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‘Go you Yagoona no-names’ (2006)
In the dressing rooms, the Yagoona Schooners are paralysed with fear because they have to play a team stacked with rugby league legends. Luc’s grandfather (Dao Minh Sinh) and his room-mate Bob (Leslie Dayman) leave the nursing home to join ... [read more]
Hey Shamus! (2001)
The little Shamuses go on a fun spree while the anxious real Shamus and Tracey search for them. [read more]
Pool and films (1998)
Poet Les Murray and writer Bob Ellis recall their favourite films over a game of pool. Ellis and Murray recall The Hustler and repeat some lines from the American classic. [read more]
Unexpected guests (1940)
A woman serves afternoon tea to her unexpected but appreciative guests. The guests comment on the delicious cheese-topped biscuits she has quickly prepared for them. Back in the kitchen, the woman demonstrates how easy it is to prepare Kraft ... [read more]
Maurice Chevalier impression (1931)
On a stage inside Frank Thring’s Efftee Film Studios, veteran stage performer Minnie Love impersonates French comedian and singer Maurice Chevalier singing the songs 'Valentine’ (1924) and 'On Top of the World, Alone’. [read more]
Dictionary (1988)
This is an Australia Post television commercial (TVC), promoting the Lettergram service as a replacement for the telegram service. [read more]
‘At least I’m better off than you’ (1998)
Madelaine (Joey Kennedy) starts feeding Julia (Heather Rose). She is so busy talking to Julia about her problems in attracting a reliable boyfriend that she doesn’t notice she is feeding Julia too fast. When Julia chokes on the food and ... [read more]
‘Lift your soul not your face’ (2003)
Australian Dr Helen Caldicott has been campaigning for a nuclear-free world for thirty years. She is trying to raise money in the USA for her campaign. Medical writer Joe Keon hears her on the radio and creates a fundraiser ... [read more]
A tribute to Tamworth (1995)
Townsfolk and visitors to the Tamworth Country Music Festival pay tribute to the town. [read more]
First Australian notes (1910)
This newsreel item shows an Australian one pound banknote with 'Bank of New South Wales’ printed on it. [read more]
Uranium blockade (1999)
Anti-uranium mining protestors block the road access to Jabiluka in the Northern Territory. The mining company issues trespass notices and the NT police clear the road, making several arrests. [read more]
Polish Catholics (1991)
We see a full Catholic ceremony, and hear that ninety per cent of Poles are Catholics, and that 40 years of communism did not destroy their faith. This is followed by a plain communist-style civil wedding taking seven minutes. [read more]
Coming a gutser (1937)
Patricia Blaydon (Shirley Ann Richards) has been invited by Lady Denvee (Bobbie Hunt) to ride with the local fox hunt. Lord Blaydon (Cecil Kellaway) gives some riding hints to a stranger on the road, then shows him some neighbourly kindness ... [read more]
Octopuses also enjoy fresh lobster (1998)
An octopus discovers lobsters trapped in a lobster pot. When the fishers pull up the pot they discover a lobster has been eaten by the octopus. [read more]
Looking for wild honey (2006)
A car drives into Mt Liebig. The young woman talks about Mt Liebig and how it is ‘a good and strong place’. Shots of the residential area of Mt Liebig. A map shows the location of Mt Liebig in proximity ... [read more]
‘Happy birthday, dad’ (2003)
The camera slowly crawls towards the front door, over the first-floor balcony and into the front bedroom to discover Steve (Gary Sweet) asleep in his bed, watched by his wife Alexandra (Helen Buday). She goes to the bathroom where she ... [read more]
Assault (1982)
The car mechanics at a petrol station impose their sexual desire for the car-woman onto that Australian icon, the FX Holden. [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]
Blue mountains scenery (1930)
Various scenes in and around the Blue Mountains are shown including: bathers in a pool; Leura gardens; holiday homes; Leura golf course; the Katoomba cascades and the Three Sisters rock formation. [read more]
