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‘Everyone has to do it, Alex’ (1994)
Alex (Elena Mandalis) comes to pick up Vicki (Dora Kaskanis) from home, after a big party the night before. Vicki’s father (George Harlem) tells his daughter to tie her hair back and close her jacket. It’s clear that she’s afraid ... [read more]
Torres Strait Islanders (1898)
Torres Strait Islanders contains the surviving four-and-a-half minutes of footage shot by AC Haddon during an expedition conducted by Cambridge University to Murray Island in the Torres Straits, in 1898. Composed of five short sequences, this film is the world’s ... [read more]
Toora Vale Ice Company, Berri: The Ice Man Was Never Like This (c1934)
This animated cinema advertisement for Toora Vale Ice Company promotes the benefits of ice refrigeration. [read more]
‘A place to live’ (2006)
Against a background of postwar optimism and a public mood for social change, Bob Mathews and Ken Coldicutt make a film about Melbourne’s housing shortage, A Place to Live (1950). [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]
‘We don’t like Hendersons’ (1985)
In their local café hangout, the gang drink Coke, chat and play pinball. Ted Morgan (Ben Mendelsohn), son of a striking mill worker, looks forward to the ‘fireworks’ which will result from a walk out at the mill owned by ... [read more]
A threatening stranger (2009)
Fiona (Radha Mitchell) and Ben (Joel Edgerton) are visiting a Hindu temple. As they watch a woman praying to the goddess of fertility and motherhood, Ben is approached by Scarlett (Isabel Lucas), a beautiful young woman who knows him from ... [read more]
Elijah finds love (1983)
Delie (Sigrid Thornton) is aware that Creeping Annie (Judith Massey) the maid and Elijah (Cliff Ellen) the farmhand are always at odds with one another, but one day Annie reveals an unsuspected talent. As a result, the couple decide to ... [read more]
‘Where’s Manny?’ (1991)
Pearl (Lynette Curran) confronts Alexandra (Agnieszka Perepeczko). Pearl accuses Alexandra’s star boxer, Manny (Tibor Gyapjas), of beating up her brother Bobby (Paul Goddard). As the argument intensifies, Manny arrives. [read more]
Agnes Abbott: Hard Worker (2006)
Agnes Abbott tells her story from her birth in the beautiful Eastern Arrernte country of Inteye-Arrkwe (Ross River), to her life in the cattle industry, and her later time at the Santa Teresa Mission where she created an alcohol-free community, ... [read more]
The fighting Alibrandi women (1999)
Michael Andretti has saved Josie (Pia Miranda) from a ticklish situation at school, after she broke another girl’s nose with a school book. At home, Christina (Greta Scacchi) upbraids her daughter for turning her father into a hero. Christina and ... [read more]
A Big Country – The Darcys of Mallapunyah (1981)
The Darcys have one of the last family owned and operated cattle stations in the Northern Territory. Their vast family ensures a constant supply of labour but could create future inheritance issues. [read more]
High on a Cool Wave (1968)
As Australia moves into cooler temperatures in March 1966, the waves pick up along the east coast. A huge swell hits Fairy Bower near Manly, providing dramatic scenes as surfers and a lone surfboat brave the conditions. At Noosa Heads ... [read more]
Culture clash (2009)
Fiona (Radha Mitchell) and Ben (Joel Edgerton) have just arrived in Kolkata. They are faced with travel stress (a lost suitcase) and culture clash (Indian beggar children) before their driver Krishna (Samrat Chakrabarti) arrives and they can leave the airport. ... [read more]
The Food Lovers’ Guide to Australia – Series 5 Episode 5 (2004)
Maeve O’Mara travels to north-east Tasmania to discover the secrets behind creating a terrific cheddar. We then meet the chef of Sydney’s great restaurant, Claude’s, while Joanna Savill helps with the preparations for a three day long religious feast organised ... [read more]
The defence case (1977)
Professor Gordon Hawkins plays the role of McLeod Lindsay as he walks through the night he came home from his work at the pub and found his wife brutally bashed. [read more]
‘A very friendly fellow’ (1973)
The Homicide team question friends of Buddy Rand (Fred Cullen) in an attempt to discover what he knows about the robbery. Inspector Lawson (Charles Tingwell) and Detective Sergeant Barnes (George Mallaby) question Buddy’s employer. Senior Detective Kelly (John Stanton) and ... [read more]
Extracting the ore (1936)
The crushed rock is carried to the milling plant by conveyor belt and weighed. The ore is crushed further before being fed into a 'classifier’ which separates the sand from the slime. To recover the lead mineral, the ore is ... [read more]
Bad news (1996)
Mayor Larry Hand is sweating on the numbers he will need to be re-elected as mayor. After a meeting with another councillor, his chances look even worse. [read more]
Round the Twist – Series One – Spaghetti Pig Out (1989)
Chaos reigns after a bolt of lightning hits the Twist family’s video remote control – it now works on people! Unfortunately Gribble Junior (Lachlan Jeffrey) gets hold of it and Pete (Sam Vandenberg) is desperately trying to get it back. ... [read more]
