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A trip to Kundjabe (2001)
The family travel to Kundjabe to fish. The women bait the hooks with worms, while they talk about the different types of food available to them. There is a great familiarity with how the family relate to this place. [read more]
Wrap me up with my stockwhip and blanket (1936)
'Wrap Me Up With My Stockwhip and Blanket’ was recorded by Tex Morton in August 1936 for Regal Zonophone at EMI Studios in Sydney. Morton sings and plays guitar on this recording of the song. The song is a ... [read more]
Responsible government (1949)
The clip shows this Liberal Party cinema advertisement, for the 10 December 1949 federal election, in its entirety. The ad is a no-holds-barred attack on the Chifley government as ‘a Canberra dictatorship’ and ‘irresponsible socialists’. It presents the Liberal Party ... [read more]
Swinger (1995)
The short film Swinger can be viewed here in its entirety. A camera scans around an open-plan apartment as swing music plays on the radio. The phone rings repeatedly and a series of messages are left on an answering machine, ... [read more]
Operating theatre, laboratory and x-ray (1928)
A fixed camera films the inside of an operating theatre in the Henry Meeks Pavilion of the hospital; a slow pan shows medical staff at work in the laboratory; another pan reveals a 'Violet Ray Atelier’ set up in a ... [read more]
It takes all kinds (2007)
Esther Blueburger (Danielle Catanzariti) is now attending Sunni’s (Keisha Castle-Hughes) school. The freedom she has there is very different to the regimented nature of her old private school. Sunni shows her around, giving the audience a visual run-through of the ... [read more]
Aboriginal women in leadership (1988)
Laurel Winder talks about Gloria Brennan’s contribution to Aboriginal women’s rights. The women talk about the different treatment of Aboriginal men and Aboriginal women who take on roles of leadership to initiate change. [read more]
‘Elephants’ (1979)
Neil Davis talks about working with the South Vietnamese army. He recalls that they were involved in fighting much more than the American forces, and suffered correspondingly higher casualties. The Americans were referred to as 'elephants’ because of their extensive ... [read more]
Music (2003)
Kathy Mills talks about her children and the closeness of her family and the role music plays in it. Allyson Mills talks about how her father called their attention to different sounds and rhythms. [read more]
Fitzpatrick incident at Mrs Kelly’s homestead (1906)
This fragment from The Story of the Kelly Gang shows Constable Fitzpatrick visiting the homestead of Kate Kelly. Fitzpatrick attempts to kiss Kate Kelly and in the scuffle Ned Kelly shoots Fitzpatrick in the wrist. As the Kelly gang escape ... [read more]
About nomads (1996)
Robyn Davidson explains how she came to be attached for nearly two years, without speaking a common language, to one of the last bands of nomadic people roaming India as they have done for millennia. [read more]
Bondi Surf Carnival (1929)
This clip documents the spectacle of a large surf carnival on Bondi Beach in approximately 1929. The surf clubs march on the sand and lifesavers give a resuscitation demonstration. [read more]
Lord Denman, governor-general (1913)
This clip shows the governor-general Lord Thomas Denman arriving at the naming ceremony of Canberra. A royal salute is fired before Lord Denman lays a foundation stone. [read more]
Cheap blonde (1998)
You can watch Cheap Blonde here in its entirety. This experimental film rearranges the same sentence 22 times: ‘A famous filmmaker said: “Cinema is the history of men filming women”’, while deconstructing the video image of a woman bathing in ... [read more]
Her gracious majesty (1977)
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh visit their loyal subjects in Victoria in 1977. We see them disembark from their plane to be greeted by dignitaries, and a crowd of children waving flags. ... [read more]
‘I can see lawnmowers’ (1985)
In the year 1770, Captain James Cook (Rob Sitch) and Joseph Banks (Michael Veitch) approach Australia on their ship. They imagine the future of the country as they decide whether to land. [read more]
‘A great partnership’ (1942)
A family sits around the breakfast table after son Ted has finished his night shift at the munitions factory. His mother tells him how proud she is of both her sons – one in the armed forces fighting overseas on ... [read more]
Different worlds (1986)
The instructor of the self-actualisation course (William Zappa) is sprouting his New Age speak with the two private detectives (Terry Bader and Richard Healy) a captive audience. Meanwhile the thoroughly dependable Girl Friday (Debra Lawrence) gets to know the migrant ... [read more]
Top End paradise (2000)
The three boys are halfway to Darwin when they come upon Aboriginal paintings in a cliff cave. The camera travels up over the extraordinary landscape as the boys revel in their surroundings. They lower themselves down a cliff to a ... [read more]
