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‘In your time there was the war’ (1985)
Mike (Daniel Cordeaux) is from 1985 and he just wants to go home, to Sydney. He thinks the Clan Murray are crazy hippies, but when they encounter some outsiders, the mutant wanderers, he is astounded as Katrin (Rebecca Rigg) shoots ... [read more]
McIlwraith, Peter: Brisbane Show and Moonbi Park (c1950)
This silent colour home movie, filmed by Peter McIlwraith, is of the annual Brisbane Exhibition (or 'Ekka’) in the 1950s. It features the showgrounds, crowds and rides, as well as footage of Moonbi Park and a family wedding party in ... [read more]
What is culture? (2004)
Warren H Williams and John Williamson singing a song beneath the shadow of Uluru. Warren H Williams explains what culture means to him. [read more]
Heartbreak High – Series 7 Episode 210 (1998)
School at Hartley Heights High is out for the very last time, but not before there is compromise, a sporting victory, personal growth and even a proposal. This episode continues the story of self-appointed bad guy Drazic (Callan Mulvey), facing ... [read more]
‘An Australian car is born’ (1948)
Once the sedan body has been completed, the final assembly takes place. Front and rear axels are fitted. New parts are constantly added as the car moves along the assembly line – the six cylinder motor, the dashboard, the headlights. ... [read more]
Dead Heart (1996)
When a young aboriginal man is found hanging in a police cell, Senior Constable Ray Larkin (Bryan Brown) allows his own deputy (Lafe Charlton) to be speared as payback. The tiny settlement of Wala Wala is soon in uproar again ... [read more]
Democracy in action (2006)
Standing in the House of Representatives Chamber in Old Parliament House, actor Michael Caton provides the context for early newsreels in Australia. This is followed by a Paramount Gazette newsreel from 1929 that shows ex-Prime Minister Stanley Bruce leaving Parliament ... [read more]
The switchover (1965)
A prosecutor (Kenric Hudson) interrogates robbery and murder suspect George Lister (Owen Weingott) in court. [read more]
City Traffic in Variable Moods (1920)
This is a whimsical item from a newsreel segment that shows the road and pedestrian traffic around the Flinders and Swanston St intersection in Melbourne, as well as a ride on a South Melbourne tram. It ends with a comedic ... [read more]
Commonwealth Film Laboratories (c1928)
This fragment from a silent documentary shows the processing of a reel of film at the Commonwealth Film Laboratories in Sydney. A film crew goes out to shoot a story and returns to the film laboratory where the film is ... [read more]
On Our Selection (1920)
Murtagh Joseph Rudd (Percy Walshe), known as Dad, and his son Dave (Tal Ordell) finish a bark hut on their newly established ‘selection’ of virgin bush. The rest of the family arrive and get to work, clearing the land by ... [read more]
‘My foot against the back of your neck’ (2001)
Jim Doyle (David Wenham) has been hired by Centabank to perfect his research into how to predict the stock market. The bank’s senior research analyst Vincent (Greg Stone) sets up a series of preliminary tests, but chief executive Simon (Anthony ... [read more]
Driving the cable (1988)
Historical footage shows the operation of Melbourne’s cable trams with voice-over explaining in detail how they were propelled by underground cable driven by steam boilers. The cable was in continuous rotation up to 18 hours a day. [read more]
Winners – The Other Facts of Life (1985)
Twelve-year-old Ben Guthrie (Ken Talbot) has a good life. His family are well off and his father Ron Guthrie (Dennis Miller), is a successful and ambitious butcher with big plans for expanding his business. There are some things however, that ... [read more]
Double Trouble – Episode 1 (2007)
Double Trouble is about twin Indigenous girls, both born in Alice Springs but separated at birth and unaware of each other’s existence. The twins accidentally cross paths and decide to swap places. In this, the opening episode of Double Trouble, ... [read more]
A lifelong ritual (1997)
Through illness, adolescence, travel, married life and old age, a woman (voiced by Arianthe Galani) recalls a lifelong ritual, started by her father when she was a baby, of taking a picture of herself every other day. [read more]
‘A genuine relationship’ (2008)
Narrator Rachel Perkins and interviewees Emeritus Scholar Inga Clendinnen and Associate Professor James Kohen impart the story of a cross-cultural relationship between Lieutenant Dawes and Aboriginal woman, Patyegarang. Readings of Dawes’s diaries reveal their conversations. [read more]
What is great writing? (2001)
Tensions in the newsroom come to the surface when Bernard Brewster (Jack Thompson) singles out David Meredith (Matt Day) for praise, citing an article that he has written in defiance of instructions from news editor Curtis Condon (Denis Moore). David’s ... [read more]
Razorback (1984)
The infant grandson of Jake Cullen (Bill Kerr) is carried off by a giant razorback boar near the outback town of Gamulla. Acquitted of murder for lack of evidence, Jake becomes obsessed with proving the creature exists. American animal rights ... [read more]
Mementos (2000)
The narrator (Clare Larman) recalls the time her father befriended a dog that was blind in one eye. She also talks about mementos of her father that she has retained. [read more]
