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‘Why was I adopted?’ (1985)
Le explains to Lindy how she came to be adopted – he was captured by Viet Cong, their village was bombed and her mother was trying to walk to Saigon with all the children and no food. She gave baby ... [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]
Mish (1997)
A long dirt road stretches ahead. A watch is held up. Lena (Jamilla Frail) is walking ahead of Vaughn (Luke Carroll). Vaughn on crutches wants to stop because it hurts. Lena doesn’t want to stop. Vaughn asks Lena what she ... [read more]
‘Something amazing has happened’ (1999)
Ruth (Kate Winslet) and her friend, Radhi (Genevieve Lemon), meet Ruth’s mother, Miriam (Julie Hamiton), in a Delhi restaurant. Ruth tells her mother she has found what she is looking for in India. Mum tells Ruth that her father is ... [read more]
Skin (2005)
The old women sit in the sand, the younger women next to them. The old women draw the skin system – or the lores of marriage – in the sand. The younger women are being taught the right skin groups ... [read more]
Growing up with theatre (1997)
Wole Soyinka grew up with the traditional theatre of Nigeria. He became attracted to creating theatre in both the African and British traditions, although he insists he didn’t set out to blend the two. His own work is a product ... [read more]
By the river (2001)
The Bordoh clan travel by tractor to the river. Over footage of the family going to the river, swimming and fishing, Diliyang introduces us to his family and country, and talks about the value of the tractor to the community. [read more]
Fort Denison early history (1939)
This clip covers the early history of Fort Denison, from its initial construction in the 1840s as a defence against a feared invasion, to its completion in 1857, and its manning by Royal Artillery men from England during the 1860s. ... [read more]
ANZAC Day Promotion (1916)
This ANZAC Day cinema advertisement from approximately 1915 begins with a re-enactment of Australian soldiers in trenches under fire wearing gas masks and ends with an intertitle that says ‘A nation’s manhood is straining at its task of carving ... [read more]
‘New York, without the intellect’ (1988)
After meeting with movie producer Elaine Ross (Ruth Cracknell), scriptwriter Colin Rogers (John Hargreaves) and his wife Kate (Robyn Nevin) attend their first film industry party in Sydney. At the party Colin meets aspiring writer Helen Davey (Nicole Kidman). [read more]
Family land (2005)
Gordan Syron and Elaine Pelot-Kitchener are on a boat. Gordon is showing Elaine his homeland (or the land where his family is from, often referred to as country by Indigenous people). Gordon and Elaine talk about the man Gordon killed ... [read more]
Coruba Jamaican rum (1979)
Opening on a Jamaican drummer, the camera sweeps to the sky and follows a giant bird carrying the product, a bottle of Coruba Jamaican Rum. We see a beautiful island and its playground attractions: gliding, skiing, palm-fringed beaches, musicians, bikini-clad ... [read more]
Then came happiness (1931)
Taking a narrative form, this advertisement from 1931 begins with Helen hanging out the clothes. Her daughter, Joan, brings her the mail and she opens an invitation to a bridge night which happens to be on the same night as ... [read more]
Australasian Gazette – Some Sunday Morning (c1920)
This Australasian Gazette newsreel from the 1920s shows a scene from 'some Sunday morning’ at St Kilda Beach, Melbourne. [read more]
Modes of transport and Victoria Downs (1940)
Donkey teams in the North are shown pulling large wagons of supplies along dusty tracks. The camel team of an Indian hawker near Wave Hill brings supplies to people of the outback to whom ‘shops are not available’. The ... [read more]
General Motors Holden – Australia’s Ideal Family Car (c1957)
This black-and-white television advertisement presents the early model Holden sedan as Australia’s 'ideal family car’. It highlights the car’s new features and shows it undergoing steering tests on the Holden Lang Lang proving ground outside Melbourne, Victoria. [read more]
‘Make him show you’ (1968)
This is part two of a television advertisement for three Holden HK sports coupes: the Monaro, Monaro GTS and Monaro GTS 327. The advertisement includes a jingle and male voice-over. [read more]
Death at first sight (1988)
Workers in the funeral industry describe their reactions the first time they saw a dead body. [read more]
‘Buy with confidence’ (1968)
A young family visit their local Holden dealer to purchase a used car. The male voice-over describes the reliability of the Holden dealer and the quality of his stock. The girl sits inside one of the cars, while her parents ... [read more]
What about this boy? (2009)
In China’s Shandong province in 1972 three Beijing Communist Party officials (Zhi Xue Chai, Chang Suo Zhang and Jie Cheng) visit a rural school where the young pupils sing a song of praise to national leader Mao Zedong. They are ... [read more]
