for the first time since her accident. Hugh Duncan (James Workman) ... [read more]

Rescue on the road (2005)

Kristy (Kestie Morassi) has escaped from the camp. She has been tortured and beaten, but she runs, without shoes, until she finds the road. An old man stops to help her. While he fetches a blanket from the back of ... [read more]

‘Family and friends’ (1973)

Buddy Rand (Fred Cullen), on the run from the police, goes to his sister’s (Marie Redshaw) place but she says he can’t stay. Running out of options, Buddy visits his girlfriend Betty Breen (Bunny Gibson) at the pub before looking ... [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]

The SETI project (1994)

Mike (Zbych Trofimiuk) is dismayed to find that Nikki (Petra Jared) is more interested in listening to Shane (Che Broadbent) explain his SETI project, than listen to his new Jimi Hendrix CD. [read more]

Along the Murray River (1920)

A team of rowers pass under the Swan Hill drawbridge on the Murray River. A paddle-steamer takes passengers down the Murray River. Different angles from the steamer capture views of the Murray River and the surrounding landscape. In this clip ... [read more]

Ducks on the pond (1975)

A defiant Miss Dawson (Lisa Peers), the station owner’s daughter, claims her reward for keeping quiet about Foley’s unauthorised raid on kitchen supplies, when he stole some lemon essence. She wants to watch the shearers at work, but women are ... [read more]

The issue of conscription (1962)

In this excerpt from an interview with Dr Daniel Mannix, the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Dr Mannix describes the circumstances in which he advocated against conscription during the First World War. [read more]

Parade for the Inauguration (1901)

This clip shows part of the official parade for the Inauguration of the Commonwealth on 1 January 1901 as it passes through the temporary gate built especially for the occasion in Hyde Park, Sydney. [read more]

‘That’s not a dirty word’ (2001)

Evan (Samuel Johnson) and Alex (Claudia Karvan) play 'dirty word’ scrabble with a subtext. [read more]

Music for the people (2004)

Sammy Butcher talks about life after the Warumpi Band, settling down in Papunya and starting a recording studio where he teaches the young ones how to play music and perform. [read more]

Women walking along the beach (1932)

Three women walk along the shoreline of Blackmans Bay Beach in Tasmania. They then cartwheel across the sand. The same women are shown later on, wearing different clothes, walking through scrub along a fence line. They climb over the fence. [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]

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