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A child is lost (1987)

A child is missing and the family frantically search the streets of Surry Hills to find her. By the time the child is found and returned to her mother (Anna Hruby) and father (Shane Connor) we’ve been introduced to all ... [read more]

Snow wombat (1982)

A wombat forages in the snow of the Mt Kosciuszko National Park. The marsupial finds grasses and roots to eat. [read more]

Not your usual Chinese restaurant (2004)

This restaurant in Ballina, NSW, is not your usual country town Chinese restaurant with its ubiquitous sweet and sour, but a Chinese restaurant that features its owners’ locally grown lotus, a member of the waterlily family. [read more]

Bobby and Pikey make history (1983)

Tommy Woodcock (Tom Burlinson) runs Phar Lap onto the track at Flemington for the 1930 Melbourne Cup. The horse has been kept in hiding after an attempt on his life; the race has been delayed 15 minutes waiting for the ... [read more]

One wave, one surfer (1973)

After a great day surfing with his friend Richie West, George Greenough goes back to work on his boat, a 37-foot hull on which he is building his own cabin. He explains his philosophy of surfing, and his need for ... [read more]

One more attempt (1949)

On board HMAS Wyatt Earp, the crew attach floats to the Kingfisher aircraft, ready for flight, but the weather is too bad. The pack ice prevents the ship approaching the Antarctic coast, so the captain heads for the Balleny ... [read more]

Better than watching (2005)

A map shows the path of the Finke Desert Race, starting in Alice Springs to the community of Finke 229 kilometres away. The racers stop for the night, then do the return ride the next day. Bernard Singer, Jamie Nyaningu ... [read more]

‘My babies’ (2004)

Toma is both passionate about his eggplants and keen to show off his invention, an ingenious machine which helps with the picking. His wife works along side and afterwards it’s home to the barbie where both of them explain one ... [read more]

Born in Bendigo (1969)

The Simms are a young couple who’ve come to Melbourne from the bush to find a better life. They barely manage because Mrs Simms has a chronic illness that takes up nearly all her husband’s hard-earned wage. [read more]

Lightning strikes (1983)

Mr Telford (Martin Vaughan) arrives at the stables with his son Cappy (Steven Bannister). Telford tells Tommy the strapper (Tom Burlinson) to take Phar Lap for his morning workout and work him hard. On the training track, other trainers joke ... [read more]

‘Where cat from?’ (1993)

Bubby (Nicholas Hope) dresses up like his mother and ‘plays’ with the cat, which he has tied to the chair. He calls the cat ‘Bubby’ and speaks to it with the same phrases his mother (Claire Benito) uses on him. ... [read more]

Big head (2005)

Clinton (Michael Tuahine) and Crystal (Kylie Farmer) are relaxing on the balcony of Clinton’s apartment. Crystal calls Clinton a big head and a coconut, accusing him of being a 'big notin’ sellout’. [read more]

‘Geez I’d love a Passiona’ (1979)

Bill (John Jarratt) is bored and thirsty on patrol, until the Australians discover a Viet Cong bush camp. They lay in wait for the enemy’s return. [read more]

Don Bradman in England (1930)

Don Bradman is interviewed in 1930 while on tour in England. It is an informal interview, with Bradman talking casually as he puts on his cricket jumper and jacket. Bradman discusses the dull light in England, his cricket ambitions, Jack ... [read more]

Harbour view and rabbit stew (1982)

Angus (Ross O’Donovan), 14-year-old wanna be rock star manager with blue hair, tries to enlist interest in his songs from a local band, The Wombats. At home later, his nana (Pat Evison) rinses out the blue dye as boarder Mrs ... [read more]

Vlad writes letters from space (1999)

Vlad the chimp astronaut walks across the sterile interior of his spacecraft. In his darkened room, he writes another letter home, which he files in a drawer with other, unsent letters. Vlad sits at a console, dwarfed by the letters ... [read more]

Building a motor body (1925)

Large power presses stamp the panels for the car bodies. As the press is lifted, one man removes the panel and another places a flat sheet into the machine. A worker in goggles welds the panels together. The finished sections ... [read more]

‘As sober as a judge’ (1990)

The second round continues as Kelly takes control of the wheel for a puzzle which, when solved, will reveal a common phrase. Host John Burgess gives a running commentary as Kelly spins the wheel. Puzzle solved, Kelly now has prize ... [read more]

San Francisco opens its golden gate to UNCIO (1945)

This is a collection of mute colour and black-and-white footage shot by members of the Australian delegation to the 1945 UNCIO Conference in San Francisco, and shot in Hawaii during the delegates’ stopover on the way home. [read more]

Recollection of childhood (1993)

Three Jewish comedians, Deb Filler from New Zealand, Sandy Gutman (Austen Tayshus) from Melbourne and American Moshe Waldoks, talk about their childhoods as children of Holocaust survivors. [read more]

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