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40,000 Years of Dreaming: A Century of Australian Cinema (1996)
George Miller presents a personal view of the historical and cultural influences that have shaped the development of Australian cinema since its beginning in 1896. [read more]
The Golden West (1940)
This travelogue, made by magician Will Alma, features the scenery of Perth and parts of Western Australia. The film is silent with intertitles. [read more]
Mine moving in (2007)
A truck with equipment rolls through a quiet village, followed by more trucks stirring up the dust. A villager quarrels with mine workers about who’s benefiting from the mine. A truck with very wide load crashes through on the narrow ... [read more]
Bananas in Pyjamas – Banana Breakfast (1999)
In this story, narrated by Karina Kelly, Bananas in Pyjamas B1 (Ken Radley) and B2 (Nicholas Opolski) decide to make a surprise breakfast for the Teddies, Morgan (Jeremy Scrivener), Amy (Mary-Ann Henshaw) and Lulu (Taylor Owynns). When Rat in a ... [read more]
‘Give it a go’ (1980)
Jean Paget (Helen Morse) tells solicitor Noel Strachan (Gordon Jackson) of her first meeting with Joe Harmon (Bryan Brown) while on an enforced trek across Malaya with a group of fellow Englishwomen and their children. Among others in the flashback ... [read more]
Chifley at the helm (1946)
The clip shows this ALP cinema advertisement, for the 28 September 1946 federal election, in its entirety. [read more]
Addressing the housing problem (1957)
People in inner-city Sydney live in garages and temporary dwellings in backyards, unable to complete building their homes. The narration, spoken by Leonard Teale, lists reasons why proper housing is not affordable: lack of finance, insufficient loans for home building, ... [read more]
‘You’ve got yourself a man’ (1970)
This clip shows three different ads from the late 1960s or early 1970s which feature the tagline 'when you get Roses, you’ve got yourself a man’. In the first ad, two young women sit in a train carriage. One (played ... [read more]
Lift Off – That’s Not Fair – Part A (1992)
This is Part A of the episode, That’s Not Fair, following the Lift Off format that mixes live action, animation, puppetry, music, documentary and fantasy. The main storyline is about the Lift Off kids, interspersed with the other elements. Nipper ... [read more]
Women of the Sun (1982)
This four-part television drama series follows the lives of four generations of Aboriginal women. Episode one, Alinta: The Flame, depicts an Aboriginal family clan in 1824 living peacefully by the ocean, hunting, fishing and gathering foods. Alinta (Naykakan Munung) is ... [read more]
Faireez – A Chilling Plot (2005)
Quincy Questholler, Faireezia’s flying security guard, panics again! This time the weather has gone mad in sunny Faireezia, and it is snowing. Of course it is Jumpalina, the big-footed baddy in her floating castle, up to her tricks again. Wise ... [read more]
Arriving at the Migrant Reception Centre (1962)
A group of migrants arrive by bus at the Bonegilla Migrant Reception Centre. As they disembark and collect their luggage, a female voice-over explains they have come from many countries across Europe. The centre functions as a temporary place for ... [read more]
The Battle for Byron (1996)
The documentary looks at the history of Byron Bay, a seaside town in Northern NSW. Waves of development have influenced the culture of the town. The first settlers cut down the thousand-year-old cedar trees calling them 'red gold’. When ... [read more]
Patrol Boat – Never Under the White Ensign (1979)
Patrol Boat is a television drama about the crew of a navy patrol boat, whose job it is to guard Australia’s coastal waters. In this episode Jacki Weaver guest stars as journalist Jenny Smith who visits HMAS Ambush to ... [read more]
Strangers in Paradise (1989)
Set on the eve of Australia’s bicentennial celebrations, this observational documentary looks at Australian (Indigenous and non-Indigenous) culture through the eyes of a group of American and British tourists on a ‘Dreamtime’ bus tour around the country. The tourists’ expectations, ... [read more]
Australia Post – Security (1989)
This program, produced for in-house training use, outlines the operations of Australia Post’s Security and Investigation Service and alerts personnel to the range of potential mail crime. [read more]
Cartoons of the Moment – The Kaiser War (c1918)
Cartoons of the Moment was an animated segment by Harry Julius that appeared in wartime editions of the Australasian Gazette newsreel. This edition comments on events at the end of the First World War in Germany and on Australia’s wartime ... [read more]
Backround bells (1966)
The bells can be heard at the beginning of the compositional arc in section 3: Prophecy. They ring out against the backdrop of the reader speaking text from The Dead Sea Scrolls. [read more]
Making a warehouse in the salt mines (1943)
This clip from a colour home movie filmed by Ernest Gourlay in approximately 1951 shows men constructing a hanger or warehouse with a vaulted roof. It shows men bolting together and erecting the trusses. This is followed by panning shots ... [read more]
‘A hard God’ (1980)
In constant pain, Dan (Graham Rouse) suspects that he is dying. As he prepares to meet his maker he asks his wife Aggie (Dawn Lake) what she thinks about God, confiding in her his own doubts. [read more]
