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‘What do I see? Afternoon tea!’ (1990)
A new animated sequence brings Mr Squiggle’s rocket to earth. Meanwhile Rebecca (Hetherington) is setting up afternoon tea. Rocket touches down and Mr Squiggle (voiced by Norman Hetherington), with umbrella parachute, lands soon after. They call Blackboard to come and ... [read more]
Wrap Me Up in Paperbark (1999)
The family of a Gurindji woman work to have her remains returned to her traditional country after she was buried in Larrakia country. [read more]
Clowns and their Make-Up (1985)
The documentary covers many aspects of clown make-up particularly for children. Subjects covered include make-up, design, eyelashes, wigs, clown eggs and pom-poms. [read more]
Tough love (2011)
Released from prison the day before, Karen (Shai Pittman) wakes up in a motel room to the sound of the cleaners at the door. Feeling sick from the night before, Karen quickly dresses and lets them into the room. As ... [read more]
‘A little sign of love’ (1969)
A woman and a man walk separately through a park as a song about Milk Tray chocolates plays over the soundtrack. The lovers see each other, come together to kiss then the man hands the woman a box of Milk ... [read more]
Mother and son (1977)
Len’s mother (Joy Hruby) is upset that he is leaving home, to live in Sydney with his wife Barbara. Len (Bryan Brown) broods in his room, after she tells him he’s a no-hoper like his father. He picks up an ... [read more]
Sisterly love (1997)
Gertie Skalsky, the elder sister, and Judy Machum, the younger sister, are now in the afternoon tea of their lives. As Jewish teenagers they survived concentration camps and now express boundless love for each other. [read more]
‘I love gravity’ (2006)
Mumble (voiced by Elijah Wood) has been expelled from the colony. His dancing upsets the elders, but he finds that Adelie penguins have a much more open attitude. His new best friends – five party-loving Argentinean Adelies, led by the ... [read more]
Childhood remembered (2005)
Black-and-white photos of the parents of the filmmaker, Colin and Gloria Johnston. Both parents recount their childhood, and when they first met. [read more]
The break-up (1979)
Cath (Lorna Lesley) comes home after spending the night with another man. She tries to communicate with Mike (Sam Neill) but he doesn’t want to talk. Next morning he suggests they break-up. [read more]
Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate – ‘A Little Sign of Love’ (c1969)
This 30-second black-and-white television advertisement for Cadbury’s Milk Tray chocolates dates from the late 1960s or early 1970s. [read more]
Skin (2005)
The old women sit in the sand, the younger women next to them. The old women draw the skin system – or the lores of marriage – in the sand. The younger women are being taught the right skin groups ... [read more]
Before white people (2005)
Black-and-white photographs of the two Nanas when they were younger women, with babies in arms. The sequence of photographs with voice-over tells us of the first time they ever saw white people. [read more]
Ngadjonji country (2005)
Bill Homenko, an elderly descendent of Russian immigrants talks to camera about his childhood recollections. Ngadjonji country, around Rosser River, is the thousand-year-old home of Kitty Clarke’s people. Historical stills are intermixed with re-enactments of Kitty Clarke’s mother’s first glimpse ... [read more]
‘The native problem’ (2005)
Historical footage of a newsreel titled The Native Problem in Queensland depicts John Bleakley, Chief Protector of Aborigines, removing Indigenous people to the mission reserves. [read more]
‘Voices in the dark’ (2006)
John (Mark Constable) believes he has seen Tom (Don Barker), his dead uncle. He hides his thoughts from wife Emily (Victoria Hill), who begins to suspect something is wrong. [read more]
Post Office makeover (1987)
This clip shows the newly refurbished interior of Lakemba Post Office in Sydney, followed by the sprucing up of a similarly older style post office. [read more]
Maurice Chevalier impression (1931)
On a stage inside Frank Thring’s Efftee Film Studios, veteran stage performer Minnie Love impersonates French comedian and singer Maurice Chevalier singing the songs 'Valentine’ (1924) and 'On Top of the World, Alone’. [read more]
Growing up with theatre (1997)
Wole Soyinka grew up with the traditional theatre of Nigeria. He became attracted to creating theatre in both the African and British traditions, although he insists he didn’t set out to blend the two. His own work is a product ... [read more]
‘Wake up, ya mongrel’ (1988)
Alice (Bennendine Woods) is hitchhiking and a ute stops to pick her up. When she sees classmate Mick (Donald Dale) already in the car, she reluctantly gets in. The driver is drunk, tired and driving erratically. When he refuses Alice’s ... [read more]
