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Tubular ecstasy (1973)
Echoes is a 23-minute film within the film, composed entirely of George Greenough’s footage from inside the curl of the wave – the legendary 'green room’. The camera, with specially designed wide-angle lens, was usually mounted on his back, or ... [read more]
‘No ordinary girl’ (2007)
The opening titles introduce Rikki Chadwick (Cariba Heine), Emma Gilber (Claire Holt) and Cleo Seroti (Phoebe Tonkin) and the main premise of the series, as the friends jump into the water and transform into mermaids. Lewis McCartney (Angus McLaren), teenage ... [read more]
Introducing Mavis Bramston (1964)
A glimpse of the British performer’s ‘audition tape’ shows why Mavis Bramston (Noeline Brown) will not be the star of The Mavis Bramston Show after all. [read more]
Friday in Brisbane (1967)
The clip shows Air Vice-Marshall Ky’s visit to Canungra Jungle Training Centre, and Mme Ky’s visit to the Queensland headquarters of the Red Cross. [read more]
Eye injuries by landmines (1992)
Fred Hollows, eye surgeon, examines patients suffering from the after effects of exploding landmines in Eritrea. He comments on the ethics of landmines. [read more]
Delegates 1 (1928)
This clip begins with a pan across the delegates to the Victorian Labor Party’s 1928 Easter conference, standing outside Melbourne Trades Hall, and continues with individual shots of key Labor personalities of the time. [read more]
Chequebook journalism (1993)
Current affairs presenter and journalist Mike Willesee comments on the ethics of paying for stories. The editor of the Australian Women’s Weekly, Nene King, has no ethical issues with chequebook journalism. Editor of the National Enquirer, Grant Vandenberg, says almost ... [read more]
Thursday Island, Torres Strait (1925)
Cast members from the feature film The Hound of the Deep (1926) are driven around Thursday Island. The Federal Hotel is filmed from its exterior as well as from the veranda. A westward viewpoint from Milman Hill is seen. A ... [read more]
Ocean Girl’s mysterious past (1995)
Jason (David Hoflin), Brett (Jeffrey Walker) and the kids from Orca find a spaceship buried beneath the sand in the badlands on Neri’s (Marzena Godecki) tropical island. Neri finds a way into the spaceship under the water, and she and ... [read more]
Third time lucky (1984)
The South Australian explorer John McDouall Stuart (Clive Marshall) had learnt his skills as a bushman from the great explorer Sturt. What he learnt from his mentor was to travel light, using horses not drays and moving fast over the ... [read more]
Ord Noah revisited (1976)
Harry Butler has come back to north-east Western Australia, to Lake Argyle, made from the damming of the Ord River. Five years before, he was part of the team called 'Ord Noah’, brought in to save native fauna from the ... [read more]
Non refundable (2002)
Catherine (Sophie Lee) is telling her friend about her investments. She goes to get the pieces from out of the cupboard. The painting of the barramundi is now a merely skeleton of its former self. Somehow the rest of the ... [read more]
Greetings from Gamma (1988)
In the early morning, Peter (Clayton Williamson) and his mother Connie (Lynette Curran) are collecting shells on the beach when Peter first encounters the strange apparition of a young boy (Aaron Ferguson) calling to him. Back at their caravan park ... [read more]
Freshwater crocodiles (1933)
This clip shows freshwater crocodiles on a riverbank in Australia’s tropical north. A man carrying a rifle crawls along on his stomach to hunt the sleeping reptiles. On seeing him, the crocodiles head for the nearby lagoon but not before ... [read more]
Beech trees (1983)
The Antarctic beech trees grow to 50 metres and lives for up to 1,000 years in the cool temperate rainforest. As children we learn to fear forests as the home of witches and wolves. But this forest is full of ... [read more]
Little Cat (1998)
Chinese artist Huang Miaozi recalls moving to Shanghai in 1932, where he found work as a calligrapher and joined the Cartoonists Club. The Nationalists were in power and being challenged by the Communists. In Shanghai, Huang was given his nickname ... [read more]
Codenamed Marcoo (1956)
The explosion of Marcoo, one of the four nuclear fission bombs tested at Maralinga between September and October 1956. [read more]
Beautiful Melbourne? (1947)
This silent, black-and-white clip paints a harsh picture of life for a family living in a slum area of Melbourne, Victoria, in the 1940s. The dilapidated housing is shelter for a family with many children living in a very small ... [read more]
Prejudice – alive and well (2003)
Tony Hewson is the Human Resources Manager at the abattoir in Young, NSW. He says that the Hazara refugees from Afghanistan are good workers. He says labour is hard to get in a boom town like Young and he ... [read more]
