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The Sun Worshippers (1922)
This footage is a fragment from a documentary covering a scientific expedition to Wallal, Western Australia for the 1922 Solar Eclipse. The eclipse occurred on 21 September. [read more]
Greetings from Wollongong (1982)
Greetings From Wollongong is a short drama about the lives of four unemployed young adults living in an Australian industrial city. The film follows the characters as they face rejection, boredom, social isolation, family tensions and lack of money. Set ... [read more]
Hypsi: the Forest Gardener (1998)
The documentary follows zoologist Dr Andrew Dennis as he studies the life cycle of the smallest kangaroo, the hypsi (musky rat-kangaroo), in Far North Queensland’s rainforest, and discovers the secrets of its survival. [read more]
Track Record: The Story of Australia’s Railways - Tethered to the World (1991)
This is one episode from a four-part series that looks at the history of the railway network in Australia. This episode outlines the surviving tourist railways of Australia. It also looks at the problems presented by the legacies of the ... [read more]
Australia Today – The ‘Pyjama Girl’ Murder Case (1939)
This Australia Today newsreel, produced in the 1930s by Rupert Kathner, investigates the famous ‘Pyjama Girl’ murder case, which remained unsolved in Australia for over ten years. On 1 September 1934, the body of an unidentified woman was found ... [read more]
The FJ Holden (1977)
Kevin (Paul Couzens) and his best mate Bob (Carl Stever) share everything, even girls. They live in working class Bankstown in Sydney, and spend all their spare time restoring and cruising in Kevin’s FJ Holden. When Kevin meets Anne (Eva ... [read more]
Bridging the Parramatta River (1967)
Children play on the banks of a stream west of Sydney where the Parramatta River begins. A coloured beach ball tossed into the stream floats down the waterway which becomes a river then runs into Sydney Harbour. As the beach ... [read more]
The Secret Life of Us – Now or Never (2001)
The Secret Life of Us follows a group of 20-somethings living in and around the same apartment block. In this episode, Evan (Samuel Johnson) discovers he has been accepted into a two-month writer’s course in New York, just as ... [read more]
Dynasties – The Murdochs (2001)
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is the last of the world’s great media empires controlled by a family dynasty. The Murdochs is a portrait of a very close-knit family. Now in his seventies, Rupert Murdoch is the only son of ... [read more]
Lift Off – That’s Not Fair – Part B (1992)
This is part B of the episode That’s Not Fair, and has the usual Lift Off mix of live action, animation, puppetry, music, documentary and fantasy. The main storyline is about the Lift Off kids, interspersed with the other elements. ... [read more]
Loading Horses on the SS Cornwall (1899)
Officers of the Queensland Mounted Infantry lead horses down a ramp to board the SS Cornwall on 31 October 1899, prior to their departure for the Boer War. [read more]
Murray-Will, Ewan: Ballets Russes: Petrouchka: Carnaval: Aurora’s Wedding (c1936)
This silent footage, filmed by Ewan Murray-Will, shows the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo performing scenes from Petrouchka, Carnaval, and Aurora’s Wedding during their 1936–37 tour of Australia. [read more]
The Movie Show – Episode 4 (2004)
A half-hour magazine program for television with Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton, the doyens of Australian television movie reviewers. This week they talk about Girl With A Pearl Earring with Colin Firth and Scarlett Johannson and the teen movie 13 ... [read more]
The Evolution of a Chocolate (1925)
Presented by the Made in Australia Council, this documentary details the processes used in the making of confectionery at an Australian chocolate making factory. [read more]
Inauguration of the Commonwealth (1901)
This documentary shows the official parade and the swearing in of Australia’s first Governor General and Federal Cabinet for the Inauguration of the Commonwealth on the January 1, 1901. [read more]
Winners – The Paper Boy (1985)
It is 1932 and Joe (Christopher Schlusser) is 11 years old. When his father John Riordan (Tony Llewellyn Jones) loses his factory job, Joe gets a job as a paper boy, and his tiny wage is all the family has ... [read more]
The Official Film of the Mawson Antarctic Expedition (c1916)
This film documents part of the treacherous 600 mile 1911–1914 expedition to the Magnetic South Pole led by Sir Douglas Mawson. The documentary features the team’s departure from Hobart, Tasmania aboard the vessel Aurora. It shows wildlife at Macquarie Island ... [read more]
Jack Thompson Down Under – Episode 3 (1987)
This magazine-style show presents aspects of Australian life culled from footage shot over the years by the ABC for their groundbreaking television documentary series A Big Country (1992), as well as from the archive of the national ... [read more]
The Old Man and the Inland Sea (2005)
A documentary about Mr Norman Hayes Jagamarra who was a 'noodler’ on the mining fields of Coober Pedy. [read more]
Overland Adventure: The Story of the 1954 Redex Reliability Trial (1954)
This is a Cinesound documentary about the Round Australia 1954 Redex Reliability Trial – a 15,450 kilometre motor endurance rally over rough terrain and unsealed roads. Overland Adventure follows the changing fortunes of some of the 246 entrants during the ... [read more]
