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Australasian Gazette – Historic Cricket (1933)
This newsreel segment shows highlights of the second Test played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in the 1932–1933 series, which was won by Australia. It includes England’s Harold Larwood bowling to Jack Fingleton; Don Bradman batting as well as being ... [read more]
Boys and Balls (1994)
A light-hearted examination of the appeal of ballsports to men and boys. Players discuss cricket, football and basketball. Famous sportsmen contribute to the debate. The film features HG Nelson, Roy Slaven, Ron Barassi, Merv Hughes, Derek Kickett, Andrew Gaze, Brian ... [read more]
Dead-end Drive-in (1986)
In the 1990s economic and environmental disasters have reduced society to chaos. To combat looting and marauding ‘car boys’, authorities convert the Star Drive-in into a jail for unemployed young people. Captives are given action movies to watch and junk ... [read more]
Murray-Will, Ewan: Ballet Russes in Australia (c1939)
On the sand and rocks of Bungan Beach, dancers from the Ballets Russes enact a drama for the camera and perform excerpts from their repertoire. Friend and balletomane Ewan Murray-Will films the action in a number of scenes. Some of ... [read more]
South Melbourne Methodist Mission News (c1924)
This film made by the South Melbourne Methodist Mission promotes their work with children and the poor in 1920s South Melbourne. It also shows the mission’s weekly issuing of firewood to struggling families in the local community. [read more]
Thunderstone – Episode Three (1999)
Fifteen-year-old Noah (Jeffrey Walker) is from the futuristic underground community of North Col. Attempting to time travel to the past, he is trapped in a desert, where he is captured by the Nomads, a group of children led by Arushka ... [read more]
Building a Railway Engine (c1925)
This short film shows some of the work carried out at the Islington railway engine construction and repair plant of the South Australian Railways, just outside of Adelaide. [read more]
Lousy Little Sixpence (1983)
A documentary using historical footage and interviews with Indigenous people who belonged to the generation that were forced into unpaid servitude by the Australian government. The title refers to the amount of pocket money the indentured workers were supposed to ... [read more]
Outback Opera, La Boheme Tour (2002)
Opera Australia’s OzOpera Tour took the opera La Boheme to country Victoria and South Australia. The camera follows the 22-stop tour and records the singers, musicians and technical crew as they set up and perform the Italian opera by Giacomo ... [read more]
Sadness (1999)
The documentary Sadness is based on a theatrical performance developed by the award-winning Australian photographer William Yang. Writer-director Tony Ayres developed it into a film with Yang as the central character. Yang is covering two main stories linked through the ... [read more]
Holy Smoke (1999)
While visiting India, young Australian woman Ruth Barron (Kate Winslet) falls under the spell of a guru. Ruth’s alarmed mother, Miriam (Julie Hamilton), travels to Delhi and lures Ruth home with a lie that her father (Tim Robertson) is terminally ... [read more]
Rare Chicken Rescue (2008)
Queensland chicken breeder Mark Tully struggles with depression and anxiety but his love of chickens has given him back his life. Rare Chicken Rescue is an observational documentary that follows Mark on his mission to save rare breeds of chicken ... [read more]
Monday Conference – PNG (1971)
Robert Moore is the moderator and Donald Hogg and Richard Beckett are the interviewers of the impressive New Guinea politician John Guise, later to be knighted Sir John Guise. They’re asking him about his country’s timetable to independence and the ... [read more]
Christmas Hustle and Bustle: Crowds Leave for Well-deserved Holiday on 22 December (1928)
This item from a silent newsreel shows Melburnians during the Christmas season of 1928, including Christmas shoppers crossing Swanston Street in the pouring rain and two swagmen drinking in a Melbourne park. The newsreel contains intertitles. [read more]
Dance Me to My Song (1998)
Julia (Heather Rose) has severe cerebral palsy and lives by herself in suburbia. Since she can’t speak, get out of bed, walk or bathe by herself, she’s heavily dependent on her carer, Madelaine (Joey Kennedy). Her most significant freedom is ... [read more]
Bliss (1985)
Harry Joy (Barry Otto) dies – for four minutes – after a heart attack. When he is revived, he realises he’s living in hell. His wife Bettina (Lynette Curran) is having an affair with his business partner Joel (Jeff Truman), ... [read more]
When the Lights Go Out: Cockroaches, a Domestic History (1994)
A documentary about the cockroach. Scientists talk about its survival instincts, families react to its presence and we go on a tour of a roach’s domestic life. The film consists of interviews, animation and graphics, people overreacting to the insect ... [read more]
My Mother’s Country Part 2 (2001)
My Mother’s Country is a personal account of the Coniston Massacre of 1928, in two parts. [read more]
Loading horses on the SS Cornwall (1899)
Officers of the Queensland Mounted Infantry lead some reluctant horses down a ramp to board the SS Cornwall on 31 October 1899 in Brisbane, prior to departing for the Boer War. [read more]
St Kilda Esplanade 1914 (1914)
This short piece of actuality footage shows people at St Kilda in 1914, including at the entrance to Luna Park, Daylight Pictures Cinema and a jetty at the beach. [read more]
