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At The Movies – Series 1 Episode 55, Little Fish (2005)
Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton review the latest cinema releases including The Perfect Catch and Wallace and Grommit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. There’s also a review of the remarkable feature length documentary Murderball and we see Cate Blanchett ... [read more]
1915 (1982)
Billy (Scott Burgess) and Walter (Scott McGregor) are mates. They’re young men from the bush always on the lookout for action and adventure. Walter is from a solid farming family while Billy has a dysfunctional family life and a drunken ... [read more]
Australasian Gazette – HMAS Brisbane Launched at Cockatoo Island (1915)
This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel shows the launch of the HMAS Brisbane naval ship by Mrs Fisher, wife of the then Prime Minister Andrew Fisher, on 30 September 1915, from the dockyard of Cockatoo Island. [read more]
At The Movies – Series 2 Episode 20, Ten Canoes (2006)
The man of steel is back in Superman Returns, the first film to be reviewed this week on the television magazine program presented by Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton, about the latest movie releases. There’s also a review of Tristram ... [read more]
Norforce Army Days at Hayes Creek, NT and Wyndham (1943)
This historical footage filmed by John Mack around 1943 captures Australian defence force personnel travelling on the old Ghan railway from South Australia to the Northern Territory. Mack also films some of the Australian landscape including the Devils Marbles and ... [read more]
SS Katoomba Unloading (1899)
This actuality footage from 1899 shows the unloading of timber spars from the SS Katoomba at a busy wharf in Brisbane. [read more]
North Shore Steam Ferry (1899)
This actuality footage shows a steam ferry docking at the Milsons Point Ferry Wharf in 1899. Bennelong Point, Fort Macquarie and Government House can be seen in the distance. [read more]
Cinesound Review: That Mersey Sound: Beatles at the Stadium (1964)
This is a Cinesound Review newsreel special on the Beatles’ tour to Australia and New Zealand in 1964. The first part of the newsreel shows the Beatles visiting Melbourne and Sydney and footage of thousands of screaming fans in both ... [read more]
The Cremation of a Balinese Chief at the Hotel Bali (c1930)
This silent actuality footage, filmed by Bastian Clasie, includes part of a Hindu cremation ceremony as well as scenes of Balinese villagers receiving vaccinations from a small medical team. [read more]
Australasian Gazette – Some Sunday Morning (c1920)
This Australasian Gazette newsreel from the 1920s shows a scene from 'some Sunday morning’ at St Kilda Beach, Melbourne. [read more]
St Kilda Esplanade 1914 (1914)
This short piece of actuality footage shows people at St Kilda in 1914, including at the entrance to Luna Park, Daylight Pictures Cinema and a jetty at the beach. [read more]
Always a Visitor (2000)
A personal journey by 30-year-old Turkish Australian Muslim Kuranda Seyit. He discusses his relationship with his father and his siblings, and talks about growing up in Emu Plains in Western Sydney. At the time he was called a 'wog’ at ... [read more]
Good Girls Do Swallow (2000)
Produced for the Lifestyle Channel, this documentary examines dieting women. Presented by Rachael Oakes-Ash, it takes a witty look at widespread dieting and its consequences. Personalities, people in the street, schoolgirls and experts are interviewed. Oakes-Ash performs a few comedy ... [read more]
Kylie Tennant (1986)
An interview with the writer Kylie Tennant (1912–1988), filmed at her home in Blackheath NSW, between February and May 1985. [read more]
Gold Gold Gold: 4 x 100 Metres Men’s Medley Relay (1980)
Norman May’s radio commentary of the 4 × 100 men’s swimming medley relay at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. [read more]
Newtown Railway Station (1899)
This actuality footage from 1899 begins with a static view of commuters meeting an incoming train at a railway station in Sydney’s inner west. The clip cuts to the view from the back of the train after it has passed ... [read more]
Curtin Speech: Japan Enters Second World War (1941)
Prime Minister John Curtin addresses the nation from Melbourne to inform them that Australia is now at war with Japan. This was the first occasion in Australian history that the nation had independently declared war on another nation. [read more]
Peach Growing and Canning in Australia (c1926)
This is a silent 15-minute industrial documentary which shows the fruit growing and canning industry at Leeton in the centre of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area. It illustrates various stages of the fruit preparation process including irrigating the area, cultivating the ... [read more]
Dame Nellie in the Mitchell Estate Garden, Lilydale (c1927)
This home movie filmed by Spencer Shier in 1927 features Dame Nellie Melba at her home, the Mitchell Estate Garden in Lilydale, Victoria. [read more]
Australasian Gazette – All for a Good Cause (c1920)
This Australasian Gazette newsreel footage from approximately 1920 shows a surf carnival at Bondi Beach, Sydney in aid of the St John’s Ambulance Brigade. [read more]
