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Evelyn clashes with everyone (1999)
Evelyn Spence (Maya Stange) takes the side of the villagers against Reverend Macgregor (John Howard) at a funeral because he wants them to use the Christian graveyard and change their usual practices. Upon her return home, she and Dr Phillip ... [read more]
George on Harmony Row (1999)
Actor George Wallace was a big success when he starred in the 1933 Australian feature film Harmony Row. Bill Kerr remembers his own screen debut. [read more]
Australia’s wild shores (1987)
Jack Thompson introduces us to two Melbourne businessmen passionate about their hang-gliding. They’re out to break the world record recently set by an American. [read more]
‘We all need to keep calm’ (1997)
While making his deliveries, stock and station agent Bob (Bill Hunter) has spotted the car of the local policeman parked outside a neighbouring farmhouse. Interviewed later, he suggests the policeman should be ‘carpeted’ for dereliction of duty. His wife Gwen ... [read more]
Motivation to compete (1988)
In this clip Michael Talbot, acting deputy state manager of New South Wales, talks about Australia Post’s new private business competitors and how the organisation is dealing with becoming a commercially based enterprise. [read more]
John drives Tahmeena to town (2007)
Angry at Tahmeena for pointing a gun at him (in the previous scene), John (William McInnes) drives her towards town with the apparent intention of handing her over to the police. Tahmeena (Monic Hendrickx) becomes scared and hides inside the ... [read more]
Cecil de Milo (1939)
Mrs Chedworth (Rita Pauncefort) has chosen a new house befitting the social status to which she aspires – with statues and grand windows through which the neighbours can see her parties. Mr Chedworth (Cecil Kellaway) is disturbed at the speed ... [read more]
It’s like that (2003)
The animated short It’s Like That can be viewed here in full. Three baby-bird puppets representing actual children held in captivity talk about their experiences and their fears. [read more]
‘I want everything fixed!’ (1985)
Colin (Chris Haywood) has returned home after hospital treatment. He goes to the State Library to research the effects of Agent Orange, after reading news reports of American research implicating it in cancer and birth defects. Back home, he tells ... [read more]
Smile more? (1982)
The judges give their verdict on Bill, a self-taught pianist from Sydney, who has appeared on New Faces previously. Host Bert Newton weighs in. [read more]
Who are you? (1999)
The mysterious stranger Jobah (Samuel Johnson) and Princess Neri (Marnie Reece-Wilmore) learn more about each other. Neri explains why she helped him escape from her uncle’s prison and Jobah reveals that he is the Prince of Bandor. [read more]
Hurley’s composites (2004)
Photographer Frank Hurley achieved some of his greatest wartime photographs by combining several photos into one. Stephen Burton of the Australian War Memorial shows how it is done. Australia’s official wartime historian, Charles Bean, was outraged. He branded the photographs ... [read more]
Tom Roberts’s ‘Bailed Up’ (2004)
With its revolutionary approach to depicting the landscape and light, Tom Roberts’s Bailed Up is a painting that helped define Australia’s national identity. [read more]
Setting right a terrible wrong (1990)
At the end of their journey, Agnes (Melanie Boomer) and Ada (Christen Cornell) find an old baby crib and a box in a cave, In the box is a letter from Justus Zuckermann (Owen Weingott) in which he explains how ... [read more]
Scientists must validate their data (1994)
Mike (Zbych Trofimiuk) changes the readings on Shane’s (Che Broadbent) SETI project to trick him, then watches gleefully when Shane and Nikki (Petra Jared) think the radio telescope has picked up amazing radio signals. Tony Masters (Steve Jacobs) warns ... [read more]
‘Foiled again’ (1983)
Detective Tom Shannon (John McTernan) finally brings in Faith Bloomfield (Elaine Lee) after she is located treating homeless friends to an extravagant party at an expensive hotel. Back at the station, Shannon and Detective ‘JJ’ Jeffrey Johnson (Peter Adams) inform ... [read more]
Work and play (1925)
From a raised position, the camera films the children as they file off from school assembly and walk to class. They march in step with each other, forming perfect lines, and each row peels off as the other ends. This ... [read more]
A better life (1947)
This silent, black-and-white clip shows happy family scenes on a Housing Commission Estate in Richmond, Melbourne. The houses are made of brick. The family has a piano, tea set, a running indoor bath, and windows framed with curtains. The children ... [read more]
‘He’s a pretty thing’ (1982)
While her father is away mustering cattle, Jessica Harrison (Sigrid Thornton) goads new stock hand Jim Craig (Tom Burlinson) into breaking her father’s prized colt. Their romance blossoms as he demonstrates his great empathy with the horse. [read more]
Joey in pants (1936)
Hunters have killed Chut’s mother and scattered his mob. Desperate for food, Chut arrives at the Henton farm, where Mrs Henton (Ethel Saker) spots him at the gate. Tom Henton (Brian Abbot) fixes the frightened joey a new pouch, made ... [read more]
