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Ram-raid (1997)
It’s early morning. Teenagers Joe Pelluci (Paul Pantano), Heidi Benson (Rose Byrne) and Glen Murdoch (Omar Baladjam) have carried out a ram-raid on a clothes store. A high-speed police chase ensues. After officers ignore radio orders to call it off, ... [read more]
‘Snap goes the Crunchie’ (1966)
This black-and-white television advertisement for Crunchie is set on a sunny day with a group of young friends playing at the beach. As the Crunchie jingle plays, they eat and 'snap’ their Crunchie bars. The male voice-over describes the bright ... [read more]
A road train driver (2007)
Thommo (Shane Jacobson), a road train driver, is baffled when he stops at the road-closed-due-to-flooding sign placed earlier by John with the aim of preventing vehicles from heading any further. He calls local cop Rosco (Bryan Brown, who stopped John ... [read more]
‘Wish you were going too?’ (2001)
Evan (Samuel Johnson) is hours away from leaving for New York and his friends and flatmates gather at their usual haunt for going away drinks. Amidst the excitement, it looks like Alex (Claudia Karvan) and Evan may not get a ... [read more]
A richer dust (1944)
Pete (Peter Finch) has been wounded in an action to take an enemy gun post. Bluey (Grant Taylor) orders a withdrawal, so Milo (Chips Rafferty) slings his wounded mate over his shoulder and carries him out. Pete only survives long ... [read more]
Speaking forensically (1991)
Ian Cochrane (Sean Scully) finds a vital clue. Superintendent Wallace (Peter Cummins) tells Jock Brennan (Paul Sonkkila) that he will have to drill Cochrane on how to testify to the forensic significance of the find in court, a prospect Brennan ... [read more]
Gough’s world tour (1974)
This clip begins with Prime Minister Gough Whitlam drawn as a giant airship. He is being held down by a large group of people, including then Labor Party President Bob Hawke, who is holding on by one hand. Queensland Premier ... [read more]
Vlad writes letters from space (1999)
Vlad the chimp astronaut walks across the sterile interior of his spacecraft. In his darkened room, he writes another letter home, which he files in a drawer with other, unsent letters. Vlad sits at a console, dwarfed by the letters ... [read more]
The con and the shrink (1995)
Prison psychologist Louisa Correlli (Deborra-Lee Furness) meets convicted felon Kevin Jones (Hugh Jackman) for the first time and is concerned by his apparent inability to perform simple tasks. The damage seems to have been done by an unreported beating that ... [read more]
Truth and lies (1982)
Kate (Judy Davis) and Steve (Richard Moir) have become allies and lovers, united by the disappearance of Mary Ford. In bed, Kate tells him she blew up the bulldozers on his building site a year earlier. Before he can work ... [read more]
‘Sent any good telegrams lately?’ (1967)
Wally (John Meillon), driven to demonstrate his love for Rita (Judi Farr), arranges to have flowers delivered to his wife despite his earlier economy drive. Rita, caught at a particularly vulnerable moment, is deeply touched. Meanwhile Rosemary (Noeline Brown) reveals ... [read more]
This child, Zita (2003)
Aggie Abbott tells of how, when Zita returned to her mother after years of being absent, her mother said that her daughter was dead. Ron Wallace, Zita’s husband, talks about Zita’s experience of being immersed within Western society and alienated ... [read more]
‘God Save the Queen’ (1975)
This clip directly follows David Smith, official secretary to the Governor-General, reading a proclamation dissolving both houses of Parliament on the steps of old Parliament House, Canberra, on 11 November 1975, a few hours after the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, ... [read more]
A daughter’s ruin (1918)
Philip (Boyd Irwin) brings Marjory (Lottie Lyell) home after a day’s outing, during which they have become lovers. Mrs Manton (Connie Martyn) sends her to her room for being so late home. The next section of the film is missing ... [read more]
‘Ungrateful lot of bludgers’ (1997)
Bob (Bill Hunter) tries to phone various homes to determine which bowling ladies are home safely. He calls Jean’s husband but Jack (Alwyn Kurts) is outside emptying the teapot. The ambulance has gone astray, having been given the wrong directions. ... [read more]
Nearing the end (1985)
Burke (Jack Thompson), Wills (Nigel Havers) and King (Matthew Fargher) trudge towards the depot they left more than four months earlier at Cooper Creek. It is 21 April 1861. They have no food and the fourth member of the party, ... [read more]
Australia goes to war (1939)
There is no audible ceremony on Menzies’s arrival in the room, just a short introduction by another speaker. Menzies settles at the microphone and we hear a faint rustle of his papers. In his speech, Menzies exercises his skills as ... [read more]
Shanty town (1981)
Unemployed people were forced to build their houses out of scrap and discarded materials. They established a trading post where clothing was donated. Indigenous Australians were not able to receive the dole and were issued meagre rations. One of the ... [read more]
‘The gentleman’s war is over’ (1979)
In a lonely, windswept hill camp, far out in the veldt, Captain Hunt (Terence Donovan) instructs Captain Taylor (John Waters) to execute Boer prisoners brought in by Morant (Edward Woodward). When Morant queries the order to shoot prisoners, Hunt tells ... [read more]
‘Hinky pinky parlay-voo’ (1931)
An Australian soldier says goodbye to his French sweetheart (Eugenie Prescott), the beautiful daughter of a local café proprietor, as the troops march up to the lines, singing ‘Mademoiselle from Armentières’, a popular hit of the war. He will never ... [read more]
