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Mush (1993)

It’s minus 40 degrees in the Antarctic, as the husky dog team pull the sledge with two Australians aboard. [read more]

Preparation of the satellite (1967)

The clip shows the various scientific instruments, predominantly for upper atmospheric research, to be carried by WRESAT, as well as the final laboratory work conducted to ensure successful orbit. [read more]

View from bridge (1932)

Leslie Francis Farey films his first walk across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932 and the panoramic view he enjoyed of Sydney Harbour. Farey has captured other curious pedestrians inspecting the newly-built bridge, the tramlines and Sydney Harbour from Kirribilli ... [read more]

‘Not everybody’s the same’ (2003)

In this clip we are introduced to Bob, Roy, Mick and Ann, all over sixty years of age. They share their thoughts on sexuality and relationships in their later years, including life as a widower, caring for a partner, changes ... [read more]

Sydney Harbour and Bridge scenes (c1932)

This home movie clip, shot by the Archibald family, is taken from on board a boat in Sydney Harbour. It shows various steamships and boats on Sydney Harbour as well as the Sydney Harbour Bridge, soon after it was completed ... [read more]

Chopping down a tree (1920)

This clip shows two lumberjacks chopping down a eucalyptus tree in 1920. [read more]

Australian night sky (1993)

Australian painter Tim Storrier creates a nocturnal landscape painting from photographs and his imagination. [read more]

Passionate painter (1988)

We see samples of Tony Tuckson’s later work in a gallery, while in voice-over friends and colleagues discuss his work, and the changes he went through in later life. [read more]

Don Bradman’s captaincy (1982)

Former international cricketer Bill O’Reilly recalls Don Bradman’s captaincy during the 1937 and 1938 test cricket series. [read more]

Fourth Liberty Loan (1943)

In close-up a soldier screams ‘fire’ and a barrage of bombing in a nightscape is subtitled with text while voice-over urges the public to contribute to the Fourth Liberty Loan. ‘War costs big money: the boys are ready. So back ... [read more]

It’s war! (1982)

The recruiting drive is on and throughout the bush there are more than enough young men willing to drop everything for the adventure of war. Billy (Scott Burgess) and Walter (Scott McGregor) have been waiting for this moment with barely ... [read more]

San Francisco opens its golden gate to UNCIO (1945)

This is a collection of mute colour and black-and-white footage shot by members of the Australian delegation to the 1945 UNCIO Conference in San Francisco, and shot in Hawaii during the delegates’ stopover on the way home. [read more]

Backyard play (1932)

This simple home movie clip taken by Leslie Francis Farey from 1932 shows us children candidly playing in a suburban backyard in Melbourne. Three children play with a pram, doll and tin drum. The youngest child is holding what looks ... [read more]

Paper consumption (1991)

Over a time-lapse sequence that shows people buying stationery, wrapping paper and cards, narrator Noni Hazelhurst describes the history, uses and increased consumption of paper and paper products. As the narrator lists the ways that paper packages, displays, advertises and ... [read more]

‘My final statement’ (2004)

Euthanasia campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke says he advises many people intent on suicide. Seventy-nine-year-old Lisette Nigot writes her final letter. [read more]

Musical trams (1988)

Melbourne’s cable trams operated from 1885 to 1940. Jaunty music accompanies a tram ride through Melbourne in the 1920s. [read more]

Insulin (1997)

Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Company supplies six million people with insulin each day. Twelve-year-old diabetic James Jarvis interviews Dr Richard Di Marchi about insulin. [read more]

Hunting shark (1939)

This clip shows Coogee Beach, protected by a shark-proof enclosure; a man going out hunting for sharks; and a larger trawler which puts forward the ‘fight against the ever present menace of sharks’. [read more]

On being young and Muslim in Australia (2005)

Waleed Aly and Susan Carland spend a great deal of their spare time talking to other Australians about their faith. They’re very much the ideal Aussie couple. They’re also devout Muslims, Waleed was born to the faith while Susan is ... [read more]

The editing experiment (2001)

Using Sophie (Gemma Bishop) in her wheelchair to shoot dolly shots ends in tears when Ross (Alex Tsitsopoulos) accidentally tips her out. Meanwhile Oscar (Damien Bodie) shows Anna (Lucia Smyrk) how he has edited the footage he shot of her ... [read more]

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