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Tactics (2007)

The navy step up their operation to catch Rick Gallagher (Martin Lynes) and his shipment of deadly toxins before they leave Australian waters. At headquarters, Commander Steve Marshall (Steve Bisley) discovers his trace on Gallagher’s ship has been lost. Meanwhile, ... [read more]

Crime scene (2002)

The Kingsway major crime squad try to make sense of the crime scene, after the groom was gunned down at a wedding. Outside, Harriet Walker (Freya Stafford) speaks to the bride Francesca Decia (Bianca Biasi) while Sophia Marinkovitch (Brooke Satchwell) ... [read more]

Science, technology and research (1962)

This television advertisement highlights General Motors Holden’s research and training programs, apprenticeships, cadetships and scholarships, and the contribution they make to help Australia 'meet the challenge of the times’. Explanatory voice-over narration accompanies footage of workers and researchers in factories, ... [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]

‘Would you stay with me tonight?’ (2000)

After they’ve witnessed the disinterment of Andreas’s wife’s grave together, Andreas (Charles Tingwell) and Claire (Julia Blake) walk on the pier at sunset. Andreas asks Claire to stay with him overnight and she agrees without hesitation. They go to his ... [read more]

Vote YES for Aborigines (2008)

The Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI) has fought for the rights of Aboriginal people to be recognised in line with other civil rights movements occurring overseas. A referendum is called in 1967 ... [read more]

‘Peculiar indeed’ (1989)

Retracing the footsteps of explorer Ernest Giles, Ted Egan visits ‘one of the true marvels of the centre’, a valley that Giles called ‘Glen of Palms’. The valley is home to a species of palm tree that exists nowhere else ... [read more]

Winging it (1998)

You can view the animated short film Winging It here in its entirety. A young man (voiced by David Brown), far from home, writes to his family in Australia. The desert of Jordan reminds him of his grandfather who fought ... [read more]

Delivering paper for printing (1928)

Three men help roll large sheets of printing paper off the back of horsedrawn transport standing at the printing room’s entrance. The paper is placed on machines which rewind the sheets to ensure smooth running through the rotary printing press. ... [read more]

Reporting current events (1928)

A car pulls into frame with three reporters seated in the back. The reporters, returned from witnessing a fire, dictate the story to typists in the typing room. The typists busily type up the story at their desks. This clip ... [read more]

The photographic room (1928)

In what appears to be a photographic room, a man delivers a plate to be processed. It is heated over a panel and then placed in a press. It is then carried over to an enclosed box possibly containing developing ... [read more]

The Vegies meet the Pioneers (1974)

The townsfolk of Paris gather at the annual Pioneer’s fancy dress ball. Doctor Midland (Kevin Miles) brings his patients, the so-called vegies, for a dance. These are part of the town’s road carnage harvest. The mayor (John Meillon) makes a ... [read more]

Families (1985)

Carol is making coffee for Angie (Alyssa Cook) in the kitchen with her mother Alison Trig (Veronica Lang). Peter Trig (Terence Donovan) won’t let the rather overawed Angie walk home so drives her. Angie gets out at a fake address ... [read more]

Pop star (1990)

Wilton grants CW’s wish to be the most exciting person in the whole world in order to induce Katie (Ebony Ricketson) to fall in love with him. Instantly, CW is a famous rock star with a gigantic hit song ‘The ... [read more]

An ancient land (1976)

Bill Peach takes us for a meander through the Flinders Ranges of South Australia. Along the way, we learn that the white squatters who settled the area in 1851 welcomed the artist Hans Heysen to stay with them while he ... [read more]

Traditions and customs (1959)

To give a feast for the visiting Commissioner, the villagers use vines to catch thousands of fish. It is a community effort, with each villager given a role. They make a big circle around part of the lagoon and tie ... [read more]

Pioneer tour bus trip (1946)

This clip begins with a Pioneer tour bus pulling away from the camera and driving along a dirt road in the bush. The camera then films the bus from another angle as it passes through similar landscape. The next shot ... [read more]

‘The car from Australia’ (1962)

Holden cars at the shipping docks await export to overseas markets. A voice-over chronicles the expansion of the Holden brand to 46 territories outside Australia, including New Zealand, Thailand, Singapore, Malaya and North Borneo. We see Holden cars in some ... [read more]

‘A great partnership’ (1942)

A family sits around the breakfast table after son Ted has finished his night shift at the munitions factory. His mother tells him how proud she is of both her sons – one in the armed forces fighting overseas on ... [read more]

Stopped by a cop (2007)

After nearly hitting a police vehicle while reaching down to switch on the radio, John (Travis McMahon) is stopped by the cop (Bryan Brown), who breathalyses him but doesn’t realise there is a kidnapped man in the boot. The cop ... [read more]

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