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Australasian Gazette – Annual Christmas Treat (c1925)
This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1925 shows Christmas celebrations for children in the Victoria Barracks, Sydney including a live puppet show and Father Christmas handing out presents. [read more]
Christmas Crackers (1945)
In December 1945 Mrs Isabel Sprod awaits the return of her three sons and son-in-law from the war. Her daughter Kathleen and granddaughter Jill also prepare for the homecoming. This amateur film made by John Sprod re-enacts a reunion ... [read more]
Archibald Family: Family Scenes and Outings in Sydney (c1932)
This home movie produced by the Archibald family in approximately 1932, features a variety of scenes illustrating their family life. These include beach scenes, a young girl’s birthday party and shots from onboard a boat on Pittwater, Sydney. [read more]
Plains Empty (2005)
An enthralling drama about a young married woman who, left alone in the mining fields, encounters a ghost of the past. [read more]
Opening of the Prahran-Malvern Tramway (1910)
This silent historical footage filmed by Millard Johnson and William Gibson captures the opening of the Prahran-Malvern Tramway, Victoria, on 30 May 1910. [read more]
The Woman Suffers (1918)
The Woman Suffers is a complicated silent melodrama of revenge and sexual betrayal, only part of which survives. In the first two reels, which have been lost, a woman caught in an abusive marriage runs away with her infant son ... [read more]
The Kid Stakes (1927)
Fatty Finn (‘Pop’ Ordell) is the scruffy six-year-old leader of a gang of kids in the dockside suburb of Woolloomooloo in Sydney. Fatty enters his pet goat Hector in the annual goat races, but his rival Bruiser Murphy (Frank Boyd) ... [read more]
Doing Time for Patsy Cline (1997)
Ralph (Matt Day) leaves his parents’ property in western Queensland with his guitar and a ticket to Nashville, Tennessee. His plans to become a country singer take a detour when a flamboyant couple in a large black car stop to ... [read more]
Scales of Justice (1983)
This drama series presents an examination of police corruption from street level through to the highest levels of officialdom and into the corridors of political power. Act one explores how an idealistic young constable becomes embroiled in corruption and ends ... [read more]
Mimi (2002)
A short drama about a young Western art collector who gets more than she’s bargained for when she purchases Indigenous art pieces that include a Mimi statue and a painting of a barramundi. [read more]
Smithy (1946)
A young Australian pilot in the Royal Flying Corps is shot in the foot while flying over the Western Front in 1917. Charles Kingsford Smith (Ron Randell) finishes the war with a Military Cross and a burning desire to do ... [read more]
Cop Shop – Episode 485 (1983)
When a homeless man dies of natural causes in a laneway, it seems like an open-and-shut case. Henry Adam (Ted Ogden) was apparently penniless, leaving behind only a common-law wife, Faith Bloomfield (Elaine Lee). Then his nephew shows up. Law ... [read more]
Australia Post – Postpak Rap (1988)
This is an Australia Post television advertisement promoting the use of its own product, the Postpak. [read more]
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello (2005)
In this animated film, the aerial navigator Jasper Morello (voiced by Joel Edgerton), accompanied by the academy biologist Dr Claude Belgon (voiced by Helmut Bakaitis), sets out on a voyage aboard the airship Resolution to establish a line of beacons ... [read more]
The Saddle Club – Series 1 Episode 1 (2001)
Lisa Atwood’s (Lara Jean Marshall) first day at Pine Hollow Stables begins badly when a car driven by her mother (Marie-Louise Walker) nearly collides with Pine Hollow’s best students Stevie Lake (Sophie Bennett) and Carole Hanson (Keenan MacWilliam) and their ... [read more]
In the audience at Cannes (2006)
Margaret Pomeranz concludes her warm review of Ten Canoes with a reference to how warmly the film was received at Cannes. David Stratton was actually at Cannes and takes up the theme by describing what it felt like to be ... [read more]
National Treasures – Phar Lap’s Hide (2004)
In the 1930s, a New Zealand-born horse called Phar Lap won the hearts of Australians and became one of our most loved and enduring icons. Warren Brown visits Melbourne Museum where the legendary Phar Lap – or at least his ... [read more]
Bali Hi (c1971)
This is an amateur travelogue made by Alan Bresnahan and his wife during a trip to Bali in 1971. [read more]
Bridewealth for a Goddess (1999)
Bridewealth for a Goddess follows the preparation and performance of a sacred ritual by the Kawelka people, who live on their tribal land near Mount Hagen in the Wahgi Valley in Papua New Guinea. Ru Kundil, a ‘Big Man’, is ... [read more]
The Combination (2009)
Young Lebanese Australian John (George Basha) comes home from jail to live with his widowed mother (Doris Younane) and wild younger brother Charlie (Firass Dirani), who is still at school. Having learned his lesson the hard way, he struggles ... [read more]
