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‘There’s no such thing as ghosts’ (1989)

Bronson (Rodney McLennan) knows there is something weird about the outside loo, but no one believes him. Finally he heads outside to the spooky toilet alone in the dark. [read more]

Top End paradise (2000)

The three boys are halfway to Darwin when they come upon Aboriginal paintings in a cliff cave. The camera travels up over the extraordinary landscape as the boys revel in their surroundings. They lower themselves down a cliff to a ... [read more]

Anmatyerre (2000)

Teddy Briscoe and his family unload the newly purchased horses. Teddy‘s son Johnny welcomes us to his home, Pulardi (Desert Bore). Children gather around the stockyards as Johnny tells us that the children will learn to ride on the pony. ... [read more]

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]

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]

When all seems lost (1999)

This clip from the series theme song, shown in the opening sequence of each episode, tells how Flipper saves a young Polynesian boy, Lopaka, from drowning in a terrible storm. It also introduces Dexter, the power-hungry octopus as the resident ... [read more]

Unemployed (1982)

Three of the characters are introduced – the first lines up for three jobs with ten hopefuls, the next gets the sack because casual staff comes cheap in an economic downturn and another stays at home to mind her sister’s ... [read more]

A great partnership (2005)

When Gayle married Mac she was, and still is, a great beauty. She always looked her best. In order to help her to maintain her sense of worth, Mac is learning how to apply makeup for her. [read more]

Still green (2005)

Two elder Indigenous men walk through the country, they are going to check if there is still water in the area. Specifically they are looking for the soakage. They come to a sandy bed, and to a plant called Ankere_ngkere, ... [read more]

First clean your pig (1979)

The slaughtered pig is washed and shaved with care. It is then hung up and beheaded in the traditional way of slaughtering pigs. [read more]

Don Bradman (1931)

Don Bradman demonstrates his batting technique, executing a 'pull shot’, an 'off drive’ and a 'leg glance’. He is filmed from a number of different angles both in front of and behind the wicket, in slow motion and at standard ... [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]

New Talbingo underway (1967)

In Talbingo, still under construction during the Snowy Mountains Scheme, the process of establishing gardens, lawns and trees, both public and residential, is shown. [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]

Magic realism in South America (2004)

Rolf de Heer was the director of a troubled co-production with a French producer for the film The Old Man Who Read Love Stories with fine performances from Richard Dreyfuss and Hugo Weaving. In the studio, David Stratton and Margaret ... [read more]

‘Can you imagine?’ (2008)

On 25 January 1788 the First Fleet enters Sydney Harbour. Narrator Rachel Perkins and historian Professor Marcia Langton of the Yiman-Bidjara Nation convey the Indigenous point of view of this event. Emeritus Scholar Inga Clendinnen describes attempts by the Aboriginal ... [read more]

‘I don’t believe you’ (1981)

Relations between Peter (Norman Kaye) and Patricia (Wendy Hughes) are strained, but they must continue rehearsals for the play, an amateur production of August Strindberg’s The Father, directed by the flamboyantly theatrical George (John Finlayson). Peter tries to engage Patricia ... [read more]

Capulets and Montagues (1996)

A TV news reporter describes a bitter rivalry in the city of Verona Beach. Engaged in the deadly feud are Romeo’s Montague family and the Capulet family of Juliet. [read more]

Flowers and veges galore (1967)

Shot during the 1960s in the Snowy Mountains, this is footage of quintessentially 1960s-style gardens, including rockeries, flowers and vegetables. [read more]

Recreational activities (1910)

This clip shows the Henley-on-Yarra regatta and celebrations; the agricultural showgrounds and ‘fair barrackers at a football match’. Each segment is introduced with an intertitle. [read more]

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