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Gallipoli boat (2004)
A small lifeboat, retrieved from the shores of Gallipoli, is a direct link to the first Anzacs and the day that helped forge Australia’s identity. [read more]
Tubular ecstasy (1973)
Echoes is a 23-minute film within the film, composed entirely of George Greenough’s footage from inside the curl of the wave – the legendary 'green room’. The camera, with specially designed wide-angle lens, was usually mounted on his back, or ... [read more]
Eye injuries by landmines (1992)
Fred Hollows, eye surgeon, examines patients suffering from the after effects of exploding landmines in Eritrea. He comments on the ethics of landmines. [read more]
‘No ordinary girl’ (2007)
The opening titles introduce Rikki Chadwick (Cariba Heine), Emma Gilber (Claire Holt) and Cleo Seroti (Phoebe Tonkin) and the main premise of the series, as the friends jump into the water and transform into mermaids. Lewis McCartney (Angus McLaren), teenage ... [read more]
Delegates 1 (1928)
This clip begins with a pan across the delegates to the Victorian Labor Party’s 1928 Easter conference, standing outside Melbourne Trades Hall, and continues with individual shots of key Labor personalities of the time. [read more]
Introducing Mavis Bramston (1964)
A glimpse of the British performer’s ‘audition tape’ shows why Mavis Bramston (Noeline Brown) will not be the star of The Mavis Bramston Show after all. [read more]
Friday in Brisbane (1967)
The clip shows Air Vice-Marshall Ky’s visit to Canungra Jungle Training Centre, and Mme Ky’s visit to the Queensland headquarters of the Red Cross. [read more]
Into battle (1964)
Damien Parer’s first taste of battle was with the British infantry in the Middle East. He quickly learned that if he wanted to get the shots that best showed men in action, then he needed to be up there on ... [read more]
Tough love (2011)
Released from prison the day before, Karen (Shai Pittman) wakes up in a motel room to the sound of the cleaners at the door. Feeling sick from the night before, Karen quickly dresses and lets them into the room. As ... [read more]
Chequebook journalism (1993)
Current affairs presenter and journalist Mike Willesee comments on the ethics of paying for stories. The editor of the Australian Women’s Weekly, Nene King, has no ethical issues with chequebook journalism. Editor of the National Enquirer, Grant Vandenberg, says almost ... [read more]
Thursday Island, Torres Strait (1925)
Cast members from the feature film The Hound of the Deep (1926) are driven around Thursday Island. The Federal Hotel is filmed from its exterior as well as from the veranda. A westward viewpoint from Milman Hill is seen. A ... [read more]
Ocean Girl’s mysterious past (1995)
Jason (David Hoflin), Brett (Jeffrey Walker) and the kids from Orca find a spaceship buried beneath the sand in the badlands on Neri’s (Marzena Godecki) tropical island. Neri finds a way into the spaceship under the water, and she and ... [read more]
Third time lucky (1984)
The South Australian explorer John McDouall Stuart (Clive Marshall) had learnt his skills as a bushman from the great explorer Sturt. What he learnt from his mentor was to travel light, using horses not drays and moving fast over the ... [read more]
Ord Noah revisited (1976)
Harry Butler has come back to north-east Western Australia, to Lake Argyle, made from the damming of the Ord River. Five years before, he was part of the team called 'Ord Noah’, brought in to save native fauna from the ... [read more]
Greetings from Gamma (1988)
In the early morning, Peter (Clayton Williamson) and his mother Connie (Lynette Curran) are collecting shells on the beach when Peter first encounters the strange apparition of a young boy (Aaron Ferguson) calling to him. Back at their caravan park ... [read more]
Non refundable (2002)
Catherine (Sophie Lee) is telling her friend about her investments. She goes to get the pieces from out of the cupboard. The painting of the barramundi is now a merely skeleton of its former self. Somehow the rest of the ... [read more]
Beech trees (1983)
The Antarctic beech trees grow to 50 metres and lives for up to 1,000 years in the cool temperate rainforest. As children we learn to fear forests as the home of witches and wolves. But this forest is full of ... [read more]
Little Cat (1998)
Chinese artist Huang Miaozi recalls moving to Shanghai in 1932, where he found work as a calligrapher and joined the Cartoonists Club. The Nationalists were in power and being challenged by the Communists. In Shanghai, Huang was given his nickname ... [read more]
Freshwater crocodiles (1933)
This clip shows freshwater crocodiles on a riverbank in Australia’s tropical north. A man carrying a rifle crawls along on his stomach to hunt the sleeping reptiles. On seeing him, the crocodiles head for the nearby lagoon but not before ... [read more]
