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Message Stick – Blacktracker (1996)
Bernadette Yhi Riley narrates the story of her great-grandfather, Aboriginal tracker Alexander Riley, who served with the NSW Police from 1911 to 1950. We see Yhi Riley searching through archival records and talking with older family members and a ... [read more]
Double Trouble – Episode 1 (2007)
Double Trouble is about twin Indigenous girls, both born in Alice Springs but separated at birth and unaware of each other’s existence. The twins accidentally cross paths and decide to swap places. In this, the opening episode of Double Trouble, ... [read more]
High stakes (1946)
The cattle are dying of thirst. Desperate to find water, McAlpine heads them up over an old mountain pass that he knows. Mary (Daphne Campbell) leads them up but finds the path blocked near the top. If the cattle are ... [read more]
Tasmanian Tiger Footage (1932)
This silent black-and-white footage from 1932 contains some of the last known moving images of a living (now extinct) Tasmanian tiger, thylacinus cynocepalus or thylacine, that died alone in captivity at Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart. [read more]
Snapshots around ‘Madras’ (c1926)
This silent home movie footage filmed by Gordon Gidney captures family members in their back garden at their home ‘Madras’ in the Melbourne suburb of Mount Eliza. They are filmed waving, smiling and talking to the camera in a series ... [read more]
Persian cultural heritage (1944)
Traditional Persian arts and crafts are preserved by modern craftsmen in Iran who pass on this cultural heritage to the next generation. These include: intricate lacquerwork, the pictorial portrayal of ancient stories and legends, the making and decoration of pottery, ... [read more]
Dame Enid Lyons: Maiden Speech (1943)
Dame Enid Lyons reads her maiden speech in this sound recording for radio broadcast. Lyons was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives in Australia’s federal parliament. [read more]
Stone Forever (1999)
For Stone Forever, the director Richard Kuipers interviews many of the original Stone (1974) cast and films the 25th anniversary of the film in 1998. The filmmaker makes extensive use of the rich sources of stills, black-and-white footage from the ... [read more]
The construction of Island Bend Dam (1969)
The process by which Island Bend Dam, on the eastern side of the Snowy-Murray Development, was built is shown step by step. [read more]
Timber (1947)
This documentary about the timber industry in Victoria features several ways of hauling logs from the forest – by bullock teams, with wire pulleys, by tractor and by rail. It was made by Herschells Films and sponsored by the Shell ... [read more]
World class (2003)
This clip describes the constant disruptions to the boys’ preparation for an exhibition, and the discouragement of art as a vocation. Noel White’s daughter and excerpts from White’s diary describe the interference from the Native Welfare Department, and White’s concern ... [read more]
An outback emergency (1949)
In a dramatised scenario, an injured stockman is given urgent medical attention in remote Australia. It begins with ‘Skipper’ Partridge and a property owner who are notified of the situation. This then cuts to a woman on a pedal radio ... [read more]
Victorian Police Radio Patrol (c1931)
This is a short dramatised scenario made by Efftee Film Productions for the Victoria Police. It highlights the work of the Victorian Police Radio Patrol on the streets of Melbourne in the 1930s. [read more]
Australia Today – Man-Eater (1939)
This Australia Today newsreel looks at the ‘silent terrors of the deep’ – sharks. It begins on the beautiful beaches of Sydney, makes its way through the murky waters of the Georges River where terror strikes, and finally travels out ... [read more]
Incident at Raven’s Gate (1988)
Country police officer Taylor (Max Cullen) is investigating the theft of a football trophy. His search leads to Raven’s Gate, an isolated property that has witnessed a destructive cosmic happening. He is met there by Dr Hemmings (Terry Camilleri), a ... [read more]
What I Have Written (1995)
As Christopher Houghton (Martin Jacobs) lies in a coma in hospital after a stroke, his wife Sorel Atherton (Angie Milliken) tries to make sense of their troubled marriage. Christopher’s colleague Jeremy Flizsar (Jacek Koman) approaches Sorel with a request to ... [read more]
Who Wants to be a Millionaire? – Series 1 Episode 5 (1999)
Host Eddie McGuire recaps the previous evening’s episode and introduces carry-over contestant Rick, who attempts to increase his $32,000 win. Ten potential contestants then compete in a game of ‘fastest fingers first’ to answer a multiple choice question and gain ... [read more]
A Shifting Dreaming (1982)
A partly-dramatised documentary by Bob Plasto, which attempts to trace Indigenous and non-Indigenous relations through three significant events: the Coniston massacre in the Northern Territory in 1928 in which members of the Warlpiri tribe were killed, the resulting Federal Inquiry ... [read more]
McLeod’s Daughters – Welcome Home (2001)
After the death of her father Jack, Claire McLeod (Lisa Chappell) is trying to get on with running the family cattle station, Drover’s Run. But the business is in serious debt and the men on the station are not taking ... [read more]
Introducing the new capital of Australia (1929)
This clip shows the rural setting of Canberra in 1929, and features Old Parliament House and the Cotter Dam. [read more]
