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Safe and sound and secret (1997)

Brian (Bill Young) has taken Nell (Monica Maughan) to the hospital, where her daughter works. Jim (Tony Barry) has been driving all over the district trying to find Nell, his wife. When he sees that she is safe, he is ... [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]

Melbourne Chinese Orchestra (1931)

This clip shows eight members of the Melbourne Chinese Orchestra performing at Efftee Film Studios in 1931. A stage curtain parts to reveal the orchestra on stage together with some Chinese props. After a wide shot of the whole ensemble, ... [read more]

John Fisher, another Holden driver (1962)

This is a vox pop style interview with Hawthorn winger John Fisher about his Holden. 'Fish’ is interviewed by TV sports commentator Tony Charlton in a parking lot outside an AFL venue prior to a game. [read more]

Church demolition (1911)

Workers on the roof and outside a Christian church in Paisley Street, Footscray, prepare it for demolition. A sign at the front of the church reads, 'This land has been secured by the Federal Picture Company for the erection of ... [read more]

E-Post (1985)

This clip explains the procedure involved in the new E-Post service. [read more]

‘We’re happy little Vegemites’ (1959)

A children’s chorus promotes the health properties of Vegemite, a popular Australian yeast spread, in this radio jingle from the late 1950s. [read more]

She’s back! (1997)

Elvis (Stig Wemyss) and Lionel (Kylie Belling) are riding their scoot-boards in the desert when a big road truck appears. It’s Janet Rig (Marg Downey) and her trucker mum. Li’l Elvis’s greatest fear is realised when he discovers that Janet ... [read more]

Masters of disguise (1987)

A criminal and ‘master of disguise’ (voiced by Patrick Frost) has taken on the form of a moustachioed dustbin, but Great Detective Alex Holmes (voiced by Lachlan Haig) and his faithful but reluctant canine assistant Watson (voiced by David Burchell) ... [read more]

‘If there’s anything I can do…’ (2011)

This scene introduces Lisa (Marta Dusseldorp) during a sexual encounter with Tom (Matthew Goode) in her new kitchen. The next scene shows how they met by chance in a restaurant a little earlier. [read more]

Corporate image (1988)

This is an Australia Post television commercial (TVC) promoting the organisation’s new corporate image. [read more]

‘Saturday kind of car’ (1967)

A paperboy delivers the Saturday newspaper in a suburban street. A man in his pyjamas waves to his wife as she leaves to do the weekly grocery shopping, taking her daughter and the family dog with her in the Holden ... [read more]

Middle harbour scenery and canoeing (1927)

This clip from a silent black-and-white cinema advertisement for Castlecrag Estate shows people alighting from a car and walking through the bush at Sylvan Glades to the foreshore of Middle Harbour. Two rowboats and a small motorboat are shown floating ... [read more]

‘What did you say?’ (2001)

Upset by a patient, psychiatrist Dr Valerie Somers (Barbara Hershey) attacks a stranger in the street, imagining she heard a remark. The stranger, Pete O’May (Glenn Robbins) seeks refuge in a pub, where he meets Leon Zat (Anthony LaPaglia). [read more]

Thinking about hormones (1995)

The man (Syd Brisbane) laughs at the way his life is turning out, as the woman (Ulli Birvé) keeps changing locales, at her whim, from desert to forest to mountaintop. She suggests they need to have ‘a relationship’, for which ... [read more]

Hector learns to fly (1927)

After they rescue Hector from captivity in the Twirt mansion, with the help of Madeline Twirt (Eileen Alexander) and her lovesick suitor Horatio John Wart (Jimmy Taylor), the gang members realise they’ve run out of time. Wart offers to fly ... [read more]

‘We need you’ (1996)

Stockman Patrick (Robert Mammone) has broken the news to his girlfriend Becky (Maya Stange) that he is leaving town after a falling out with the McLeod sisters. He and the other staff are unwilling to take orders from a woman ... [read more]

Jenolan Caves (1929)

A tour group visits Jenolan Caves, New South Wales in 1929, and observes the extraordinary stalactite and stalagmite rock formations. [read more]

HMAS Brisbane launched (1915)

Crowds gather at the docks at Cockatoo Island for the launching of the HMAS Brisbane on 30 September 1915. Mrs Fisher, wife of the then Prime Minister Andrew Fisher, breaks a bottle of champagne over the ship’s bow. The ... [read more]

‘Hitta da ball – smasha da win’ (1927)

Fatty and his friends are being chased by an irate Italian man after Fatty hit a cricket ball through his window. Constable Claffey (Leonard Durell), who bowled the ball, pretends to be uninvolved, after hiding with ‘Seasy’ (Billy Ireland), the ... [read more]

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