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‘We need lunch’ (1996)
Detectives Rachel 'Goldie’ Goldstein (Catherine McClements) and Frank Holloway (Colin Friels) take a break from interviewing their suspect. Over lunch, they rib each other about their various ex-spouses and Goldie suddenly remembers a school event for her son she was ... [read more]
Patineur Grotesque (1896)
This short piece of actuality footage shows a man in costume on rollerskates performing a comic act for a gathering crowd. [read more]
Harry’s War (2000)
Harry Saunders (David Ngoombujarra) prepares to go to fight for his country in the Second World War, but his fight is also for the rights of the Indigenous people. Harry carries the hope that fighting for his country will make ... [read more]
Australian Navy: Destroyers (c1930)
This short documentary made by Herschells Films features Royal Australian Navy destroyers launching torpedoes with dummy warheads attached for training purposes. It also shows a smokescreen created by one of the vessels, Anzac, to safeguard the larger vessel, Success. Torpedoes ... [read more]
Narbalek (2001)
An observational documentary about the Bordoh clan of Manmoyi, 200 km from Oenpelli, in Arnhem Land. Narbalek is part of the Nganampa Anwernekenhe series produced by Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) Productions. Nganampa Anwernekenhe means 'ours’ in the ... [read more]
Efftee Studio Opening in Melbourne: Speech by Frank Forde (1931)
This short promotional film, made by Frank Thring Senior’s production company Efftee Film Productions, records a speech made by Frank M Forde, then Minister for Trade and Customs, at the opening of Efftee Film Studios and the screening of the ... [read more]
Betrayal in the park (1991)
Andy (Russell Crowe) meets Celia (Geneviève Picot) at Martin’s house. She has not known of his existence in Martin’s life until just before this scene. She tells him that Martin is in the park, walking his dog. When he arrives ... [read more]
White River of Life (c1950)
The Milk Board of NSW commissioned this short film to promote the value of milk in the daily diet. It is mostly set during a class at Parramatta Girls’ Home Science School. The cooking teacher asks the class to ... [read more]
‘The strangest of all encounters’ (2000)
This clip, narrated by David Wenham, explores significant landmarks in the history of the interaction between Australian culture and the beach. [read more]
‘The things that keep us in business’ (1990)
In the workshop, the apprentice mechanic Gary (Ben Mendelsohn) shows Noel (Dennis Coard) what makes a good or bad car. Noel sends a finance company official away, when he tries to get Gary to sign a loan document. Steve (Frankie ... [read more]
The Singing Chef (1952)
In this mostly black-and-white cinema advertisement for Nestlé's packaged soups, entertainer Bobby Limb is a singing chef, impressing a table of guests for dinner. [read more]
Bapaume is burning (1917)
Mounted transport columns move up the Albert-Bapaume Road, skirting a large crater created by a German mine. The road runs beside a light railway line recently built by the Australian Pioneers (see clip one). A tank lumbers over the shell ... [read more]
‘Paradise is youth’ (1981)
After the coup has been foiled, Stacey (Ray Barrett) meets Cathy, the child/woman (Janet Scrivener), at a café. As her godfather, he had given her a golliwog, when she was eight. Now he buys her another and ruminates on what ... [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]
Hellfire Jack: The John Curtin Story (1985)
Produced on the centenary of John Curtin’s birth, Hellfire Jack: The John Curtin Story is an absorbing portrait of the life of the prime minister who led Australia for the vast majority of the Second World War. Hellfire Jack ... [read more]
Backlash (1986)
Police officers Trevor Darling (David Argue) and Nikki Iceton (Gia Carides) have to escort a young Aboriginal woman to the NSW outback to stand trial. Kath (Lydia Miller) is accused of murdering a publican (Don Smith) who tried to ... [read more]
‘A nut disguised as a screw’ (1974)
Bill (Robert McDarra) and inmate Richard (T. Richard Moir) plant a story with another prisoner that one of the patients has a knife and will attack Mr Cornish (Bill Hunter). Cornish searches the two Aboriginal inmates (Bob Maza and Zac ... [read more]
Stateline – The Transcontinental Dream (2004)
Reporter Mark Bowling travels with the Ghan on its inaugural train journey from Adelaide to Darwin, arriving in its new destination at the Northern Territory on 3 February 2004. [read more]
The New Adventures of Ocean Girl – Hearing The Call (1999)
Back on Oceana, after a three-year visit to Earth, Princess Neri (Marnie Reece-Wilmore), the ‘promised one’, has released her mysterious new friend Jobah from her uncle King Nemon’s (Dennis Pryor) prison and fled with him into the dreaded ‘tunnel of ... [read more]
The long yard (2000)
The Long Yard can be viewed here in its entirety. Through a series of flashback sequences, a hospitalised man recalls two vehicular accidents that he has been involved in. [read more]
