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Manuka Swimming Pool (1961)
This silent, colour home movie shows the Dimpel family enjoying a sunny afternoon at the local public swimming pool. They are swimming in the wading pool, surrounded by lush lawns. [read more]
Birthday party (1950)
The Gerakiteys family celebrate their daughters’ birthday in their family garden. Their younger son watches on as the girls sit with their birthday cakes. Other family members are shown and the whole family poses for a portrait. [read more]
A winner is chosen (2005)
Presenter James O’Loghlin teases out the elements necessary for a winner, while the judges are faced with the almost impossible task of choosing between three really cleverly designed and useful inventions. [read more]
‘Geez I’d love a Passiona’ (1979)
Bill (John Jarratt) is bored and thirsty on patrol, until the Australians discover a Viet Cong bush camp. They lay in wait for the enemy’s return. [read more]
Spotswood pumping station (1922)
After seeing the interior of the electrical pumping station at Spotswood, an intertitle explains how sewerage is pumped through pipes from below to above the low watermark. A man walks through a section of pipe to illustrate its width and ... [read more]
‘Never take it for granted’ (1982)
Jim Craig (Tom Burlinson) has rescued Jessica Harrison (Sigrid Thornton) from her ordeal in the mountains. Riding to visit Spur, the one-legged gold miner, they discuss the beauty and unpredictability of the mountains. [read more]
Some Sunday morning (1920)
The camera follows a group of people throwing a ball as they walk down to the gentle surf at St Kilda Beach. They dive in and continue to the play with the ball. In the background people relax on the ... [read more]
‘Best time to skate’ (2005)
Poker (Richard Wilson) and Blue (Ho Thi Lu) wake Spasm (Sean Kennedy) after they have liberated his skateboard from the ‘confiscated’ cupboard at school. They take off on a two-day skate trip across the city, heading for Beachbowl, the major ... [read more]
Always adapting (2009)
Bee pathologist Dr Denis Anderson is visiting one of the largest apiaries in the world. Investigating hives with an American keeper, Denis finds that they are all infested by the Varroa mite. The keeper and Denis explain that the mites ... [read more]
‘They’re always wild to begin with’ (1956)
Having rescued a sick crocodile hunter (Pierre Cressoy), the patrol continues into the Western Highlands, to the place that 'Sharkeye’ Kelly has named 'Paradise Valley’. McAllister (Chips Rafferty) announces his intention to contact the villagers – his first obligation as ... [read more]
Seduced (1987)
A woman (voiced by Julie Forsyth), reflecting on the view from her balcony in St Kilda, considers the differences between Indigenous and white settlers’ understanding of the landscape and the latter group’s ‘seduction by glamour’ – or images of glamour ... [read more]
A six way investment (1956)
This advertisement begins on a building site with a man loading a sheet of plywood onto the back of the new Holden utility. A voice-over describes purchasing the new ute as a 'six way investment’. Shots of the utility in ... [read more]
In native Australia (1917)
This is the entire footage with French intertitles. Highlights include a sequence where young Aboriginal men throw their spears at a target, then form a line and begin moving forwards and backwards, and finally charge with spears raised at the ... [read more]
Hide and seek (1968)
Sonny (Garry Pankhurst) and older brother Mark (Ken James) race through the Waratah National Park Wildlife Reserve playing a game of hide and seek with Skippy. Skippy wins round one and hides her eyes with her paws for a rematch. ... [read more]
Among us (1954)
This clip shows Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh arriving in George Street, Sydney, on Wednesday 3 February 1954. They are greeted by a huge, excited crowd. The Queen lays a wreath on the cenotaph at Martin Place. [read more]
A marriage of cultures (1987)
A brush pushes dots against an all black canvas. Trevor Nickolls tells us about the influences that shape his work. Nickolls refers to the Western machinery and Indigenous cosmology known as the Dreaming. [read more]
Heather Henderson (2006)
An excerpt from a 14 minute interview with Heather Henderson, the daughter of Australian Prime Minister RG Menzies, in which she talks about her father’s home movies. Mrs Henderson describes how the home movies of London during the Blitz capture ... [read more]
‘My father used to spear emus’ (2008)
The experience of Tjalkabotta seeing white people for the first time is told through interviews with author Peter Vallee and readings of diary excerpts. In this way, Tjalkabotta recounts his life as a child before white occupation of his country. ... [read more]
Hay, Barrack and William Streets (1907)
Leonard Corrick’s camera moves up and down the streets of Perth recording the action on the street. At one point a man bumps into another man in the street and fisticuffs ensue as the camera moves past. [read more]
Bank loan (2002)
Emerging film producers Jason Gooden and Julian Saggers have applied to a bank to borrow $240,000 to continue making their under-funded feature film. Jason explains that the bank thinks it is a housing loan. He ends by saying ‘we will ... [read more]
