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Bush coconut (1999)
A group of women are collecting bush coconuts, with a younger woman climbing the tree to collect them. She throws them down to the older women. A woman breaks one open whilst holding it in the palm of her hand, ... [read more]
Ocean Girl’s mysterious past (1995)
Jason (David Hoflin), Brett (Jeffrey Walker) and the kids from Orca find a spaceship buried beneath the sand in the badlands on Neri’s (Marzena Godecki) tropical island. Neri finds a way into the spaceship under the water, and she and ... [read more]
Third time lucky (1984)
The South Australian explorer John McDouall Stuart (Clive Marshall) had learnt his skills as a bushman from the great explorer Sturt. What he learnt from his mentor was to travel light, using horses not drays and moving fast over the ... [read more]
‘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]
‘A great partnership’ (1942)
A family sits around the breakfast table after son Ted has finished his night shift at the munitions factory. His mother tells him how proud she is of both her sons – one in the armed forces fighting overseas on ... [read more]
Ord Noah revisited (1976)
Harry Butler has come back to north-east Western Australia, to Lake Argyle, made from the damming of the Ord River. Five years before, he was part of the team called 'Ord Noah’, brought in to save native fauna from the ... [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]
Freshwater crocodiles (1933)
This clip shows freshwater crocodiles on a riverbank in Australia’s tropical north. A man carrying a rifle crawls along on his stomach to hunt the sleeping reptiles. On seeing him, the crocodiles head for the nearby lagoon but not before ... [read more]
Introducing Mavis Bramston (1964)
A glimpse of the British performer’s ‘audition tape’ shows why Mavis Bramston (Noeline Brown) will not be the star of The Mavis Bramston Show after all. [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]
Byron Bay’s history (1996)
The Byron Bay area was formed 20 million years ago by volcanic activity. Forest Ecologist, Rob Kooyman, explains the history through to Aboriginal settlement. [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]
‘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]
Parliament station underground (1978)
The Melbourne Underground Loop System includes a station under Parliament House in Spring Street. This clip features an architect’s model of the planned development and draft plans for the underground platforms. An explanatory voice-over is used throughout the clip. [read more]
Eviction plan (1990)
Mr Kolopolis (voiced by Angelo Pannas) devises a plan to evict the squatters in an attempt to protect his daughter from the advances of Johnny Foetus (voiced by Adam Cullen). He approaches the residents about signing his petition asking council ... [read more]
Before school (1951)
Children make their way to school. On arrival, they realise their dog has followed them. Before lessons begin, school banking deposits are taken in the classroom by the children’s teacher Mr Lowe. Mr Phillips, of the Commonwealth Savings Bank, arrives ... [read more]
Dreaming of glass (2003)
The story of how a commission from Manningham City Council helped start Wathaurong Glass, with shots of the beautiful artwork hanging in buildings. A practitioner speaks of going to Milan to exhibit his artwork, where the arts community has never ... [read more]
