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Jen-Diki attack (1987)
Soldiers from the future and Jen-Diki cyborgs wage war in outback Australia, 1988. Annie (Nikki Coghill) and Ballard (Tom Burlinson) are caught in the crossfire. Ballard gains strength from his injured mentor, Sun-wah (Thye Liew Wan). [read more]
Modern appliances (2006)
Electrolux asked design students from around the world to come up with a set of designs for household gadgets for 2020. The result is a collection on show at the Sydney Powerhouse Museum. [read more]
Rehearsing for war (1918)
The Australian Prime Minister, Mr WM Hughes, poses for the camera with General Sir William Birdwood, commander of the Australian forces in France, in mid-1916. Mr Hughes is accompanied by the Australian High Commissioner to Great Britain, Andrew Fisher, a ... [read more]
National Network Nightly News (1995)
Narelle Parkinson (Kitty Flanagan) and Ian Gooding (John Walker) present the National Network Nightly News, with a live cross to reporter David McGann (Shaun Micallef). Phil Toynby (Francis Greenslade) presents the weather. [read more]
Sack race (1984)
The second version of the opening titles lead into a hotly contested sack race between presenters Noni (Hazlehurst) and John (Hamblin) involving an obstacle course around Play School toys Jemima, Diddle the cat and Big Ted, with Humpty watching on. [read more]
Willie’s lesson (1939)
Willie collapses in the snow. He is found just in time by a rabbit, who summons help from the others. The following season, Willie takes a barrow full of fruit to the bank for deposit. He turns to the camera ... [read more]
School (2004)
Ricco sits amongst a group of children roughly the same age as himself. They are learning about maps of the world, as well as Warlpiri. [read more]
Kings saved by Ransom (1950)
The King family is about to turn back, defeated by dry waterholes, when they meet a government patrol officer. Ransom (Michael Pate) tells them where to find water. He and Wally (Chips Rafferty) then discuss the King family’s new land ... [read more]
Child workers (1985)
Joe (Christopher Schlusser) is ill and has come back home. Things have changed. His father (Tony Llewellyn Jones) is now helping around the home and has signed the pledge, promising he won’t drink again. Talking to Joe, he shows a ... [read more]
Christmas barbarians (1995)
Mrs Hoggett (Magda Szubanski) has just measured Babe, because she’s planning on roast pork for Christmas lunch. The old ewe Maa (Miriam Flynn) is disgusted at the thought of someone eating a pig, but Babe is none the wiser. He ... [read more]
‘Everything is upside down’ (1990)
The tea party was ‘worth making a song and dance about’ but Rebecca (Hetherington), Blackboard and Mr Squiggle (both operated and voiced by Norman Hetherington) are waiting for Gus the Snail to arrive. In the meantime, it’s time for a ... [read more]
Bougainville healing (2000)
When the people of Bougainville Island were blockaded for forcibly closing the copper mine they had to relearn their traditional ways of medicine. We see them gathering, preparing and applying traditional medicine as they talk in voice-over. [read more]
Two roots (2004)
During a palaeontological excavation volunteer Nicola Barton found a remarkable fossil. The tooth contained two roots indicating a mammal. Dr Thomas Rich from Museum Victoria and the School of Geosciences, Monash University declared that it belonged to a mammal, not ... [read more]
South African anarchy (2003)
Glory is a black South African mother who suffered from the wide spread urban violence in Johannesburg. A neighbour sexually assaulted her twin four-year-old daughters repeatedly over three weeks. The offender was released on bail and allowed back in the ... [read more]
A chance meeting (1987)
There’s a truck parked on the side of the road and Mac (Bryan Brown) rushes to grab them a lift. It turns out to be the recently widowed Lily (Noni Hazlehurst), the love of Mac’s life, and she brings him ... [read more]
Nature in miniature (1980)
A poetic sequence of water and rocks along the middle Franklin River, with Bob Brown in voice-over philosophising about nature and life. [read more]
Physique, aptitude and technique (1959)
Body size and shape will often indicate the sport most suitable for any particular athlete. Athletes illustrating the differing body types are shown including: Olympic champion Charles Morris, Olympic weightlifter Manny Santos, Captain of Australia’s athletic team Kevin Gosper and ... [read more]
National service (1915)
This clip begins with text outlining Colonel Cameron’s suggestion on returning from the Dardanelles that Australia should introduce compulsory national service. A white outline of Australia and New Zealand is turned sideways to form the head of a caricatured Australian ... [read more]
‘A Milk Tray day today’ (1955)
This clip contains three short advertisements, all with the jingle 'sing toora-lay it’s a Milk Tray day today’. The first is set in a fairground with a couple riding on a carousel. The man offers the woman Milk Tray chocolates ... [read more]
Welcome to Seymour Island (2006)
This contemporary Polar expedition follows in the footsteps of Otto Nordenskjöld, the explorer who went to Antarctica over a hundred years ago to look for fossils which would connect Antarctica to South America and Australia. [read more]
