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Menzies RG: Our Royal Visitors (1954)
This home movie, filmed by the Australian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, records the official visit by Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh to Melbourne in 1954. It shows the Queen and Prince Philip ... [read more]
Careful He Might Hear You (1983)
Since the death of his mother in childbirth, six-year-old PS (Nicholas Gledhill) has been raised by his aunt Lila (Robyn Nevin) and her husband George (Peter Whitford), in a modest suburban house near Sydney Harbour. The boy has never known ... [read more]
Opening of the Prahran-Malvern Tramway (1910)
This silent historical footage filmed by Millard Johnson and William Gibson captures the opening of the Prahran-Malvern Tramway, Victoria, on 30 May 1910. [read more]
Eugénie Sandler PI – Episode Two (2000)
Crooked detective Matt Gurney (Martin Jacobs) detonates the explosive planted in the Sandler home but Eugénie (Xaris Miller) and Warwick (Matthew Vennell) manage to escape. Tony (Darcy Bonser), a young street kid, offers to help them only for Eugénie and ... [read more]
Shell Animated Commercial: Poster Man (1960)
In this animated advertisement for Shell Motor Oil, a cartoon ‘poster man’ comically attempts to secure a Shell poster on the side of a building. [read more]
‘Don’t resist’ (2006)
Daniel (Tom Long) awakes in chains, with the sound of a music box and the lapping of water outside. He is terrified, but unable to move. Later that night, the three women show themselves and begin to caress his body. [read more]
Riot or Revolution (2005)
A partly dramatised documentary about the Eureka Stockade in colonial Victoria. The civil revolt was triggered by the government’s imposition of a gold licence for gold miners. The documentary consists of photographs and drawings of the event, some dramatic recreations, ... [read more]
Stolen Generations (2000)
A documentary using historical and interview footage to tell the story of three people removed as children from their families, who are now one of the many referred to as the Stolen Generations. The tapestry of life experiences is woven ... [read more]
Spotswood (1992)
In the dockside Melbourne suburb of Spotswood, business efficiency expert (Anthony Hopkins) tries to save a run-down moccasin factory that hasn’t made a profit for years. The boss, Mr Ball (Alwyn Kurts) has been selling off assets to keep his ... [read more]
The Instructional Guide to Dating (2005)
A smiling air hostess (Lara Cox) informs us as though giving in-flight safety instructions that we are ready to commence our dating adventure. She directs our attention to a departure board with ten exciting destinations, including: ‘How to Flirt with ... [read more]
‘The average man’ (1956)
This clip explains the methods used to design the new model FE Holden. A GMH employee holds a transparent plastic life-size model to demonstrate how the 'average man’ determines the proportions of the car’s interior. The car’s ... [read more]
Poor Man’s Orange (1987)
The story begins just a few years after the end of Harp in the South and continues the story of the Darcys, an Irish-Australian family, and their local community in Surry Hills, after the Second World War. It is a ... [read more]
Lionel Rose Wins the World Title (1968)
This is the radio call made over the telephone from Tokyo by Ron Casey describing Lionel Rose winning the world bantamweight boxing title from Japanese fighter Harada in 1968. [read more]
Spirit of Progress: Australia’s Wonder Train (1937)
The Spirit of Progress was Australia’s first completely air conditioned, streamlined, all-steel passenger train. This documentary details the train’s construction; its comfort and safety features; the opening celebrations headed by the Victorian Premier, Albert Dunstan; and the passenger train’s inaugural ... [read more]
‘I’m a bloody drover’ (1981)
This sequence shows the early morning ritual of the chief drover and his crew. They face yet another day of droving to keep the flock alive and moving from one waterhole to another along the long paddock. Apart from a ... [read more]
A Big Country – The Darcys of Mallapunyah (1981)
The Darcys have one of the last family owned and operated cattle stations in the Northern Territory. Their vast family ensures a constant supply of labour but could create future inheritance issues. [read more]
Three Dollars (2005)
Eddie Harnovey (David Wenham) gets the sack. His job as a chemical engineer for a government department is abolished after he refuses to rubber-stamp a large residential development on land contaminated with pesticide. Eddie contemplates his future as he remembers ... [read more]
Dirty War (2005)
The US has been invited by the Australian Government to use Shoalwater Bay near Rockhampton, Queensland as a training base. The film describes the pollution left by the US in the Philippines and asks if Australia will suffer from the ... [read more]
Curtin (2007)
John Curtin (William McInnes) assumes office as the 14th Prime Minister of Australia on 7 October 1941 after patiently allowing the former Liberal Government led by Robert Menzies to implode. Australia, as part of the British Commonwealth, is already at ... [read more]
CSIRO – Rabbits in Confined Populations Management Techniques (c1955)
A 16mm training film, produced c1955 by the CSIRO Film Unit for the Wildlife Survey Section, detailing procedures in field experimentation in rabbit population control. [read more]
