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Media Watch – Series 11 Episode 18 (1999)
Richard Ackland, journalist and lawyer, became the presenter of Media Watch in 1998, following the departure of Stuart Littlemore after eight years with the program. This episode covers the issue of ‘cash for comment’ – as it became known. It ... [read more]
White, AR: Tin Mining in Malaya (c1930)
This silent home movie footage, filmed by Arthur Reginald White in 1930s British Malaya, includes scenes of a tin mining plant; the open markets and streets of Kuala Lumpur; the Malayan Volunteer Corps in training and on parade; and examples ... [read more]
Albion, Douglas: Children’s Birthday Party (c1925)
A tinted home movie of family scenes in a garden and a children’s party celebration in the mid 1920s. It begins with a shot of the Albion family posing portrait style for the camera and then shows the father ... [read more]
Sons of Matthew (1949)
Irishman Matthew O’Riordan (John O’Malley) and his English wife Jane (Thelma Scott) have carved a farm from fickle acres at Deep Creek, in northern New South Wales. They battle drought, flood and fire to raise five boys and two girls. ... [read more]
General Motors Holden – Holden’s Got More Horses (1966)
This television advertisement for the 1966 'turbo-smooth’ Holden HR is squarely aimed at a male audience. [read more]
Crystal Voyager (1973)
A surfing biography about legendary design innovator and photographer George Greenough, shot largely in California. Greenough’s search for uncrowded waves drives his construction of a 37-foot ocean-going yacht that he claims is virtually unsinkable. With his surfing friends Richie West, ... [read more]
Australia Post – Post Office Spruce Up (1987)
This program, produced for in-house use aimed at individual post office managers, details the Australia Post ‘Spruce Up’ campaign. [read more]
General Motors Holden – Football, Meat Pies, Kangaroos and Holden Cars (c1976)
This colour television advertisement for Holden includes one of the most popular jingles of 1970s and ’80s Australian advertising. Voiced by radio and television personality Ken Sparkes, the ad features a montage of Australian icons including the national flag, native ... [read more]
Footscray 1911 (c1911)
This unedited actuality footage of Footscray in 1910 captures street scenes of daily life in the Melbourne suburb. The film is silent, without intertitles and filmed mostly with a static camera. [read more]
Treaty (1991)
This is an Aboriginal pop song from the 1990s with a powerful political message. [read more]
Secret Fleets (1995)
During the Second World War, submarines operated secretly out of Fremantle and Albany in the south of Western Australia. These were desperate times, when the Japanese advance had overrun Singapore and New Guinea. American submariners were welcomed by the citizens ... [read more]
Angst (1993)
The film looks at the lives of three Jewish comedians who are the children of Holocaust survivors. Deb Filler is from New Zealand, Sandy Gutman (Austen Tayshus) from Melbourne and Moshe Waldoks is from the USA. Each of the ... [read more]
No Fences, No Boundaries – Walter Burley Griffin (c1976)
A biography that examines the life and work of architect Walter Burley Griffin (1876 – 1937), based on the unpublished biography by his wife, Marion Mahony (1871 – 1961), 'The Magic of America’. Walter Burley Griffin moved to Australia after ... [read more]
Thanks Girls and Goodbye (1988)
Thanks Girls and Goodbye is the story of the Australian Women’s Land Army which was set up during the Second World War to keep Australian farms producing food for the war effort. The film uncovers the amazing story of the ... [read more]
Losing Layla (2001)
Michael and Vanessa decide to have a child. Vanessa is approaching middle age and she feels that this will be her last chance. Michael is ambivalent but agrees. Vanessa films the pregnancy to 'record how my need for a baby ... [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]
Metric Motoring (1974)
This title consists of two 60-second television advertisements explaining to motorists the national changeover from imperial to metric measurement. [read more]
Seven Deadly Sins - Envy (1992)
This one-hour drama is the sad and sordid story of two people eaten up with envy for what they can’t possess. The program is book-ended with iconic shots of the life and times of President Kennedy and his wife Jackie, ... [read more]
When the Lights Go Out: Cockroaches, a Domestic History (1994)
A documentary about the cockroach. Scientists talk about its survival instincts, families react to its presence and we go on a tour of a roach’s domestic life. The film consists of interviews, animation and graphics, people overreacting to the insect ... [read more]
Tatler News No 2, Dr Maloney MLA (c1934)
This newsreel item made by Frank Thring’s Efftee Film Productions features a speech by physician-cum-parliamentarian Dr William Maloney MLA. Dr Maloney expresses his concerns about social injustice and poverty, addresses the issue of women’s voting ... [read more]
