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‘So where are youse from?’ (2008)
Tarek (Les Chantery) and Nabil (Buddy Dannoun) buy drinks for two glamorous Caucasian Australian women in a trendy inner-city nightclub, but their attempts at small-talk are strained, especially when it comes to the subject of their Lebanese Muslim heritage. Later, ... [read more]
‘The men will protect us’ (1998)
While the two men search in the night for the feral cat, Ronnie (Miranda Otto) and Ida (Brenda Blethyn) get roaring drunk at the Stubbs house. Ida says she knows the men will protect them. Both women burst out laughing ... [read more]
London, 1945 (1945)
This is mute footage shot around London while Deputy Prime Minister Forde was attending the Commonwealth Statesmen’s Meeting held from 4 to 13 April 1945. [read more]
Manila Bay cruise (1974)
The then Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda Marcos host a Manila Bay Cruise on 12 February 1974 for the then prime minister Gough Whitlam and his wife Mrs Margaret Whitlam. [read more]
’Who am I?‘ (1980)
Tony Barber introduces ‘The Fame Game’, explaining to the contestants that a correct answer to the next question will earn the player a pick of the board for a prize or possible $25 score bonus. ‘I had a dream’, the ... [read more]
‘We wrote the map’ (1985)
Burke (Jack Thompson) and Wills (Nigel Havers) have reached the Gulf of Carpenteria. Lying in the sand, Burke asks Wills to be his best man when he marries Miss Julia Matthews on his return to Melbourne. Burke demands a solemn ... [read more]
‘Happy birthday, dad’ (2003)
The camera slowly crawls towards the front door, over the first-floor balcony and into the front bedroom to discover Steve (Gary Sweet) asleep in his bed, watched by his wife Alexandra (Helen Buday). She goes to the bathroom where she ... [read more]
Nations parade (1941)
This colour segment begins with flags from a range of countries leading a nations parade through the streets of Adelaide. Elaborate floats representing various countries including France, China, Greece, the Netherlands and (the former) Yugoslavia pass by the camera. [read more]
Fangs of death (1938)
Fangs of Death enters the dangerous world of venomous snakes. It shows a professional snake handler with brown and tiger snakes; how to milk snakes for serum; and how to treat a snake bite wound with antivenin and a razor. ... [read more]
‘The Magic Pudding’ illustrations (2004)
Norman Lindsay’s The Magic Pudding is one of our best-loved children’s books and the central character one of our great Australian antiheroes. [read more]
The Australians are coming (1940)
The German commander at Beersheba (Eric Reiman) is temporarily befuddled by an artillery barrage that’s designed to throw up dust. Out of this murk come hundreds of Australian Light Horsemen, in a great charge across open ground, followed by heavy ... [read more]
‘This is what comes of Empire building’ (1979)
Morant (Edward Woodward) and Handcock (Bryan Brown) march to their executions. Their lawyer, Major Thomas (Jack Thompson) lingers in their makeshift cell – which looks to be a stable – to consider the epitaph that Morant has requested: 'And a ... [read more]
Railcar and swimming (1926)
This clip contains two sequences. In the first, a railmotor pulls around a corner and passes by the camera before pulling into a station. Various shots of this scene show different aspects of the station. A second sequence shows a ... [read more]
Buses in the 1930s (1936)
A group of men stand in front of the body of a newly constructed single-decker bus. The bus is pulled along the street by a small tractor while two men walk beside it. The next sequence shows another bus (which ... [read more]
Beauty and the boy (1983)
Aunt Vanessa (Wendy Hughes) has returned from London, where she has lived for some years. Her sister Lila (Robyn Nevin) takes PS (Nicholas Gledhill), the six-year-old son of their late sister, to the ship to meet her. PS has never ... [read more]
Kangaroo hunt (1931)
Kangaroos are hunted in the bush to be collected for museums and zoos. A kangaroo hide is presented to the camera. Kangaroos hop into a fenced enclosure and are trapped there. Two men force a hat on one reluctant kangaroo ... [read more]
Hellfire Jack (1985)
An introduction to John Curtin, Australian prime minister, 1941–45. [read more]
Meet Bertie the Aeroplane (1942)
Little Bertie the Aeroplane is only a youngster really, but ‘boy can he fly’. As he flies through the sky and leapfrogs over mountains, a voice-over narrates the story of how Bertie solves the mystery of flying saucers. Flying into ... [read more]
Cecil de Milo (1939)
Mrs Chedworth (Rita Pauncefort) has chosen a new house befitting the social status to which she aspires – with statues and grand windows through which the neighbours can see her parties. Mr Chedworth (Cecil Kellaway) is disturbed at the speed ... [read more]
Changeover at Mawson, 1960 (1961)
Work begins as soon as the ship Thala Dan arrives at Mawson Station, early in 1960. A total of 33 men are to spend a year in Antarctica at Australia’s first two bases, Davis and Mawson. At Mawson, they begin ... [read more]
