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Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate – ‘A Little Sign of Love’ (c1969)
This 30-second black-and-white television advertisement for Cadbury’s Milk Tray chocolates dates from the late 1960s or early 1970s. [read more]
Making a canoe and hunting a turtle (1948)
Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory. On the beach it’s time to play out one of the dramas of daily life – the return of the hunters. [read more]
A Girl, a Horse, a Dream (2003)
A Girl, a Horse, a Dream follows the top Australian female jockey Bernadette Cooper for a year as she travels around the country competing at country, provincial and metropolitan racetracks. The film interrogates the belief that horseracing is one of ... [read more]
Winners – Quest Beyond Time (1985)
One day, while hang gliding, Mike (Daniel Cordeaux) is transported 500 years into the future. There, he is asked to help a primitive pagan community to cure thteir sickness. They need him to fly to get a cure from a ... [read more]
November Victory (1955)
November Victory presents the struggles of Australian workers to improve their conditions and highlights some of the landmark events in the history of the labour movement in Australia. [read more]
Street Scenes in Perth, Western Australia (1907)
Leonard Corrick’s candid camera records Perth street scenes in 1907. This footage screened during the performances of the Corrick family entertainers at the Queen’s Hall in Perth in March 1907. [read more]
Colleano on Tightwire Rehearsing at Home (c1939)
This colour home movie footage, probably filmed by Winnie Colleano around 1939, shows tightwire performer Con Colleano rehearsing part of his routine in the backyard of his farm near Allentown, Pennsylvania. [read more]
Timber Getting in New South Wales (c1925)
Presented by Australasian Films, this silent film looks at the timber industry in New South Wales. It shows methods of timber-felling, the transportation of logs by steel cables and bullock teams, and the main depot in Langley Vale, New South ... [read more]
Camp-Berlei Foundation Garments: Physiological Support (c1927)
This tinted cinema advertisement for Camp-Berlei foundation garments includes mannequins and live models wearing a range of dresses, coats and hats by various fashion designers. They are all underpinned by the ‘basis for all frocking’ – Berlei foundation garments. [read more]
Foreign Exchange - Episode 2, Shark Attack (2004)
Fourteen-year-old Brett Miller (Zachary Garred) has discovered an amazing portal In the old Perth beach house where he lives, which takes him to Ireland. When Irish girl Hannah O’Flaherty (Lynn Styles) finds out about it, she wants to come to ... [read more]
Cheap Blonde (1998)
This experimental film rearranges the same sentence 22 times – ‘A famous filmmaker said: “Cinema is the history of men filming women”’ – while deconstructing the video image of a woman bathing in a waterfall. [read more]
Grandad Rudd (1935)
The battling pioneer settler Dad Rudd (Bert Bailey) has now become a grandfather and a prosperous grazier, but no less careful with his money. His sons Dave (Fred MacDonald), Joe (William McGowan) and Dan (George Lloyd) do most of the ... [read more]
Kiddies of Queensland Enjoy Outings in their Billy Carts: Rockhampton (c1920)
This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel item shows a group of boys riding on the back of goats and children riding in billycarts down a street in Rockhampton, Queensland. [read more]
Bran Nue Dae (2009)
Broome boy Willy (Rocky McKenzie) must choose between studying to become a priest or following his heart and pursuing his love for Rosie (Jessica Mauboy). Rosie, an aspiring singer, loves to hang out at the bar and is invited to ... [read more]
Toomelah (2011)
Ten-year-old Daniel (Daniel Connors) lives in Toomelah, a remote Aboriginal community in north-west New South Wales. He lives with his mother (Dorothy Cubby), a drug user, and sees his ex-boxer father (Michael Connors) hanging around the streets drinking metho (methylated ... [read more]
Spirit 2000: Countdown to Sydney (1998)
Director David Goldie interviews athletes as they prepare for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. He talks to them at training and asks what drives them and what makes a champion. Goldie also interviews parents and partners of the athletes. The ... [read more]
Final Insult (1997)
The documentary examines multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS). Sufferers are interviewed about their symptoms and medical practitioners offer solutions. The film asks, what do you do when you are allergic to the 20th century? [read more]
Beautiful Melbourne (1947)
This footage, put together by the Brotherhood of St Laurence in 1947, illustrates the conditions of inner-city housing in Melbourne, Victoria. It shows inner suburban housing in poor condition. This is compared with a family living in a Housing Commission ... [read more]
Australia Post – Express Courier (1988)
Twin Australia Post television advertisements promoting the Express Courier service. [read more]
ALP: Federal Election 1966 (1966)
This is from a collection of the Australian Labor Party’s television advertisements for the 1966 federal election. It consists of ten ads – five each of five minutes duration and five each of 30 seconds duration. The longer advertisements were ... [read more]
