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Crocodile Dreaming (2006)
The removal of a sacred stone turns one small community in Arnhem Land upside down. Burrimmilla (David Gulpilil) returns to his homeland and, along with his estranged brother Charlie (Tom E Lewis), embarks on an epic quest to find the ... [read more]
Young Ramsay – Natural Selection (1979)
Young Ramsay is about the adventures of veterinary surgeon Peter Ramsay (John Hargreaves). Disillusioned with the ways of the high-powered horseracing world in which he previously worked, Ramsay joins a country practice in the fictional town of Jindarra, somewhere on ... [read more]
Picturesque Portsea Provides Perfect Pageant (c1926)
This silent footage features a newsreel segment, filmed by Gordon Gidney, of bathers and holiday-makers on Portsea Beach in the 1920s. Intertitles are used throughout. [read more]
Frontline (1979)
A biographical documentary about the working life of combat cameraman and correspondent, Neil Davis (1934–1985). The former Tasmanian went to Vietnam in 1974, working for the London based Visnews. He worked alone filming the Vietnam War and continued on into ... [read more]
Snowy Hydro - Where Giants Meet (1948)
Produced in 1948 by Cambridge Film Productions for Industrial Sales and Service (ISAS) and the SMHEA, the film is both a domestic recruitment promotion for the Snowy Mountains Scheme and an ode to the International TD-24 bulldozer. [read more]
Piano Making (c1924)
A silent, black-and-white, promotional film presented by the Made in Australia Council that shows the manufacture and assembly of Australian-made pianos. It ends with the slogan ‘wherever you trade, buy Australian Made’. The film uses intertitles to describe the manufacturing ... [read more]
Stingers – Ratcatcher (1998)
When a country schoolgirl goes missing after babysitting for a family called the Gallaghers, police suspect Ronnie Gallagher (John Brumpton) of foul play. Unable to find evidence, they turn to the undercover unit for help. Peter Church (Peter Phelps) and ... [read more]
‘The playgrounds of laughing children’ (1931)
This clip begins along the banks of the Yarra River in Melbourne followed by a view of the Princes Bridge. The next tracking shot enters Melbourne’s Botanical Gardens and shows people enjoying the lakes, ponds and park areas. The clip ... [read more]
Toora Vale Ice Company, Berri: Welcome Mr Ice Man (c1934)
This cinema advertisement for Toora Vale Ice Company promotes the use of block ice for refrigeration to preserve and cool food. [read more]
A Mountain Goes to Sea (1943)
This is a short documentary made by Charles and Elsa Chauvel for the Commonwealth Department of Information about shipbuilding during the Second World War and the thousands of iron and steel workers contributing to the war effort. [read more]
Jungle Patrol (1944)
Eight Australian soldiers leave Port Moresby in New Guinea on an American C-47 transport. They are returning to their unit, pushing the Japanese back along Shaggy Ridge, part of the Finisterre Range, west of Lae, in 1943. The soldiers land ... [read more]
Brother (1999)
The narrator (voiced by William McInnes) tells the story of his larrikin, asthmatic brother. Brother features their parents and the suburban world they live in. [read more]
My Brilliant Career (1979)
During the drought of 1898, headstrong and vivacious Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis) dreams of escaping the drudgery of farm life for a career as a writer. On an extended visit to her aristocratic grandmother (Aileen Britton), she meets Harry Beecham ... [read more]
Brides of Christ (1991)
A miniseries for television about the lives of a group of women, some of whom are part of a teaching order of nuns and some of whom are the students being taught by those nuns. It’s the late 1960s, a ... [read more]
My South Polar Expedition (1910)
Sir Ernest Shackleton and four men, with four Manchurian ponies, attempted to be the first to reach the South Pole in 1908. In this recording, he tells how the loss of the last pony almost killed one of the men ... [read more]
Walkabout (1970)
After a setback in Sydney, a man drives into the outback with his two English children, a girl of 16 (Jenny Agutter) and her younger brother (Lucien John). The father (John Meillon) tries to shoot them; when he fails, he ... [read more]
Sylvania Waters – Episode 5 (1992)
This documentary series follows the lives of Noeline Baker and Laurie Donaher in their waterfront home in the south of Sydney, over a period of several months. Noeline and Laurie have been in a de facto relationship for 14 years ... [read more]
Beyond 2000 – Episode 152 (1989)
A magazine-style program featuring the latest in technology and medical breakthroughs from around the world, with Iain Finlay as the overall presenter. In this program, reporter Amanda Keller is in Japan to explain a robot mannequin that may change shopwindows ... [read more]
Syme, Ken: Melbourne Olympic Games (1956)
The 1956 Olympic Games, held in Melbourne, was a high profile event for the city. Like many ordinary Australians at the time, Ken Syme took home movie footage of the event. His silent, colour footage captures the street celebrations and ... [read more]
McLeod’s Daughters (1996)
The daughters of Jack McLeod (Jack Thompson), cattle-station owner, have not seen each other since childhood when his second wife left him for the city, taking their child Tess Silverman (Kym Wilson) with her. Tess’s half-sister Claire McLeod (Tammy MacIntosh) ... [read more]
