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The POW Street Adoption Scheme (1941)
In a direct address to the camera, Governor of Queensland Sir Leslie Wilson appeals to Queenslanders to support the Red Cross Prisoner of War Street Adoption Scheme. He appeals to individuals, communities and businesses to participate so that prisoners can ... [read more]
The judges pronounce (1980)
A serious yachtsman has invented a clever improvement to the winch used in yachting that he explains to the panel. They approve this as a very clever addition to the gadgetry of a racing boat. [read more]
Commonwealth Bank – Plan for the Future (c1950)
Plan for the Future is a black-and-white cinema advertisement, produced by David Koffel Productions for the Commonwealth Savings Bank. It targets young families, drawing an analogy between the importance of planning for the future of the nation, and planning for ... [read more]
Or Forever Hold Your Peace (1970)
A compilation of events concerning the moratorium to stop the Vietnam War in 1970. The film is an observational documentary without commentary that cuts between meetings, street protests, public speeches and concerts, and uses audio from a range of sources. [read more]
Evolution of the Australian Crawl (c1952)
This short documentary made by Kingcroft Productions presents the history of freestyle swimming from the 1880s and the gradual development of the Australian crawl, the fastest stroke in the world of competitive swimming. The film features former Australian swimming champions ... [read more]
National Treasures – ‘The Magic Pudding’ Illustrations (2004)
Warren Brown takes a look at Norman Lindsay’s original illustrations for the much-loved children’s book The Magic Pudding at the State Library of New South Wales. [read more]
Cricket in Australia (1987)
Jack Egan interviews cricket personalities and narrates this made for commercial television documentary about the history of cricket in Australia. Interviews with key personalities are intercut with extensive archival footage of cricket matches. [read more]
Activities of the Royal Aero Club of South Australia (c1935)
Filmed by John Mack at the Adelaide Parafield around 1930, this home movie recording captures some of the activities of the Royal Aero Club of South Australia. It includes footage of aircraft in flight and flying enthusiasts John Buckham and ... [read more]
The Sentimental Bloke (1919)
Bill, AKA 'The Kid’ (Arthur Tauchert), a larrikin from the Sydney dockside suburb of Woolloomooloo, gets a six-month sentence when he’s caught in a two-up game. After he’s released, he falls for Doreen (Lottie Lyell), an upright young woman ... [read more]
Bit of Black Business – Back Seat (2007)
Janine (Lille Madden) and her foster parents go to visit Janine’s real mother Elsie (Lily Shearer) and her other family members. Even though Janine is supposedly the centre of attention, it’s her foster mother Beverly (Zoe Carides) who speaks for ... [read more]
Breathing Under Water (1991)
A late 20th century Beatrice (Anne Louise Lambert), mother of a young child, keeps a map ‘dredged from her dreams’ in a copy of Dante’s Inferno. Prompted by questions from her young daughter Maeve (Maeve Dermody), and feeling unease with ... [read more]
The Jammed (2007)
Ashley Hudson (Veronica Sywak) works in an insurance company in Melbourne. By chance, she meets Sunee (Amanda Ma), a Chinese woman who believes her daughter may have been sold into prostitution. Ashley doesn’t want to get involved, but Sunee is ... [read more]
The storm (1980)
The narrator, Charlie (Alwyn Kurts), strolls along the beach and recalls what made the ‘green year’ of 1929 a defining moment in his life. Charlie age 14 (Darius Perkins) is woken in the night by his ailing Grandfather (Tom Farley), ... [read more]
Shaming the trunks (1993)
Flora (Anna Paquin) and the Maori children play a sexually suggestive game amongst the trees, watched by the Maori women. Mr Stewart (Sam Neill) stops Flora, telling her never to behave that way. He makes her scrub the trunks, during ... [read more]
High stakes (1946)
The cattle are dying of thirst. Desperate to find water, McAlpine heads them up over an old mountain pass that he knows. Mary (Daphne Campbell) leads them up but finds the path blocked near the top. If the cattle are ... [read more]
South of the Border (1987)
South of the Border looks at the role of music in the grass roots political protest movement in Central America. David Bradbury films various bands singing protest songs and talking about government oppression in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and ... [read more]
The Book Show – David Malouf (1988)
A magazine-style program with presenter and interviewer Dinny O’Hearn talking to David Malouf, who has just won the Haskell award for his body of work. He also interviews Joanna Mendelssohn about her new book on Lionel Lindsay, the lesser known ... [read more]
The Odd Angry Shot (1979)
After his 21st birthday, Bill (John Jarratt) goes to fight in Vietnam, as part of the Australian forces. He’s in the Special Air Services, elite professional soldiers who look down on the ‘nashos’, the conscripted troops. Bill’s best mate is ... [read more]
Snowy Hydro – The Snowy Flows Inland (1954)
Produced in 1954 by the Australian National Film Board, the film presents the aims and objectives of the Snowy Mountains Scheme and looks at the preliminary phase operations. [read more]
Through the Centre (1940)
Made by Herschells Films for the Shell Company of Australia, Through the Centre follows a Shell expedition to map a tourist route from Perth, through northern Western Australia to Darwin, then south through Central Australia to Adelaide. Along the way, ... [read more]
