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Chandon Pictures – Champion Charles (2007)
Tom Chandon (Rob Carlton) is an aspiring feature documentary director with one credit to his name, the largely unseen Oh No Bonzo: The Clown that Killed a Child. With producer Lucy Cannon (Rebecca Massey) and cinematographer Nick Brenner (Darren Gilshenan) ... [read more]
The 1930s Golden Era of Australian Movies: A Tribute to Ken G Hall AO OBE (1988)
Australian producer-director Ken G Hall talks to camera about five of his films – On Our Selection (1932), The Squatter’s Daughter (1933), Tall Timbers (1937), It Isn’t Done (1937)and Dad Rudd MP (1940). The second part of the documentary shows ... [read more]
Homes for Crippled Children (c1940)
Produced by Reverend RW Dobbinson, this silent film surveys convalescent homes and caring facilities for children with polio and other crippling diseases. It shows a number of homes and facilities across the country including the children’s ward of the Brisbane ... [read more]
Size 10 (1978)
Size 10 portrays how women’s body images have been formed and deformed by advertising and sexism and analyses the separation of women from their bodies and each other. Four women tell their stories of the conditioning they received as teenagers ... [read more]
Compass – Tomorrow’s Islam (2003)
From New York to London and Paris, this program examines how Western Muslims are taking the lead in finding new ways to deal with some of the most pressing issues for 21st century Islam. [read more]
Bit of Black Business – Custard (2007)
When her grandfather dies, a young woman (Amy Miller-Porter) travels by ferry to support her Grandma (Freda Glynn) at the funeral. The journey to her family’s island home leads to a reaffirming of self and a chance for the Granddaughter ... [read more]
Chez les Sauvages Australiens (1917)
Composed of material filmed by William Jackson in 1917, Chez Les Sauvages Australiens (In Native Australia or, literally, At Home with the Wild Australians) presents a series of short sequences separated by French language intertitles. This demonstration film of ... [read more]
Black Water (2007)
Based on a true story, Adam (Andy Rodoreda), his girlfriend Grace (Diana Glenn) and her younger sister Lee (Maeve Dermody) set out on a driving holiday in a lush area of northern Australia. After a visit to a crocodile farm, ... [read more]
La Poule aux Oeufs d’Or (1905)
A farmer and his wife discover that the hen they bought at a market is magical, laying eggs of gold. They amass a wonderful fortune and live a rich life, with their golden eggs hoarded in a secret basement. After ... [read more]
Australasian Gazette – Spectacular Surf Club Parade at Bondi Championships Carnival (c1929)
This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1929 shows a Scottish pipe band leading the opening parade of a surf carnival at Bondi Beach, Sydney. Surf clubs including North Bondi, Maroubra, Curl Curl, Clovelly, Collaroy and Manly participate. ... [read more]
National Treasures – Endeavour Journal (2004)
Warren Brown leafs through the precious pages of James Cook’s 1770 journal to discover Cook’s first impressions and trace the beginning of Australia as we know it today. [read more]
Chequerboard Revisited – Episode 6: That One Piece of Paper (2000)
The original Chequerboard program was made in black-and-white in 1972. Two boys were chosen from Liverpool Boys’ High School. Pat wants to leave school immediately at age 16 to try for work as a technician while Ken, who loves school, ... [read more]
Australia Today – Lucky Strike at Larkinville, WA and other segments (1938)
This Australia Today newsreel features three segments: Lucky Strike at Larkinville – about gold prospecting in Western Australia in 1932; Fangs of Death – about the dangers of deadly Australian snakes; and The Lucky Hour – about proposals for the ... [read more]
State of Shock (1991)
Aboriginal alcoholic Alwyn Peter traces the events in his life. Alwyn’s mother Rachel talks about the effect of forced relocation on the family and recalls Alwyn’s self-mutilation in his early life. State of Shock also interviews Alwyn’s wife, Ruth and ... [read more]
Land Mines – A Love Story (2004)
Shah, a former Mujahideen soldier in Afghanistan, courts a Tajik girl, Habiba, and marries her. The couple have both been the victims of landmines. The wars of the latter half of the 20th century have left 110 million mines hidden ... [read more]
ALP: Frank Forde, Election 1946 (1946)
In an address to the public designed in newsreel format for cinema release, Deputy Prime Minister Frank Forde makes an appeal to his Capricornia electorate for a vote for him and a vote for Chifley, prior to the September 1946 ... [read more]
Arthur Boyd: Testament of a Painter (1994)
A portrait of Australian painter Arthur Boyd (1920 – 1999). Born into a family of painters, writers and potters in 1920, his paintings are displayed in galleries all over Australia and overseas. Themes in his paintings include man’s inhumanity to ... [read more]
Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (1989)
A short experimental film shot totally in a studio, it is about the relationship between an Aboriginal daughter and her white mother. The daughter, now the sole carer of her dying mother, dreams of far away places. [read more]
What’s Your Poison? – Ecstasy (1997)
The aim of What’s Your Poison was to explain the science of recreational drugs and examine them in an atmosphere free of moral and political overtones. The program attempts to explain the facts and dispel some of the myths that ... [read more]
On Our Selection (1932)
Drought has all but ruined the Rudd family 'selection’ in south-western Queensland, but Dad Rudd (Bert Bailey) and his wife (Alfreda Bevan) hold grimly to the land. He’s in debt to a ruthless neighbour, Old Carey (Len Budrick), who seizes ... [read more]
