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The knight rescues the damsel (2009)
John (George Basha) notices a pretty white girl (Claire Bowen) being robbed by two youths – one of them apparently Asian Australian – and intervenes on her behalf. They exchange names – she tells him her name is Sydney – ... [read more]
Getting the shots (1982)
Billy Kwan (Linda Hunt) and Guy Hamilton (Mel Gibson) film a communist youth demonstration in the streets of Jakarta. As the demonstration gets out of hand, the demonstrators turn on Billy, trying to stop him filming. Hamilton is fearless in ... [read more]
Ask the Leyland Brothers – Episode 23 (1976)
In Ask the Leyland Brothers, adventurers Mike and Mal Leyland travel to different parts of Australia to make short documentary segments. Every story is a response to letters from viewers asking the Leyland Brothers to cover a person, place or ... [read more]
The circus arrives (1949)
Once the circus train has arrived, the task of unloading begins. The elephants and ponies are guided out of the carriages. The elephants are then shown pulling the poles for the big top from the carriages. Children watch as the ... [read more]
Tabaluga – The Last One of His Kind (1997)
Born at a time when he is needed most, the tiny, naïve but brave Tabaluga is the last dragon on earth. A delightful hero, Tabaluga uses courage and kindness, combined with his growing prowess at fire-breathing and flying, to outsmart ... [read more]
Kangaroo embryo (1965)
This clip shows a kangaroo external embryo suckling in its mother’s pouch in the early stages of its development. The pouch opening is held open to allow the camera to film in close-up as the voice-over explains how the four-month-old ... [read more]
Interrogation (1997)
Jane Halifax (Rebecca Gibney) interviews a suspect. Later, she undergoes another kind of interrogation at the hands of her analyst Marion Walters (Cathering Wilkin). [read more]
The Cheaters (sound version) (1931)
Bill Marsh (Arthur Greenaway) serves a 20-year prison sentence for embezzling from businessman John Travers (John Faulkner). On his release Marsh forms a criminal organisation whose members include his daughter Paula Marsh (Isabel McDonagh billed as 'Marie Lorraine’), and whose ... [read more]
Sacred site (1991)
This clip introduces the Jawoyn peoples attending and giving evidence at the government inquiry into mining at Coronation Hill. [read more]
A tornado hits (2007)
Lee Pearson (Radha Mitchell) warns George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) of a tornado coming towards them across the desert. He and some of the boys are changing a tyre on one of the trucks they have borrowed for the final ... [read more]
Australasian Gazette – Highlights of the Cricket Series England vs Australia (1933)
This Australasian Gazette newsreel shows highlights of the 1932–1933 England versus Australia cricket series. It starts with footage of the packed stadium and shows clips of the first Test in Sydney. It is black-and-white and silent. [read more]
‘The human factor’ (2001)
At the skyscraping headquarters of Centabank in Melbourne, chief executive officer Simon O’Reilly (Anthony LaPaglia) gets a grilling from the board chairman (Robert van Mackelenberg). He gives Simon three months to improve his forecasts for profit and growth. In his ... [read more]
‘Mission of mercy’ (1941)
In a dramatic re-enactment, set on a remote homestead in Australia’s outback, a station worker is suffering an attack of acute appendicitis. A member of the homestead radios for help to a hospital hundreds of kilometres away at the base ... [read more]
Opening up the west (1963)
Graphics, paintings and voice-over tell the story of why it took 30 years for the settlers of New South Wales to cross the Blue Mountains and gain access to the fabulous pasture lands beyond. It needed a true bushman, one ... [read more]
Hogg sees a massacre (2007)
George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is typing in a war-torn building. Just as he writes ‘The city is quiet’ he hears activity in the street. He goes to the window and sees Japanese troops herding Chinese civilians into a park ... [read more]
Official Opening of Canberra by His Royal Highness the Duke of York (1927)
The Duke of York, who later became King George VI, officially opens Old Parliament House, Canberra on 19 May 1927. Prime Minister Stanley Melbourne Bruce is also present and Dame Nellie Melba sings the national anthem God Save the King. [read more]
National Treasures – ‘The Magic Pudding’ Illustrations (2004)
Warren Brown takes a look at Norman Lindsay’s original illustrations for the much-loved children’s book The Magic Pudding at the State Library of New South Wales. [read more]
The lost children (1954)
Two young sisters, Sally and Roberta, have left their home for the Birdsville Track to get help for their mother. They have their dog, a bottle of water, and a wheeled cart in tow. The youngest picks up her recorder ... [read more]
Phar Lap (1983)
The great racehorse Phar Lap dies in the arms of his strapper, Tommy Woodcock (Tom Burlinson), in Agua Caliente, Mexico, in 1932. Australia mourns his loss, amid suspicions of foul play. Five years earlier, a scrawny colt with facial warts ... [read more]
