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Swanston St Shamble (1944)
This is an excerpt from 'Swanston St Shamble’, one of the first jazz recordings of Graeme Bell’s Dixieland Band, from a session in January 1944. [read more]
An average day: out of control (2011)
Tom (Matthew Goode) fields repeated phone calls from two different women as he goes about his daily work of selecting food for his restaurant from the wholesalers. [read more]
‘Just to prove that I met him’ (1941)
This clip from a home movie filmed by Australia’s Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, begins with Mrs Clementine Churchill in curlers waving out a window to the camera. It then shows Sarah Churchill in the garden, Mrs Randolph Churchill getting ... [read more]
Families (1985)
Carol is making coffee for Angie (Alyssa Cook) in the kitchen with her mother Alison Trig (Veronica Lang). Peter Trig (Terence Donovan) won’t let the rather overawed Angie walk home so drives her. Angie gets out at a fake address ... [read more]
‘Ungrateful lot of bludgers’ (1997)
Bob (Bill Hunter) tries to phone various homes to determine which bowling ladies are home safely. He calls Jean’s husband but Jack (Alwyn Kurts) is outside emptying the teapot. The ambulance has gone astray, having been given the wrong directions. ... [read more]
Mix tape (2003)
The awkward hero – a boy with an analog tape recorder for a head – tries to ask his neighbour out on a date. [read more]
Naval review at Spithead (1953)
This clip from a home movie, filmed by Australian Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies, begins with the intertitle 'H.M.A.S. Sydney’. Sailors stand on the top deck of a submarine as it cruises past the camera. An intertitle introduces ‘The Royal ... [read more]
Bondi bush baby (1936)
Chut explores his forest world, hopping about madly, as his mother keeps a watchful eye. He encounters many strange things – a koala moving from one tree to another and a bossy emu that chases him, until an older kangaroo ... [read more]
Children at play (1964)
Annemaria plays with her dolls. Her two brothers, Andrew and the younger Harold entertain themselves with model boats and cars. The boys unwrap and then play a game of Monopoly while Annemaria eagerly watches on. [read more]
Random APEC security checks (2007)
In this stunt from The Chaser’s War on Everything, Chas Licciardello poses as a security officer working for APEC and asks members of the public to undergo random checks. [read more]
Work (1948)
Molly punches a bundy card, 'clocking on’ at her work where she is a junior in a factory, sewing fabric on a sewing machine. After work, Molly is noticed in the street by an older man. She stops to chat ... [read more]
Tin mining (1930)
This clip shows work inside a tin mining plant, including dredging buckets lifting ore from the bed of the river and local workers operating machinery to separate ore from water. [read more]
Mementos (2000)
The narrator (Clare Larman) recalls the time her father befriended a dog that was blind in one eye. She also talks about mementos of her father that she has retained. [read more]
Christmas Eve in Darwin (1986)
Journalist Steve Parry (Chris Haywood) and Hilton (Paul Pryor), his friend and cameraman, drink at a tin-shed pub called Polly’s on Christmas Eve, 1974. [read more]
Jelly sandwiches in H division (2000)
Beasley (Fred Barker) warns Mark 'Chopper’ Read (Eric Bana) that the Painters and Dockers, a faction within the prison, have put out a contract on his life. Read is amused, because he can’t believe anyone in H Division is man ... [read more]
‘I can still hear her screaming’ (2000)
The narrator (Clare Larman) remembers her father’s death and her mother’s resulting mental breakdown. [read more]
‘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]
House meeting (2001)
Dirk (Francis McMahon) calls a house meeting. Nina (Sophie Lee) lays down the rules to new tenant Sam (Emily Hamilton). [read more]
‘All girls like cars that go fast’ (1994)
Dazey (Ben Mendelsohn) helps Joe (Aden Young) find the courage to ask Savina (Tara Morice) on a date. [read more]
Sheep dog trial (1915)
A largely static wide shot of a typical Australian showground captures a sheepdog trainer and his sheepdog herding three sheep into a pen. [read more]
