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Jack O’Hagan: Vocalist Composer (1931)
In his only filmed performance, broadcaster, singer, composer and performing artist Jack O’Hagan recites five of his compositions, 'Carry On’, 'By the Big Blue Billabong’, 'In Dreamy Araby’, 'After the Dawn’ (1926) and – most famously – 'Along the Road ... [read more]
Swanston St Shamble; Two Day Jag (1944)
Graeme Bell and his younger brother Roger have been key players in Australian jazz for over 60 years and these historic recordings are their first commercially released tracks. They were made three years before their pioneering tours to Europe in ... [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]
General Motors Holden – Export Holden Version 2 (c1962)
This television advertisement for General Motors Holden showcases the economic and cultural value of Holden exports to markets in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, including Malaya, Thailand and Iran. It includes footage of Holdens in some of these countries ... [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]
Jack Thompson Down Under – Episode 25 (1987)
A magazine-style program representing aspects of Australian life, culled from footage shot over the years primarily by the ABC and Film Australia and presented by Aussie icon Jack Thompson. In this program there’s an item about the ... [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]
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]
Eugénie Sandler PI – Episode Two (2000)
Crooked detective Matt Gurney (Martin Jacobs) detonates the explosive planted in the Sandler home but Eugénie (Xaris Miller) and Warwick (Matthew Vennell) manage to escape. Tony (Darcy Bonser), a young street kid, offers to help them only for Eugénie and ... [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]
Shell Animated Commercial: Poster Man (1960)
In this animated advertisement for Shell Motor Oil, a cartoon ‘poster man’ comically attempts to secure a Shell poster on the side of a building. [read more]
Bright Star (2009)
Hampstead Village, London, 1818. Eighteen-year-old Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) lives in a small house with her sister, Toots (Edie Martin), brother Samuel (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) and widowed mother (Kerry Fox). Through her mother’s connection with the Dilke family, Fanny meets John ... [read more]
Out There – Two Down Under (2002)
In small-town Wollemi, teenager Miller (Richard Wilson) observes two overseas newcomers arriving at the vet clinic next door. Reilly (Douglas Smith) is a reluctant refugee from his wealthy family’s troubles in America, while UK-born Aggie (Jade Ewen) is starting her ... [read more]
Singapore Synopsis (1971)
This is a travelogue made by amateur filmmaker Alan Bresnahan during a trip to Singapore in 1971. It includes the city’s colonial architecture, prominent buildings and the Tiger Balm Gardens, as well as capturing some of the local ways of ... [read more]
Australasian Gazette – In and around Hamilton District (c1920)
This Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1920 shows the orchard districts of Hamilton, Queensland. Fruit pickers pick peaches off trees and empty their bags into a trough. They then sort the peaches into crates and hammer them closed for transportation. ... [read more]
Pure S (1975)
Four young heroin addicts scour the streets of Melbourne in search of some good-quality narcotics – or as they call it, 'pure shit’. In the space of 48 hours, a friend dies of an overdose, they are ripped off by ... [read more]
General Motors Holden – Monaro, Three New Models (1968)
This is a two-part television advertisement for the 1968 Holden HK Monaro coupe. [read more]
Family Antics (1945)
A curious documentary featuring the talents of an acrobatic father and son, and their three terriers. [read more]
Astonish Me, Graeme Murphy Choreographer (1989)
An observational documentary that explores the world of choreographer Graeme Murphy. The camera finds him in rehearsal, in performance and with his wife Janet Vernon. He was born and raised in rural Tasmania and he returns to visit his parents. ... [read more]
Australasian Gazette – Test Cricketers (c1926)
This newsreel from about 1926 shows the Australian cricket team while on tour in England. It features MA Noble, Clem Hill, Arthur Mailey, Warren Bardsley, WM Woodfull and the English cricketer Jack Hobbs. Filmed at Headingley Oval, England it shows ... [read more]
