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Home dentistry for Dad Rudd (1932)
Mrs Rudd (Alfreda Bevan) tries to welcome Mrs White (Dorothy Dunkley) to her humble home, but Dad Rudd (Bert Bailey) scares her away when he appears in his nightshirt. He is driven mad by toothache, so Dave (Fred McDonald), Uncle ... [read more]
An evening at home (1950)
This is taken from a sequence depicting the domestic routine of a family evening spent at home. Clarke arranges it into a narrative which begins with a train pulling into Wahroonga station, and includes scenes of shopping, driving, cooking, and ... [read more]
Molly and Mobarak (2003)
Molly and Mobarak attend a rally in Canberra in support of the refugees being allowed permanent protection in Australia, Members of the Young community also attend. Jane Keogh from the Refugee Action Committee addresses the crowd. The director Tom Zubrycki ... [read more]
Green gold (2004)
People at a market are seen buying and consuming the psychoactive drug, betelnut, also called green gold. It is chewed with lime and mustard. It is used by millions of people in the Western Pacific and East Africa. [read more]
Mr Johnson gets heavy (1990)
Danny (Ben Mendelsohn) arrives at the Johnson house for his first date with Joanna (Claudia Karvan). Mr Johnson (Tim Robertson) scares the daylights out of him, with very specific warnings that Joanna is only too familiar with. Danny is relieved ... [read more]
Demand for rental subsidies (1939)
Men and women sign a petition for a 'Fair Rents Court’. This is followed by a sequence of news headlines about the petition. A letter drop is sent to rent payers urging them to demand a rent subsidy. More news ... [read more]
Good and bad crooks (2003)
Restaurant owner Darren ‘Dabba’ Barrington (Timothy Spall) rejects an offer of partnership from drug dealer Chicka Martin (Gary Sweet). Dabba is an experienced criminal now largely going straight. Chicka wants to launder drug money through his loss-making restaurant, but Dabba ... [read more]
Reception and photographs (1914)
The camera films the wedding party compose themselves for still photographs at the reception. Some of the guests are also shown. The clip ends with the bride and groom standing in front of a staircase smiling for the camera. [read more]
Roma Street Station (1899)
This actuality footage shows a train pulling up to Roma Street Station, Brisbane in 1899. Commuters disembark and exit the platform via a side gate or walk up the stairs towards the camera. [read more]
Husky Blues (1993)
The last huskies to serve in the Antarctic are shipped off to a new home in the USA. The hardy dogs are serenaded by Husky Blues composed by Peter Jaksic, sung by Jacky Jensen and Randall Waller. [read more]
Ngadjonji country (2005)
Bill Homenko, an elderly descendent of Russian immigrants talks to camera about his childhood recollections. Ngadjonji country, around Rosser River, is the thousand-year-old home of Kitty Clarke’s people. Historical stills are intermixed with re-enactments of Kitty Clarke’s mother’s first glimpse ... [read more]
Don’t wrap it (1988)
This is an Australia Post television commercial (TVC) promoting the use of Postpaks instead of ordinary wrapping paper for packaging postage parcels. When the boss asks a younger office worker to wrap a parcel, he is delivered Australia’s Post’s ... [read more]
Pressure to perform (1998)
Primary school girls compete to be chosen for the Australian gymnastics team. Pressure is on the young gymnasts as they train at the Western Australian Institute of Sport. The girls and coaches are interviewed in 1994 and then in 1996. [read more]
Kayasa (1976)
‘Mission games’, like soccer and cricket, are played by the Trobriand Islanders in 1950. A group of modern men talk about how they play the game of cricket and the differences from the way they were taught initially. In the ... [read more]
Losing sight of Mr Holt (1967)
This is mute unedited black-and-white footage establishing the Cheviot Beach site and showing members of the beach party retracing their steps in the moments when they last saw Prime Minister Harold Holt. [read more]
No soft option (2005)
We go 'inside the circle’ to see Circle Sentencing in action. Robert is an Aboriginal man who has been in trouble many times for domestic violence. Now he’s face-to-face with the victim and four Aboriginal Elders who are about to ... [read more]
And they lived happily ever after! (2002)
One of the seven dwarves stole the apple to save Snow White. After a lot of effort, the cops have finally worked out a way to get the dwarf to ‘cough up’ the stolen apple with the help of Claude, ... [read more]
Auteur (1999)
Footage of a group of bikers riding and interviews with Sandy Harbutt in 1998 and 1973 are intercut with black-and-white and colour footage. Harbutt explains how he was able to get the numbers of bikies for the funeral scene in ... [read more]
Patriotic procession (1915)
This newsreel segment shows a parade in 1915 for the French Red Cross. People dressed in costumes walk, ride horses or ride in horse-drawn carriages along an inner-city street of Melbourne, Victoria while trams can be seen in the background. ... [read more]
Meet the Browns (1997)
Middle child Matilda Brown says that youngest sibling, Joe, is getting all the attention. Eldest child Rosie says that Matilda told her she would kill Joe because he got all the attention. Joe says that his sisters are ‘horrible and ... [read more]
