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‘Country Gardens’ (1919)
This is a pianola version of Percy Grainger’s ‘Country Gardens’ performed by the composer in New York in 1919. [read more]
Crocodile hunting (1956)
Outback adventurer Keith F Adams hunts and skins a crocodile. He cuts the croc open to reveal the leg of a cow that it has killed. A poisonous taipan slithers by. [read more]
Zen Buddhism (2004)
John Safran road tests Zen Buddhism at a Japanese monastery that belongs to the Rinzai school. This sequence shows his third attempt to ask a philosophical riddle, or koan, that the Roshi master has set him. [read more]
‘This is all we’ve got’ (1986)
The drive-in detainees become angry when Asians arrive. Jimmy (Ned Manning) argues with Carmen (Natalie McCurry) about her reaction to the newcomers. He asks her to escape with him. [read more]
Demand for rental subsidies (1939)
Men and women sign a petition for a 'Fair Rents Court’. This is followed by a sequence of news headlines about the petition. A letter drop is sent to rent payers urging them to demand a rent subsidy. More news ... [read more]
Graeme Murphy (1988)
Choreographer Graeme Murphy directs dancers in rehearsal for a cricket ballet. We then see the Sydney Dance Company performing the ballet, and end with Murphy talking about what he looks for in Australian dancers as we see a rehearsal of ... [read more]
Getting a job (1969)
Molony is driving through the suburbs of Canberra talking to interviewer Robin Hughes about how he went about finding a job after so many years in the church. Without a reference from his former colleagues, and too proud to ask ... [read more]
‘We need you’ (1996)
Stockman Patrick (Robert Mammone) has broken the news to his girlfriend Becky (Maya Stange) that he is leaving town after a falling out with the McLeod sisters. He and the other staff are unwilling to take orders from a woman ... [read more]
Nobody is listening (2007)
Newspaper editor Rami Khouri argues that modern political history has generated terrorism and that the situation will worsen if this is not recognised. Journalist Robert Fisk notes that when new footage of Osama Bin Laden surfaces the focus is always ... [read more]
Testing for disease (1992)
Bryan Smith is in Denmark to report on the latest research into the prevention of cervical cancer. The pap smear test is used to pick up early signs of cervical cancer in women. There is a much more accurate means ... [read more]
Polycythemia (2005)
Still photographer Carol Jerrems (1949-1980) documents her time in hospital with the terminal illness polycythemia. [read more]
Corporate image (1988)
This is an Australia Post television commercial (TVC) promoting the organisation’s new corporate image. [read more]
‘I’m going to Nashville’ (1997)
Ralph (Matt Day) attempts to fix the car after driving through the night with Boyd (Richard Roxburgh) and Patsy (Miranda Otto), two big-city types in a rush to get to Sydney. Boyd’s impatience causes an injury to Ralph’s hand. He ... [read more]
Wokabout Marketing (1996)
Andrew Rose is a marketing executive based in Port Moresby. He organises a troupe of actors who perform vignettes in remote villages to promote the purchase of Western goods. Omo, the washing powder, is demonstrated. [read more]
New vocabulary (1995)
Choreographer Meryl Tankard says she tries to create a 'new vocabulary’ whenever she creates a new dance piece. We see her rehearsing a new piece with the Adelaide based company, Australian Dance Theatre. A member of the CORPS de ... [read more]
‘Little baby one’ (1993)
A family are looking for bush potato, a much-loved favourite. Women using tools to dig up the potato show us that it takes great effort to gather it – but, we are told, the expenditure of energy is worth it. [read more]
Li’s first triumph (2009)
Li’s (Chi Cao) first public appearance in a leading role with the Houston Ballet is a triumph – one watched with pride by his US mentor Ben (Bruce Greenwood) from the audience, and his girlfriend Liz (Amanda Schull) at home ... [read more]
One way trip (2009)
With the din of humming bees ever-present, Australia’s largest live honeybee exporter, Warren Taylor, gives a tour of his apiary. Bees are being smoked out of their hives, collected and crated to be shipped off to the United States in ... [read more]
In and around Hamilton District (1920)
Fruit pickers pick peaches off trees and empty their bags into a trough. They then sort the peaches into crates and hammer them closed for transportation. Four women arrive by truck and eat the peaches, demonstrating how delicious the peaches ... [read more]
Surfer girl (2004)
Brett (Zachary Garred) makes Hannah (Lynn Styles) enter the surfing competition to maintain the story they told his mother Jackie (Kirsty Hillhouse). Hannah can barely swim and almost drowns in the shallows. She is utterly furious with him. [read more]
