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Gale force winds (1916)

Members of Mawson’s 1911 Antarctic expedition team endeavour to work in gale-force winds and freezing conditions. [read more]

Making up is hard to do (1996)

During Alice and Mia’s house party, Mia (Frances O’Connor) and Danni (Radha Mitchell) both admit they’ve made a mistake in breaking up with each other. [read more]

‘Make them feel inferior’ (1995)

Babe (voiced by Christine Cavanaugh) is humiliated in his first attempt to control a pen of sheep. Fly (voiced by Miriam Margolyes) tells him that pigs are inferior, which he doesn’t believe. Rex (voiced by Hugo Weaving) feels his honour ... [read more]

‘A really big pearl’ (1937)

Concert pianist Daubenny Carshott (Lloyd Hughes) plays for the woman he loves, London society beauty Stella Raff (Elaine Hamill). He has already made up his mind to give up performing, but Stella unsettles him with comments about his music. They ... [read more]

‘Naughty strikers’ (1987)

Debutantes are presented to the Premier’s wife Lady Florence Bjelke-Petersen at a gala occasion held in Central Queensland. Lady Flo speaks of the 'naughty strikers’, and offers advice to the debutants: 'I think it is very important indeed that you’re ... [read more]

Nick-away Ned (1957)

Nick-away Ned (Jock Levy) is a proponent for shorter working hours … every day of the week! Ned sneaks off the job early, only to encounter more trouble than he bargained for. Meanwhile, a shipping owner lurks on the docks ... [read more]

‘What do I see? Afternoon tea!’ (1990)

A new animated sequence brings Mr Squiggle’s rocket to earth. Meanwhile Rebecca (Hetherington) is setting up afternoon tea. Rocket touches down and Mr Squiggle (voiced by Norman Hetherington), with umbrella parachute, lands soon after. They call Blackboard to come and ... [read more]

‘I don’t want to talk about it’ (1996)

The girl (Chloe Ferguson) listens as her parents argue in the next room. Kate, a babysitter (Kate Greetham), arrives as the parents are about to go to counselling. Kate asks the silent child if she has gone mad. Later, the ... [read more]

‘Could he take me back?’ (1985)

Lindy (Marillac Johnston) receives a second letter from the man who says he is her father, with more information about her family. Her real name is Mai and there is a photo of Lindy as a baby with her mother. ... [read more]

Kuala Lumpur (1930)

This clip features street scenes of Kuala Lumpur, including a Hindu Thaipusam festival; examples of colonial architecture; an open air wet market; hawkers and tea sellers. [read more]

Strong spirit (1999)

Over shots of landscape, an elder named Napanangka tells us about Moonga Moonga, a strong spirit who makes children from other cultures sick, and that 'he is bad and cheeky to people from other countries’. In order to sing these ... [read more]

Dreamtime versus Christianity (2005)

Gordon Syron and Elaine Pelot-Kitchener discuss their forthcoming wedding arrangements. The issue of a Christian pastor is a contentious one. [read more]

‘Maternal instinct in hibernation’ (1997)

Baby Lee’s mother, Tracey, suffered from a lack of emotional connection with her child immediately after his birth. She recalls her lack of feeling at the time. Lee’s husband Simon, and her grandmother talk about the difficult time during Tracey’s ... [read more]

True story (2006)

Rupert Kathner (Ben Mendelsohn) announces his filmmaking vision: a projector atop the tallest city building screening his movies on white clouds in the sky, the entire world his audience. [read more]

Everything like a dream (1965)

Nick (George Dixon) is on the run from the police. Margot (Janina Lebedew) and her father (Claude Thomas) stop to help. [read more]

Keeping Australia posted (1988)

This is an Australia Post television commercial (TVC) promoting the organisation’s new corporate image and its range of postal services. [read more]

Nuclear fallout (1981)

Peggy Jones, widow of an Emu Serviceman, recalls her husband’s painful death from cancer years after exposure to an atomic blast. Sir Ernest Titterton, Professor of Nuclear Physics at ANU, says that the testing of nuclear weapons in Australia ... [read more]

A dancing stagehand (1932)

Tommy Dodds (George Wallace) demonstrates his storytelling skills to an unseen audience of musicians in the orchestra pit, during rehearsals for a new show. He is a stagehand, but he says he learned to dance while working on a pig ... [read more]

Imperfecta (2006)

When Connie took her first steps, she broke both her legs. The doctor informs Mummy Nora that Connie had osteogenesis imperfecta, commonly known as ‘chalky bones’ and is sometimes mistaken for rickets. Aunty Connie sits by a window and speaks ... [read more]

Petrouchka (1936)

Three puppet figures – the Moor (Thadee Slavinsky), the Ballerina Doll (Helene Kirsova) and Petrouchka (Leon Woizikovsky) – suddenly come to life and dance onto the stage. They perform a Russian-style dance amongst the crowd at the fairground. [read more]

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