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Be our guest (1968)
In the pre-titles teaser Clancy (Liza Goddard) gallops on horseback through beach and bush amidst the usual array of featured Australian animals, including a snake which spooks her horse. She falls heavily, observed by a group of Aboriginal men (members ... [read more]
Heroic deeds (1928)
Billy has saved a fellow recruit from drowning, so his commander gives him a reward, a history book Australia and the World War, written by SH Perry. Billy becomes absorbed, reading before lights out in his bunk beside his best ... [read more]
Always adapting (2009)
Bee pathologist Dr Denis Anderson is visiting one of the largest apiaries in the world. Investigating hives with an American keeper, Denis finds that they are all infested by the Varroa mite. The keeper and Denis explain that the mites ... [read more]
Menzies home movies (2006)
This montage of clips from the Menzies Home Movie Collection features footage from Menzies’ wartime tour in 1941, including Tobruk, Palestine, Cairo, Jerusalem, Khartoum and England during the Blitz. It ends with close-ups of the ‘Rulers of England’ including the ... [read more]
Redex Trials (1978)
Cameraman Len Maguire (Bill Hunter) and assistant Chris (Chris Haywood) rush ahead of the entrants in the round Australia Redex Trials to capture footage. They set up at a dangerous corner to wait for the cars. When one crashes, the ... [read more]
Rae tries to slow the boat (1989)
Rae (Nicole Kidman) shuts off the engine and takes the key. Hughie (Billy Zane) tries to get it back but she’s too quick for him. Unfortunately, the dog is even quicker. [read more]
Insulin (1997)
Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Company supplies six million people with insulin each day. Twelve-year-old diabetic James Jarvis interviews Dr Richard Di Marchi about insulin. [read more]
The role of the public servant (1970)
Dr HC Coombs, the great Australian public servant and advisor to six Australian prime ministers, talks about whether it’s possible to be an entirely neutral public servant. [read more]
The floral parade (1953)
Thousands of onlookers welcome the carnival queen float which leads the carnival procession down Toowoomba’s main street. The float is followed by the RSL float. An occasional voice-over commentary and lively musical score accompanies the rest of ... [read more]
On the road (1987)
Buster (Rebecca Smart) the city kid has been kitted out for her new life in the bush and her father (Bryan Brown) is setting a cracking pace as they walk to his next farm job because, as he says, 'if ... [read more]
The strike spreads (1917)
‘Produce Merchants’ unload perishables from a ship on the docks, possibly part of the New South Wales General Strike of 1917. [read more]
A new sisterhood (1978)
In a montage of footage from 1970s feminist films, interlaced by narration and music, the clip proposes the notion of a new sisterhood. [read more]
‘Nothing to call our own’ (1977)
Jack and Gary, two drifters in a stolen car, have picked up a young woman, Anna (Julie McGregor) at an outback service station. At Gary’s home reserve, Anna talks to an Aboriginal woman (Essie Coffey) about the causes of Aboriginal ... [read more]
‘The Butchers of Invermay’ (1978)
Using still photographs, personal narration, quoted correspondence and music, the mid-20th century history of the maternal side of the filmmaker’s family is detailed. [read more]
The police arrive (1981)
The members of the band No Fixed Address leave for their gig. During their performance the police arrive. [read more]
‘Brussels sprouts’ (2005)
Still photographer Carol Jerrems made a short film in 1975 featuring 15-year-old schoolboys from Heidelberg Tech. Most of them had been expelled and, in Carol’s words, preferred ‘bashing, beer, sheilas, gang bangs, gang fights, billiards, stealing and hanging about’. [read more]
The Barossa Valley (1983)
Strolling around his winery, Hermann Thumm talks to the filmmaker, telling the story of how he founded the successful vineyard Chateau Yaldara after the Second World War when he emigrated to the Barossa Valley in South Australia. German winegrowers remain ... [read more]
‘No killing, no injuries, no mines’ (2004)
This clip is taken from the last few minutes of the film. Habiba is a victim of a landmine in Afghanistan who now has an artificial leg as a result. She speaks movingly about her wish for an end to ... [read more]
Ace of parsons (1934)
Rev Stanhope (Eric Colman) flies Eileen McBride (Isabelle Mahon) back to the McBride farm. He is a flying ace from the First World War, who now uses a light plane to visit his spread-out parishioners. Eileen brings news from England, ... [read more]
Sharing culture and country (2002)
A clip from Mike Willesee’s The Hunting Party (1990) shows David and others in a swamp hunting for goanna. The group convince Willesee to enter the water on the premise of there being no crocodiles. Gulpilil in voice-over tells us ... [read more]
