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1930s and out of work (1955)
This clip re-creates scenes of 1930s Depression-era life and the hardships experienced by the city’s poor and unemployed. In a dramatised scene, a father and son busk for money in the streets. A sign at the boy’s feet reads 'Father ... [read more]
Constructing the expressway (1968)
Aerial shots of section one of the expressway show work completed by mid-1964, a year into construction of the Sydney-Newcastle expressway. A map illustrates the first two sections of the expressway including the interchange at Mount White. The Department of ... [read more]
High school students against war in Vietnam (1970)
A pupil from Castle Hill High School delivers a speech about the support from students from the steps of Sydney’s town hall to a huge crowd of protestors against the Vietnam War at a moratorium rally. [read more]
The discovery (1968)
Pastoralist and prospector Lang Hancock retraces his route by air and on foot to explain how he made his great discovery of a mountain of iron ore at Mount Tom Price in Western Australia. [read more]
‘This is your domestic staff’ (1982)
On her first morning at Elsey Station, Jeannie Gunn (Angela Punch McGregor) meets the three Aboriginal women who are supposed to be her domestics. The 'boss’ girl Rosie (Mawuyul Yanthalawny) speaks very little English, and Jeannie knows no Pidgin. [read more]
Nellie Melba (1927)
Dame Nellie Melba sings the national anthem, God Save the King, on the steps of Parliament House (now Old Parliament House), in Canberra at the official opening in 1927. The camera pans across the official party as the Duke of ... [read more]
‘No sign of intelligent life forms’ (2005)
The travellers stop for petrol at Emu Creek, after a long day’s drive from Broome. Ben (Nathan Phillips) records the events on video as the others freshen up. Kristy (Kestie Morassi) tells Ben that Liz (Cassandra Magrath) has a crush ... [read more]
The media (1956)
This clip illustrates the workings of the OTC, telegraph and press offices. This is followed by footage from various athletic events, and of the special post offices, purpose-built to serve the public at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. [read more]
‘He was writing all the time’ (1995)
Upon their return from Paris, Christopher Houghton (Martin Jacobs) and Sorel Atherton (Angie Milliken) are greeted at the airport by their friends Jeremy Fliszar (Jacek Koman) and Meredith (Fiona Stewart). Scenes in Paris with a couple called Avery (Martin Jacobs) ... [read more]
A quick grope (2011)
Athol Shreve (Colin Friels), a politician tipped to be Australia’s next prime minister, makes a pass at Dorothy (Judy Davis) in the back of his limousine. After Dorothy rejects him, she learns something about her mother she wishes she hadn’t. ... [read more]
Entitled to a title (1937)
Hubert Blaydon (Cecil Kellaway) answers the door to an English lawyer in a bowler hat. Mr Potter (Leslie Victor) has come from England to bestow an inheritance. Mr Blaydon is really Lord Blaydon, with an estate in England. Mrs Blaydon ... [read more]
Thylacine (1932)
This clip captures images of the Tasmanian tiger, alone in its enclosure at Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart. The thylacine is shown in close-up investigating the camera, pacing up and down its small cage, yawning, lying in the sun, and sitting ... [read more]
‘Do you believe in God?’ (2005)
At a Saturday morning cricket match, Nick (William McInnes) asks his colleague Andy (Anthony Hayes), the journalist who covered the death on the train tracks the night before, if he believes in God. Andy glares at him, like he has ... [read more]
Papunya: a different world (1993)
The 'black and white urban band’ Djaambi arrives at the remote Aboriginal community of Papunya to find no audience, minor flooding and bleak housing conditions for the locals. The band hopes that their visit to the community will leave a ... [read more]
Pressure to perform (1998)
Primary school girls compete to be chosen for the Australian gymnastics team. Pressure is on the young gymnasts as they train at the Western Australian Institute of Sport. The girls and coaches are interviewed in 1994 and then in 1996. [read more]
‘We’re keeping him’ (1974)
After his brother is killed in a car accident outside the small town of Paris, Arthur (Terry Camilleri) meets Len (John Meillon), the mayor, who leads the funeral procession. At a council meeting afterwards, the mayor complains about unemployed youth, ... [read more]
Antarctic vigil (1952)
You can view Antarctic Vigil here in its entirety. An Australian ship lumbers south through heavy seas towards Antarctica. At the forbidding Balleny Islands, claimed by New Zealand, the inaccessible terrain forbids a landing. King penguin chicks covered in down ... [read more]
The camera takes off (1919)
Machines of No. 1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, take off from their desert base at El Mejdel in Palestine, in February 1918. Their flight is filmed from the air by Captain Frank Hurley, flying in the observer’s seat, with Captain ... [read more]
‘Are you going to hell?’ (2006)
Kenny (Shane Jacobson) takes his son Jesse (Jesse Jacobson) to see his grandfather (Ronald Jacobson), at a trailer park outside Melbourne. On the way, Kenny explains to his son why he doesn’t believe in God. At the mobile home, Kenny’s ... [read more]
Play the game – floating and sinking (2002)
Host Sam (Angela Kelly) explores floating and sinking with parrot Muppet Portia, testing various objects in a basin of water. It is from the 'Play the game’ segment, designed to encourage parents to try some of these activities with their ... [read more]
