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Round About Townsville (1926)
Townsville, Magnetic Island and the Hinchinbrook Channels are the subject of this scenic tour through northern Queensland’s attractive tourist destinations. Filled with steady pans and well framed static shots, this documentary also contains explanatory intertitles and colour-tinted and toned sequences. [read more]
Double Trouble – Episode 1 (2007)
Double Trouble is about twin Indigenous girls, both born in Alice Springs but separated at birth and unaware of each other’s existence. The twins accidentally cross paths and decide to swap places. In this, the opening episode of Double Trouble, ... [read more]
Peach’s Australia – Darling River (1976)
The travel journalist Bill Peach continues his wander around the continent of Australia with a stop along the banks of the Darling River at Bourke in New South Wales. This was the centre of sheep grazing in Australia from the ... [read more]
Two Tribes (1998)
Bankers and difficult kids. Both have bad reputations. This is the story of some inner-city kids at a special school who link up with a group of bankers who become their mentors. [read more]
Brisbane Dreaming (1994)
This documentary is about the original Indigenous custodians of the Brisbane area. [read more]
Australia Post – Olympic Post Script (1956)
This black-and-white film was produced to celebrate the communications achievements of the PMG (Postmaster-General’s Department) during the summer Olympic Games, held in Melbourne from 22 November to 8 December 1956. [read more]
Uncle (1996)
The narrator (voiced by William McInnes) goes to live with his Uncle (John Flaus), who retires from working at the hardware shop after selling a million nails. As Uncle and Aunt are childless, the nephew becomes their surrogate child and ... [read more]
A Kid Called Troy (1993)
Eight-year-old Troy has contracted AIDS from his mother. His father, Vince, cares for him now that his mother has died. Troy requires hospital treatment and drugs to delay the effects of the medical condition. Troy’s death is not in ... [read more]
Hello (2003)
This gently funny short is a take on the classic 'boy wants girl’ love story, set in a fantastical world where all the characters have music players for heads. A boy with an analog tape recorder for a head, is ... [read more]
We Aim to Please (1976)
We Aim to Please is an experimental feminist film that challenged the way the image of women had been produced by and for men. Made collaboratively by Margot Nash and Robin Laurie, who also appear in it, the film is ... [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]
Shooey’s Little World (1984)
Keith and Gladys Shoesmith live in the country with their six children. This observational documentary explores all aspects of their daily life – from economics to sociology. [read more]
Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavement (1976)
This documentary made by the New South Wales Department of Main Roads features the reconstruction of a five-and-a-half kilometre stretch of the Pacific Highway at Clybucca Flat, north of Kempsey, using continuously reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP). It includes footage ... [read more]
Factory to Farm: Making Agricultural Implements in Australia (c1925)
One of a series of promotional films made by the Melbourne-based Made in Australia Council, Factory to Farm supports the production of agricultural implements in Australian factories. It provides a visual record of the inner workings of an agricultural implements ... [read more]
Forbidden Lie$ (2007)
Forbidden Lie$ is a real-life thriller about the incredible journey of author, Norma Khouri, to defend herself against claims that her best-selling book, Forbidden Love (2003), was fraudulent. Forbidden Love is about the honour killing of Dalia, Khouri’s best friend ... [read more]
Imperial Tractors: Western Australian Farmers Support an Australian Industry (1937)
This silent black-and-white Imperial Tractors cinema advertisement shows tractor stock at the AH McDonald and Co warehouse and tractors being loaded onto a cargo train for delivery to regional areas. [read more]
Going Tribal (1995)
The documentary observes the lifestyle and values of a group of ferals living in the Byron Bay area in northern New South Wales. The film includes interviews with several families, observes ceremonies taken from ancient cultures and explains the philosophy ... [read more]
A Pub With No Beer (1957)
Slim Dusty’s original recording of the Gordon Parsons song about a hotel that has run out of beer, based on a poem by Dan Sheahan. [read more]
Darwin c1926 (c1926)
This actuality footage from around 1926 contains silent vignettes of Darwin and its environment including rail transport, recreational activities, local shop fronts, and the multicultural population. [read more]
Black Sunday (1926)
The ‘Black Sunday’ bushfires of Valentine’s Day 1926 swept across the Gippsland and Dandenong regions of Victoria and claimed 31 lives. This silent black-and-white footage contains scenes of the fires close up, the housing and bushland destroyed in its wake, ... [read more]
