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Sam wakes up (1986)
It is morning in the share house. Tim (Nique Needles) is having breakfast. Sam (Michael Hutchence) wakes up and stumbles outside. A stranger (Deanna Bond) is sitting on the doorstep. [read more]
Jack and Bryan (1983)
In this 1983 documentary, Australian actors Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown talk enthusiastically about the reviving Australian film industry. [read more]
This child, Zita (2003)
Aggie Abbott tells of how, when Zita returned to her mother after years of being absent, her mother said that her daughter was dead. Ron Wallace, Zita’s husband, talks about Zita’s experience of being immersed within Western society and alienated ... [read more]
Jack Johnson training (1909)
In a medium shot, the camera films American boxer Jack Johnson training in preparation for a fight. A small crowd has gathered as Johnson warms up, wrestles and then practises with a sparring partner. A man with a stopwatch moves ... [read more]
Not so Fairweather (1990)
The quiet rural farmhouse, where the pregnant Clare Fairweather (Noni Hazlehurst) has been enjoying a nap, is instantly transformed into bedlam as the first visitors arrive amid a rainstorm. Clare’s female friends Sandy (Helen Jones) and Therese (Fiona Press) quickly ... [read more]
Prime Minister Andrew Fisher and King O’Malley (1913)
This clip shows prime minister Andrew Fisher and King O’Malley, minister for home affairs, laying a foundation stone each. There is a pan across the crowd in attendance. [read more]
New beginnings (1953)
Shot documentary-style, this early sequence shows the film’s four young Italian male migrants (Giuseppe Michelini, Luigi Borsi, Giuseppe Cusato, Giorgio Mangiamele) on deck and disembarking from their migrant ship in Melbourne. [read more]
‘Unpleasant fact number one’ (1985)
Harry Joy (Barry Otto) wakes up in a psychiatric hospital, after his family has bribed corrupt doctors to certify him. His friend and colleague Alex Duval (Tim Robertson) is already there, masquerading as the real Harry Joy. The hospital’s chief ... [read more]
Computer coding (1966)
The Redfern Mail Exchange’s impressive new computerised mail sorting system is displayed. It illustrates data entry relating to each postal item entered. [read more]
By plane (1988)
This is an Australia Post television commercial (TVC) advertising the Express Courier air service. [read more]
By road (1988)
This is an Australia Post television commercial (TVC) advertising the Express Courier road service. [read more]
‘But I didn’t want to be different’ (2001)
Still driven by the desire to fit in, Lisa (Phaedra Nicolaidis) angers Marlene (Maria Tusa) by ditching the basketball game for Roberta’s (Natalie Blair) party. Lisa attends the pool party confidently with newly straightened hair only to find out Roberta ... [read more]
Roma Street Station (1899)
This actuality footage shows a train pulling up to Roma Street Station, Brisbane in 1899. Commuters disembark and exit the platform via a side gate or walk up the stairs towards the camera. [read more]
‘Things to sort out’ (2006)
At the isolated farmhouse he has inherited, John (Mark Constable) hears voices from his past. He asks wife Emily (Victoria Hill) and son Edward (William Traegar) to stay at a motel while he sorts things out. [read more]
‘Something to fall back on’ (1981)
Michael’s father told young Michael that the world was divided into three groups, 'fools, crooks and gentlemen’. By deciding to be an artist (theatre director) young Michael fell into the fool category. His father argued medicine would give him 'something ... [read more]
Yaks in Tibet (1986)
Tibetan graziers move their families and yaks 30 to 40 kilometres for fresh feeding lands. They pay no taxes but support the local school teacher. [read more]
I just want to be a normal kid! (1997)
Performing again, Li’l Elvis (Stig Wemyss) wistfully looks out the door at his friend Lionel (Kylie Belling) playing marbles. WC Moore (Bill Ten Eyck) arrives and wins all the marbles by cheating. Meanwhile, when Li’l Elvis tells his parents he ... [read more]
‘A lot to talk about’ (1977)
Len (Bryan Brown) has come down to Sydney on the train, from Newcastle. In the cafeteria at Central Station, he asks Barbara (Kris McQuade) if she wants him back. [read more]
Captains (1987)
An intoxicated man sways before the camera. Three Aboriginal women walk into a games parlour in seedy Kings Cross. They sit at a table and check out the other patrons. Subtitles tell us about 'Captains’ – men who can be ... [read more]
‘We need you’ (1996)
Stockman Patrick (Robert Mammone) has broken the news to his girlfriend Becky (Maya Stange) that he is leaving town after a falling out with the McLeod sisters. He and the other staff are unwilling to take orders from a woman ... [read more]
