1157 results prev 1 2 ... 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 ... 57 58 next
‘What makes Australians tough’ (1933)
Mary Townleigh (Shirley Dale) has been found after being briefly lost in the bush. The Hayseeds open their home, and Dad Hayseed (Cecil Kellaway) suggests they stay until she is better. Mr Townleigh (Kenneth Brampton) doesn’t wish to be any ... [read more]
‘I just don’t talk to cops’ (1998)
Opening titles are followed by a scene set in the police station as Drazic (Callan Mulvey) is interrogated by Detective Sergeant Steel (John McNeill) and Constable Todd Gillespie (Dominic Purcell). The fact that Todd used to go out with Drazic’s ... [read more]
‘Things could get quite interesting’ (2002)
The Out There opening titles, accompanied by title track 'Doing What I Do’, introduces the main characters. The offbeat Miller (Richard Wilson), who by his own admission is ‘not what you call popular’, gives a direct-to-camera personal take on newcomers ... [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]
Teaser and title sequence (1965)
In this teaser, leading in to Homicide’s opening title sequence, convict Edgar Thompson (Roy Alexander) is on the run after escaping from the prison farm at Beechworth. He heads for a shack in the countryside, not realising that a man ... [read more]
Aircraft workshop (1926)
Men work on various parts of planes inside an open hanger at an airfield. Men file and chip away at pieces of timber. Another man inspects a plane propeller which is then shown being attached to the front of a ... [read more]
The Olympic rings (1998)
Gina Riley and Brian Dawe are immersed in the logistics of the plan for the Opening Ceremony that has been put forward by Mrs Dundas (Linda Hagger) and her friend Joyce (Fahey Younger), apparently having completely forgotten that the contract ... [read more]
The long paddock (1981)
Jack must keep moving this mob of sheep over the ‘long paddock’, as the open road is called, because the owner of the flock is still waiting for rain that refuses to come. The long paddock is part of Australian ... [read more]
The white ‘invaders’ rule instead (1928)
The Duke of York opens the new Parliament House in Canberra on 9 May 1927, before assembled dignitaries. His speech recalls the great men who worked to federate Australia and the ‘gallant men and women who laid down their lives ... [read more]
The breakthrough (1989)
Sergeant Dillon, movingly played by himself, tells the President of the Commission of Inquiry (Nick Tate) how he discovered a bottle of Chivas Regal whisky in his locker, to which he had the only key. He took the bottle home ... [read more]
Where does the problem start? (1992)
Keating answers this rhetorical question by outlining the abuses that have occurred since the time of colonisation to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia. He cites a failure of imagination on the part of settler colonial society ... [read more]
‘Take time by the forelock’ (1948)
This clip shows the first two minutes of the travelogue Skyway Express. It was produced in the late 1940s for exhibition in the cinema. It shows the start of a passenger plane journey to London. The clip covers the journey ... [read more]
Surfers Paradise (1960)
A Surfers Paradise title card opens this segment which includes shots of typical Queensland holiday units, hotels and motels, and swimming pools. The main streets are filled with billboards and signs, motels, cafes and pubs. The ‘Beachcomber’ nightclub is shown ... [read more]
Australia’s first astronaut (1960)
An animation shows Rocket’s journey from moon to earth and then, in studio, his arrival in a cloud of dust. Unfortunately Miss Pat (Patricia Lovell) opens Rocket, who is ‘not speaking’, to discover Mr Squiggle is not inside. Doormat arrives ... [read more]
‘Mind the curve’ (1988)
In 1885 Melbourne introduced the cable tram for citizens to commute. The clip includes shots of children and adults in and on horse-drawn vehicles, bicycles and a steam-hauled train. We also shots of a steam tram in Sydney. There are ... [read more]
The New Holden FE (1956)
This clip shows the whole advertisement minus the opening and closing titles. A curtain parts to reveal the new model Holden FE on display on a turntable in a car showroom. As the car spins around, a male voice-over lists ... [read more]
A seaplane circles a continent (1924)
This silent newsreel shows the triumphant arrival of aviators Wing Commander SJ Goble and Officer IE McIntyre at St Kilda, Melbourne, in their RAAF Fairey 111D seaplane after completing the first aerial circumnavigation of Australia in 1924. The clip ... [read more]
Hoyts talking pictures roadshow (1929)
An intertitle invites viewers to 'see for a brief moment’ the sound equipment for talking pictures. Then a Hoyts Talking Pictures Roadshow sound unit truck is seen coming down the street. Two uniformed men open the back doors and begin ... [read more]
‘Where’s my piano?’ (1987)
The Kaboodle opening titles run into the first story: ‘Molly Makes Music’. While Molly (voiced by Cara Schwarz) is out for the day, removalists arrive at her house. She returns to find furniture missing and her mother (voiced by Julia ... [read more]
Welcome to Bellbird (1970)
These are the opening titles and theme music that went into Australian homes every night for ten years, just before the ABC’s seven o’clock news. In the scene that follows, Lori Chandler (Elspeth Ballantyne) has returned to Bellbird on holiday ... [read more]
