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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]

What’s Your Poison? – Ecstasy (1997)

The aim of What’s Your Poison was to explain the science of recreational drugs and examine them in an atmosphere free of moral and political overtones. The program attempts to explain the facts and dispel some of the myths that ... [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]

The Circus Comes to Town (c1943)

This silent documentary follows Wirth’s Circus and Zoo as it travels to Brisbane, Queensland. It shows the arrival of the circus train at the station and the elephants hauling equipment from the train. A large crowd gathers around the elephants ... [read more]

900 Neighbours (2006)

Northcott is a multi-storey public housing estate in Surry Hills, Sydney. It was built in the 1960s. It houses 900 residents and has attracted negative publicity because of its social problems. In 2006 the residents staged a performance piece that ... [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]

Serving Suggestion (1998)

Little Kevin (voiced by Philip Joseph) is a snotty boy who doesn’t heed his mother’s call at the supermarket. He steals lollies, gobbles them and spills them, causing an old lady to fall. He runs over her to get his ... [read more]

40,000 Years of Dreaming: A Century of Australian Cinema (1996)

George Miller presents a personal view of the historical and cultural influences that have shaped the development of Australian cinema since its beginning in 1896. [read more]

The Club (1980)

Laurie Holden (Jack Thompson) is coach of a Victorian Football League (VFL) team that hasn’t won a premiership for 19 years. Club president Ted Parker (Graham Kennedy) brings in a star recruit at great expense, but youngster Geoff Hayward ... [read more]

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