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Kids and bombs (2007)
Laith Stevens talks about the aspirations of the Laos people as we see a teacher in front of a class telling the kids not to collect iron to sell. Kids walking along in the bush look for scrap metal and ... [read more]
Central Square (1928)
From an elevated position above Central Square (now Railway Square) in Sydney, the camera films the bustle of the streets at rush hour where people transfer from trams to trains and suburban trams to take them out of the city. ... [read more]
‘Would you like to have a try?’ (2006)
David (David Collins) and Shane (Shane Dundas) demonstrate the use of an imaginary TV remote control with the help of a bunch of bananas. This is followed by the opening titles which end on a red door. The door opens ... [read more]
Towards a new age (1946)
The clip shows this Liberal Party cinema advertisement, for the 28 September 1946 federal election, in its entirety. The ad presents the post-Second World War period as potentially a time of great possibility for the Australian people. It argues that ... [read more]
Touring car champion (1970)
Engine trouble with Beechey’s car leads to the hard decision not to race in the final of the championship. As Beechey looks on from the sidelines, the final race at Symmons Plains is run on a wet track damp with ... [read more]
Shelter, food and clothing (1939)
Over a montage of slum housing in the city of Brisbane, a voice-over talks of the plight of the poor and ‘indecently housed’. A group of hungry men wait outside the Mission’s premises where they gratefully receive their food parcels. ... [read more]
Poetry (1980)
Three elderly women residents of the Kurmala Nursing Home, in Sydney, read poetry which they have written about their experiences of old age. [read more]
Cyclone Tracy (1974)
This excerpt of an ABC radio interview consists of a first-hand account from a survivor of Cyclone Tracy – ABC radio news journalist Mike Hayes. In it, Hayes speaks off-the-cuff to fellow journalist Bruce Grundy about the myriad ... [read more]
Home garden displays (1953)
Out of town visitors come to see the floral displays in private gardens across the city. Sweeping pans of the gardens and close ups of flowers show just some of the gardens on display and in competition. The ‘champion house ... [read more]
Australian wilderness (1980)
Bob Brown paddles along the tranquil final stretches of the Franklin River. This is as it must have looked even before the first Europeans arrived in Tasmania. [read more]
Blue Moon Café (1954)
This clip shows the Blue Moon Café in Canberra’s Sydney Building in the 1950s. It includes scenes inside the café at the confectionery counter, the milk bar, and the Greek owners (members of the Cassidy and Gerakiteys families) gathered outside ... [read more]
Rodeo, Mt St John (1934)
Members of the crowd at the rodeo watch from the stands, sit down to a meal and picnic on the grounds. A man drinking a glass of beer is intercut with rodeo footage played in reverse to suggest he is ... [read more]
‘No killing, no injuries, no mines’ (2004)
This clip is taken from the last few minutes of the film. Habiba is a victim of a landmine in Afghanistan who now has an artificial leg as a result. She speaks movingly about her wish for an end to ... [read more]
Melbourne city (1931)
This clip begins with a panoramic view from the Morehouse Tower of St Paul’s Cathedral looking south over the Yarra River to the Botanical Gardens and the War Memorial. It is followed by a tracking shot from one of the ... [read more]
You can be anything (1987)
Lilli (Judy Davis) takes Ally (Claudia Karvan) out for lunch. Overwhelmed when Ally talks about her father, Lilli cries in the toilet. [read more]
No time to waste (2007)
Fadi, the coach of his son’s Under 6 soccer team, holds a postmortem with the boys. Ahmed, one of the ICRA volunteers, collects the freshly printed ‘All Eyez on Youth’ posters and flyers and sets about distributing them. Back ... [read more]
What you need to know (1974)
This is one of the two television advertisements produced to facilitate the change to metric on Australian roads in July 1974. [read more]
Birth (1988)
This is an Australia Post television commercial (TVC) promoting the Lettergram service as a replacement for the congratulatory telegram, traditionally sent on the birth of a child. [read more]
Interviews (1983)
The interviews with 'experts’ are interrupted by various cinematic devices – sound, graphic questions crawling across the bottom of the screen and the actual image changing optically until the talking head has been removed completely. [read more]
Jesus’s belly button (2005)
The artists talk about the response to the paintings on the Santa Teresa church wall. We see an Aboriginal interpretation of biblical characters such as Jesus and Moses. [read more]
