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Australia at war with Japan (1941)
In a national broadcast Prime Minister Curtin announces that Australia is now at war with Japan. [read more]
Family time (1977)
Malcolm Fraser and his wife, Tammy, enter their living room. Two of their children are home from boarding school. The narrator states that Fraser returns home 14 hours after he left it and has more to do later. The family ... [read more]
Talking at the beach (2007)
A young woman’s grandfather has died and she has returned to Stradbroke Island to support her grandmother. Grandma (Freda Glynn) and her Granddaughter (Amy Miller-Porter) take a walk down to the beach at sunset. [read more]
Changeover at Mawson, 1960 (1961)
Work begins as soon as the ship Thala Dan arrives at Mawson Station, early in 1960. A total of 33 men are to spend a year in Antarctica at Australia’s first two bases, Davis and Mawson. At Mawson, they begin ... [read more]
David Williamson at La Mama (1994)
Australian playwright David Williamson recalls meeting his wife, Kristin, at La Mama Theatre Company where they were both performing. Kristin also recalls the tall awkward young David. Williamson talks about Australian plays being popular with contemporary audiences at a time ... [read more]
At home with the Churchills (1941)
This clip from a home movie filmed by the Australian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, begins with a title card that says ‘At home with the Churchills’ and shows footage of London during the Blitz in 1941 and Sir Winston ... [read more]
Santa at Anthony Hordern Pavilion (1929)
This clip from a silent black-and-white cinema advertisement for Anthony Hordern & Sons shows a crowd of 20,000 people welcoming Santa as he arrives by horse-drawn carriage at the Anthony Hordern Pavilion, Sydney. [read more]
‘We are at war’ (1985)
On 8 December 1941 John Curtin announces Australia is at war with Japan. He declares Australia must look to the United States rather than the United Kingdom for security. [read more]
Lord Birdwood at Hampton Court (1948)
This clip from a home movie filmed by Australian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, features a close-up of Lord Birdwood looking at the camera and presenting Hampton Court. [read more]
A shape at the window (1982)
Dr Barton (Alex Scott) tells Linda (Jacki Kerin) to forget the past. Returning to Montclare, Linda sees a figure at her bedroom window wearing her mother’s red dress. Housekeeper Connie (Gerda Nicolson) says only she and Lance (Charles McCallum) are ... [read more]
Love at first sight (2003)
Term has just ended at Rimside High School and students stream through the school gates. Last out is Beau. He’s melancholy at the thought of the lonely holiday ahead – that is, until he catches sight of Bec, the bike ... [read more]
The only Turk at school (2000)
Thirty-year-old Kuranda recalls his time at school in Emu Plains in Western Sydney where he was the only Turk in a school of 900 pupils. He was called a 'wog’ and 'gobble, gobble’ (Turkey). He even pretended to celebrate Christmas ... [read more]
Beach landing at Gallipoli (1915)
Australian long boats reach the beach at Gallipoli, early in the morning on 25 April 1915. Hundreds of men storm ashore under heavy fire from rifle and artillery. Many die on the beach, and are left behind as the Anzacs ... [read more]
Love at first sight (1996)
At a party in the Capulet mansion, Romeo (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Juliet (Claire Danes) meet for the first time. The couple cannot take their eyes off each other. Juliet is ushered away by her maid (Miriam Margolyes). [read more]
An evening at home (1950)
This is taken from a sequence depicting the domestic routine of a family evening spent at home. Clarke arranges it into a narrative which begins with a train pulling into Wahroonga station, and includes scenes of shopping, driving, cooking, and ... [read more]
A truce at Gallipoli (2005)
Only a few weeks after the 25th April 1915 landing at Anzac Cove, the troops of both sides organised an unofficial truce in order to pick up their wounded, bury the dead and share a cup of tea. [read more]
Lucky strike at Larkinville (1938)
Western Australia, 1932. Two gold prospectors – Jimmy Eastwood and Jack Hogan – along with their dog, Spot, strike gold at Larkinville. For Spot, this is more a ‘comedy of fleas than a saga of riches’, but for the two ... [read more]
Manly pursuits at Bondi (1954)
At Bondi Beach, the Queen observes an Australian surf carnival, a gathering of teams from surf clubs around the country and New Zealand, all wearing the traditional neck-to-knee surfing costume that was required just after the turn of the century, ... [read more]
Country talent starts at 10 years old (1995)
Ten-year-old Chantelle Delaney has come from Toowoomba in Queensland to compete at the Tamworth Country Music Festival. [read more]
Holmes, Mr WGA: Locals Cool Off at the Weir, Theodore (c1940)
This home movie filmed by WGA Holmes contains 17 segments filmed between 1940 and 1953 mostly in and around Theodore, Queensland. It includes footage of people bathing at the Theodore weir; mechanical and manual cotton harvesting; and beekeeping and ... [read more]
