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General Motors Holden – A Great New Feeling (1969)
This is a black-and-white television advertisement for the 'new generation’ 1969 Holden Kingswood. [read more]
General Motors Holden – Happy in a Holden (1962)
This television advertisement is a short interview with a satisfied Holden driver and his family in the parking lot outside a Collingwood-Hawthorn AFL game. [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 – John Fisher, Another Holden Driver (1962)
TV personality and sports commentator Tony Charlton conducts a short interview with Hawthorn winger and satisfied Holden driver John Fisher in the parking lot outside a Collingwood-Hawthorn AFL game. [read more]
General Motors Holden – The Time is Now (1966)
This television advertisement for the 1966 'turbo-smooth’ Holden HR is aimed at a female audience. [read more]
General Motors Holden – Holden’s Number One (c1966)
This is one of a series of black-and-white television advertisements for the Holden HD which use the 'Holden’s Number One’ jingle. [read more]
At Footscray a Church is Pulled Down (1911)
This Pathé Freres Australian Animated Gazette newsreel item shows a small church in Paisley Street in Footscray, Melbourne. It is being prepared for demolition to make way for a new cinema, the Grand Picture Theatre. [read more]
Footscray 1971 (1971)
This unedited actuality footage of Footscray, Melbourne, in 1971 features the suburb’s main streets (including shopfronts, traffic and crowds), a Ferris wheel at the opening of Nicholson Mall, mothers and their children gathered for a baby competition, crowds outside the ... [read more]
Federal Capital Commission: Anti-Fly Campaign (c1928)
In 1929 the Federal Capital Commission’s Health Department launched a campaign to reduce blowfly and housefly numbers in Canberra. This public relations film produced by the Commission explains its anti-fly campaign. It depicts a series of familiar situations in which ... [read more]
Sewerage of a Great City: Melbourne (c1922)
This sponsored documentary highlights the achievements of the Melbourne Board of Works in laying sewers underneath the city in 1922. It includes footage of pipes being laid in Brunswick and Camberwell South (clip one), the outfall sewer near Kororoit Creek, ... [read more]
The Growing Child (1938)
This government-produced public health film promotes the role of correct diet and nutrition in giving children the best start in life. It depicts dramatised scenarios in the lifespan of a growing child – from baby to toddler, adolescent and teenager ... [read more]
Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate – ‘Remember ... Cadbury’s Milk Tray’ (c1955)
These two black-and-white television advertisements for Cadbury’s Milk Tray chocolates date from the 1950s. [read more]
Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate – ‘For All the Different Women You Are’ (c1970)
This 30-second black-and-white television advertisement for Cadbury’s Roses chocolates dates from the late 1960s or early ’70s. [read more]
Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate – ‘You’ve Got Yourself a Man’ (c1970)
These three 30-second black-and-white television advertisements for Cadbury’s Roses chocolates from the late 1960s or early ’70s all feature the slogan 'when you get Roses, you’ve got yourself a man’. [read more]
Cadbury’s Crunchie – ‘Snap Goes the Crunchie’ (c1966)
This is a 30–second television advertisement for Cadbury’s Crunchie chocolate bar. [read more]
The Piano Tuner (1960)
In this unfinished amateur comedy, a man (Frank Straford) who has hired an incompetent piano tuner (John Straford) ends up doing all the work himself, with a few unintended consequences. [read more]
Vivien Straford 1927–1937 (1927)
This is a 9.5mm home movie compilation of footage filmed by Vivien Straford of his family between 1927 and 1937. It includes scenes in the family garden and at a picnic, and features Vivien’s wife, their parents, their son Jim ... [read more]
Fez Please (c1935)
A short silent documentary made by the Owen Brothers about Melbourne’s fast-disappearing cable trams. [read more]
Hypsi: the Forest Gardener (1998)
The documentary follows zoologist Dr Andrew Dennis as he studies the life cycle of the smallest kangaroo, the hypsi (musky rat-kangaroo), in Far North Queensland’s rainforest, and discovers the secrets of its survival. [read more]
Australia Today – Fort Denison: [Pinchgut]: A Relic of Early Sydney (1939)
Fort Denison is a fortified island in Sydney Harbour built between 1841 and 1857 as a defence against a feared invasion. This newsreel narrates the history of the site over time, and shows the Fort’s various characteristics and possible functions. [read more]
