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Shelter, food and clothing (c1939)

Over a montage of slum housing in the city of Brisbane, a voice-over talks of the plight of the poor and ‘indecently housed’. A group of hungry men wait outside the Mission’s premises where they gratefully receive their food parcels. ... [read more]

Kids and bombs (2007)

Laith Stevens talks about the aspirations of the Laos people as we see a teacher in front of a class telling the kids not to collect iron to sell. Kids walking along in the bush look for scrap metal and ... [read more]

Interviews (1983)

The interviews with 'experts’ are interrupted by various cinematic devices – sound, graphic questions crawling across the bottom of the screen and the actual image changing optically until the talking head has been removed completely. [read more]

Rodeo, Mt St John (c1934)

Members of the crowd at the rodeo watch from the stands, sit down to a meal and picnic on the grounds. A man drinking a glass of beer is intercut with rodeo footage played in reverse to suggest he is ... [read more]

Birth (1988)

This is an Australia Post television commercial (TVC) promoting the Lettergram service as a replacement for the congratulatory telegram, traditionally sent on the birth of a child. [read more]

Melbourne city (1931)

This clip begins with a panoramic view from the Morehouse Tower of St Paul’s Cathedral looking south over the Yarra River to the Botanical Gardens and the War Memorial. It is followed by a tracking shot from one of the ... [read more]

No time to waste (2007)

Fadi, the coach of his son’s Under 6 soccer team, holds a postmortem with the boys. Ahmed, one of the ICRA volunteers, collects the freshly printed ‘All Eyez on Youth’ posters and flyers and sets about distributing them. Back ... [read more]

What you need to know (1974)

This is one of the two television advertisements produced to facilitate the change to metric on Australian roads in July 1974. [read more]

Jesus’s belly button (2005)

The artists talk about the response to the paintings on the Santa Teresa church wall. We see an Aboriginal interpretation of biblical characters such as Jesus and Moses. [read more]

Poetry (1980)

Three elderly women residents of the Kurmala Nursing Home, in Sydney, read poetry which they have written about their experiences of old age. [read more]

‘No killing, no injuries, no mines’ (2004)

This clip is taken from the last few minutes of the film. Habiba is a victim of a landmine in Afghanistan who now has an artificial leg as a result. She speaks movingly about her wish for an end to ... [read more]

Harvesting peanuts (1954)

This clip shows the harvesting of peanut plants. The harvester’s blade cuts the tap roots of a line of plants, which are then removed from the soil by hand and stacked in stooks to dry. A newly picked peanut kernel ... [read more]

Bankers and kids (1998)

We discover the hopes and dreams of a group of inner-city kids and a group of bankers who will pair off and work to create a project together over several months. The projects will reflect the personalities of each team. [read more]

Unfinished business (2001)

The mother (Kaarin Fairfax) sits forlorn on the porch. Her eyes search the landscape. She begins to sing. Her song moves her in the direction of the tracker, Albert Riley (Kelton Pell), who is chopping wood. Albert’s song joins with ... [read more]

Threshing at Allora (1899)

Farm workers feed wheat sheaves into a threshing machine. A conveyor belt transports the processed wheat to a large stack. In the foreground, a team of horses brings a loaded cart of wheat to the machine. [read more]

Aircraft workshop (c1926)

Men work on various parts of planes inside an open hanger at an airfield. Men file and chip away at pieces of timber. Another man inspects a plane propeller which is then shown being attached to the front of a ... [read more]

Caves and swamps (1964)

This clip, shot in Malaysia (then Malaya), shows cave and tunnel formations, and details the difficulties of negotiating the local swamps. [read more]

A rogue crocodile (2007)

Allen (Geoff Morrell) is crawling from the river, apologising for his role in an escape attempt that ended in debacle, when the crocodile sneaks up behind him at lightning speed. [read more]

Wilderness (1983)

A montage of rainforest wilderness is accompanied by an essay in voice-over extolling the value of rainforest to humankind, including that it is the place to experience nature and regeneration. [read more]

1970s Singapore (1971)

This clip begins with a montage of street scenes in Singapore accompanied by an instrumental soundtrack. Filmmaker Alan Bresnahan narrates his experience of Singapore and observes the bamboo scaffolding that adorns construction sites in the city. This is followed by ... [read more]

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