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Road to Kokoda (1942)
This Movietone News special edition features Australian troops fighting on the Kokoda track in the Owen Stanley Ranges of Papua New Guinea during the Second World War. It uses footage taken by cinematographer Damien Parer for the Commonwealth Department of ... [read more]
Bush Toys (2008)
Bush Toys documents the continuity of the bush toy-making tradition in the Titjikala community, 100 kilometres south of Alice Springs. It follows a group of boys finding the materials, creating toy cars and exhibiting their works. The bush toys achieve ... [read more]
Manufacturing a teapot (1920)
A ten-tonne drawing press shapes the body of a teapot. A jeweller and two others watch a workman operate the machine and admire its product. The teapot body is then passed to another machine which cuts off the ‘scrap’ around ... [read more]
Canberra Files, The (2006)
The Canberra Files takes a chronological look at the way moving images of Australia’s political leaders have influenced the nation over 105 years. It features a special on the Menzies Home Movie Collection and an interview with Menzies’s daughter, Heather ... [read more]
Munch kids ask, what is rubbish? (1992)
In this animated segment of Lift Off, children’s voices are heard discussing a question – when is rubbish, rubbish? As they ponder the question, exploring it from many different perspectives their ideas are animated in a variety of ways. [read more]
Chinese Take Away (2002)
Chinese Take Away is an adaptation by filmmaker Mitzi Goldman of a one-woman theatre production written and performed by Anna Yen. Yen seeks to learn about a family tragedy and tells the complex story of the three generations of her ... [read more]
The switchover (1965)
A prosecutor (Kenric Hudson) interrogates robbery and murder suspect George Lister (Owen Weingott) in court. [read more]
Deadly Yarns – Don’t Say Sorry (2004)
Christine Jacobs, a Western Australian Aboriginal woman, provides a short account of the pain she suffered as a child of the stolen generations when she was removed from her family. Jacobs tells how as an adult she liberated herself from ... [read more]
Wicked Science – Episode 1, The Gift (2003)
On their first day back at Sandy Bay High School, Toby (André de Vanny) and Elizabeth (Bridget Neval) are zapped by a strange ray and become instant scientific geniuses. The battlelines are drawn when Elizabeth interferes with Toby’s first ‘scientific ... [read more]
Land Short of People (1947)
This film is from a monthly documentary series, This Modern Age, and surveys Australian industrial, social and geographical conditions in the 1940s. It emphasises the need for an increase in population and discusses the new immigration program, grappling with the ... [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]
Cradle of Creation (1944)
A compendium of the Middle East filmed by Frank Hurley during his years working as an official war photographer in the Second World War. It covers Iran, Iraq, Jordan and Israel, including the cities of Tehran, Basra, the ancient city ... [read more]
Another death in the family (1984)
The family have returned to Maggie’s house for the wake after her brother’s funeral. Uncle Tom (Peter Gwynne) has a heart attack and dies on their sofa in the lounge room just as he’s about to drink a cup of ... [read more]
Magnavox Wireless: Why Jones Chose a Magnavox (1925)
After buying an expensive do-it-yourself wireless that doesn’t work, Mr Jones is convinced to buy a Magnavox Wireless by a friend. [read more]
Jack Thompson Down Under – Episode 25 (1987)
A magazine-style program representing aspects of Australian life, culled from footage shot over the years primarily by the ABC and Film Australia and presented by Aussie icon Jack Thompson. In this program there’s an item about the ... [read more]
Roberts, John: Anzac Day march Adelaide, South Australia and other segments (c1941)
This compilation of home movie reel segments filmed by John Roberts includes black-and-white and colour footage, shot between 1939 and 1943. It shows a sailor returning home from leave, a War Bonds march from 1941 and a Nations Parade in ... [read more]
Australia Post – Lettergram (1988)
This is a set of three Australia Post television commercials (TVCs) promoting the Lettergram service. [read more]
Snowy Hydro – The Snowy Mountains Scheme (1952)
Completed somewhere around 1952, the film celebrates the achievements of the Snowy Mountains Scheme, now three years into its endeavour. [read more]
Prices and wages (1948)
A woman in the butchers can only afford to buy cheap meat; a young boy doesn’t have enough money for a chocolate; a woman is outraged by the cost of vegetables from the grocer; a man in a café is ... [read more]
Seven Little Australians (1973)
This is the story of the Woolcot family – Captain John Woolcot (Leonard Teale) from the NSW Regiment, his young second wife Esther (Elizabeth Alexander), and his seven children and their adventures in late 19th century Sydney. It is ... [read more]
