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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]
Fanny Smith’s Tasmanian Aboriginal Songs (1899)
These are some of the earliest recordings ever made in Australia, a sound recording of the traditional Tasmanian Aboriginal songs and language from this period. Sung by Fanny Smith, the songs were recorded by Horace Watson in 1899 and 1903 ... [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]
Razorback (1984)
The infant grandson of Jake Cullen (Bill Kerr) is carried off by a giant razorback boar near the outback town of Gamulla. Acquitted of murder for lack of evidence, Jake becomes obsessed with proving the creature exists. American animal rights ... [read more]
Friday on My Mind (1966)
‘Friday on My Mind’ is considered one of the greatest ever Australian pop songs and made the Easybeats an enduring name in the pop and rock world. [read more]
Rebetika: Songs of Greece (1986)
An album of Rebetika music, a style originating in Greece in the 1920s. 'Rebetika: Songs of Greece’ was recorded in 1986 by a group of young Greek-Australians who, in the late 1970s in Melbourne, began to immerse themselves in Rebetika ... [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]
Brisbane Dreaming (1994)
This documentary is about the original Indigenous custodians of the Brisbane area. [read more]
Super 8 Soldiers (1991)
In the 1960s a group of Australian conscripts took 8 mm cameras to Vietnam. Super 8 Soldiers intercuts that footage with interviews with the men and their families in the early 1990s. The Vietnam veterans reflect on the war, the ... [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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Uncivilised (1936)
Beatrice Lynn (Margot Rhys), a successful novelist, journeys into the ‘unexplored’ reaches of north-west Australia in search of book material. She has heard rumours of a ‘wild white man’ who lives with Aboriginal people, but she finds more than she ... [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]
