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How democracy actually works (2001)
You can watch How Democracy Actually Works here in its entirety. In this episode of Leunig Animated, narrated by Sam Neill, Leunig’s little Man learns how our votes really count in the political process. [read more]
Solo dance on Bungan Beach (1936)
A solo dancer performs a dramatic contemporary dance routine on the shoreline of Bungan Beach. His routine contains arm gestures and facial expressions as well as leaps and lunges. As he dances, the ocean water licks his feet. The clip ... [read more]
‘Horses don’t like salads’ (1936)
Tommy (Frank Leighton) refuses offers of help from his fiancé Joan (Helen Twelvetrees) and his mother (Nellie Ferguson), both of whom know more about horses than he does. He decides to feed Stormalong, his new thoroughbred, on spinach and celery, ... [read more]
Wupa (1999)
Shots of landscape around Tennant Creek. The women sit near the creek named Juan Wargal, where they talk about land, children and the Dreaming. Wupa is the name of the dam, and the hill is called Dinkali. [read more]
The silly faces of George Wallace (1999)
Stand up comic and film star George Wallace struts his stuff in this compilation of his film roles. [read more]
Postcode squares (1988)
This is an Australia Post television commercial (TVC) promoting the organisation’s new corporate image and its new electronic systems of sorting mail. [read more]
Grange 51 (2005)
A young Koori boy, Willy Jackson is on the stand. Sam (Aaron Pedersen) is his defense lawyer. It becomes clear that the magistrate is unsympathetic to Sam’s position. Sam offers the magistrate his non-existent bottle of vintage Grange 1951 as ... [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]
Myanmar’s child soldiers (2002)
Myanmar contains one of the greatest concentration of child soldiers in the world. Rebel groups like the KLNA (Karen Liberation Army) are in conflict with government forces along the Myanmar-Thai border. ‘Hoh’ is a former child soldier who deserted ... [read more]
Under pressure (2000)
Pressure mounts for workers Trieu (Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hien), Uncle Le (Hieu Phan), Yen (My Lingh Thi Nguyen) and Linh (Suong Tran) as the day wears on in the garment factory and unexpected mishaps threaten the delivery. Trang (Deborah Le) ... [read more]
Dipping sheep (1899)
A farmer pushes sheep underwater with a plunger as they pass through an arsenic sheep dip. [read more]
Startled away (1998)
Della (Ursula Yovich) sits on the floor next to a guitar. Alvin (Trevor Jamieson) comes home, and quietly attempts to get on the swag with his promise wife. He climbs onto the swag beside her ever so carefully. Della stirs, ... [read more]
Crying (1997)
Lena (Jamilla Frail) and Vaughn (Luke Carroll) walking on the road. A car pulls up. Vaughn talks to the driver, his friend (Allan Campbell). Lena stands a little distant, disinterested. She looks into the car to see a young mother ... [read more]
Avon Dam (1927)
This clip begins with members of the Archibald family and their friends walking towards the camera across a wooden bridge. Among the family members present are John Ernest Archibald, his wife Ellen Kay Archibald and children John Muir and Helen ... [read more]
‘My babies’ (2004)
Toma is both passionate about his eggplants and keen to show off his invention, an ingenious machine which helps with the picking. His wife works along side and afterwards it’s home to the barbie where both of them explain one ... [read more]
Missionaries of lifestyle (1996)
Elijah Bennett directs a troupe of four New Guineans as they perform in remote villages promoting Western products. Coca Cola is a big hit with the villagers. [read more]
I’ll walk (2002)
Shane (John Moore) and Robby (Wayne Munro) have just been thrown out of a hotel, and now walk the streets of Alice Springs. Shane doesn’t want to walk home and breaks into a car. Shane harasses Robby to get into ... [read more]
Mercenaries, misfits and missionaries (1996)
Peter Barter, the Governor of Madang Province, comments that democracy thrives in Papua New Guinea after twenty years of independence. [read more]
Devils Marbles (1943)
Naturalist Philip Crosby Morrison is filmed setting up his camera at the Devils Marbles in the Northern Territory. He inspects some swallows nests under a rock overhang, walks through the formations and large boulders and is shown filming with his ... [read more]
‘I interfaced with your primitive circuitry’ (2000)
Cybergirl (Ania Stepien) and Jackson (Craig Horner) get to know each other as Cybergirl demonstrates her superpowers by influencing the electrical equipment in the bus. [read more]
