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‘What do I see? Afternoon tea!’ (1990)
A new animated sequence brings Mr Squiggle’s rocket to earth. Meanwhile Rebecca (Hetherington) is setting up afternoon tea. Rocket touches down and Mr Squiggle (voiced by Norman Hetherington), with umbrella parachute, lands soon after. They call Blackboard to come and ... [read more]
Magnetic Island (1926)
An intertitle describing Magnetic Island – only six miles from Townsville – introduces sepia-tinted images of passengers on board the daily service from Townsville. Another title card explaining Magnetic Island’s beaches and picturesque thatched roofed bungalows precedes a green-tinted and ... [read more]
Frank Thring and his stars (1931)
Dressed in a dinner suit, Frank Thring – film director and head of Efftee Film Studios – addresses the audience in a speech to camera which introduces the studio’s first all-Australian talking picture program. Thring outlines his hopes for the ... [read more]
Safe uranium mining (1997)
We see the location of the proposed mine, and a description of the proposed new road, followed by shots of demonstrators against the mine. Phillip Shirvington, CEO of Energy Resources of Australia, the mining company at Jabiluka, says that ... [read more]
Survivor (2006)
Historical footage of Jimmy Little. Jimmy’s daughter Frances Peters-Little talks about her father, and how their shared passion for music ensured a great family bond. Russell Taylor talks about Jimmy Little overcoming stereotypes. [read more]
Sagrada Família Barcelona (1974)
Catalonian architect, Antonio Gaudí’s greatest work, the Cathedral of the Holy Family is still under construction. Part one took 43 years to build. Gaudí felt that architecture and religion were inseparable. [read more]
What have those little monsters been telling you? (1978)
Laura (Susannah Fowle) joins the other girls for an illicit midnight feast, with her cake and other supplies stolen from the kitchen. Maria (Sigrid Thornton) terrifies them with stories of what happens in childbirth. During a break in her piano ... [read more]
‘Most People I Know (Think That I’m Crazy)’ (1972)
This is an excerpt from the 1972 single release of ‘Most People I Know (Think That I’m Crazy)’ by Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs. [read more]
‘What’s your name? What’s your father?’ (1978)
Laura (Susannah Fowle) arrives in the refectory at her new school, an upper class ladies’ college in Melbourne, carrying a cake made by her mother. She is frightened and alone. The deputy headmistress, Miss Chapman (Patrick Kennedy) tries to be ... [read more]
Cheap blonde (1998)
You can watch Cheap Blonde here in its entirety. This experimental film rearranges the same sentence 22 times: ‘A famous filmmaker said: “Cinema is the history of men filming women”’, while deconstructing the video image of a woman bathing in ... [read more]
Dulkaninna Station (2000)
George Bell of the Dulkaninna Station and his family have relied on the mailman for over a century. Mail was first delivered by camel, then Kruse delivered it by truck and now it comes by light aircraft. Bell and Kruse ... [read more]
Saltwater Freshwater (2003)
This clip shows archival photographs of the family. Kathy Mills tells of meeting her husband David, and how music was an element that attracted her to her husband. [read more]
‘Not a career’ (1997)
Ashley Paske was a television serial star for a brief incandescent moment. Prompted by this popularity, he left for the UK to work in theatre. He returned to Oz but did not find work as an actor. He is now ... [read more]
Processing peanuts (1954)
At the peanut processing plants, the peanuts come out of large roasting ovens to be aired and cooled. In the next phase, peanuts go through the blanching machine and have their husks removed. Women operators in a factory production line ... [read more]
‘Sue me, Phil’ (2008)
Dominick Dunne reacts angrily to the declaration of a mistrial in the Phil Spector murder case. [read more]
Propaganda or news? (1978)
Film editor Geoff (Bryan Brown) makes a political joke, and a statement, by tampering with a newsreel to make fun of the newly-elected Prime Minister, Mr Menzies. His conservative boss, AG Marwood (Don Crosby), is not amused. [read more]
‘I will survive’ (1994)
Priscilla, the bus, has broken down in the desert. An Aboriginal man (Alan Dargin) invites the three drag artists to his nearby camp, where they put on an impromptu show. Everyone joins in, including a didgeridoo player. [read more]
‘There is nothing a horse can do, but bear it’ (1978)
Gerry Barker has taken his family and Black Beauty on a happy Sunday picnic. On their way home they meet old Sam. Black Beauty is horrified to discover that Sam’s worn-out old horse is the once spirited but now beaten ... [read more]
‘God is better than football’ (2003)
As Harvie’s Alzheimer’s disease worsens, his nursing home is visited by a church group, entertaining him with the song 'God is better than football, God is better than beer’. Harvie sees in his imagination the residents of the home animated ... [read more]
‘Will you go out with me?’ (1981)
Debbie (Nell Schofield) and Sue (Jad Capelja) have been accepted by the surfie chicks. They are invited to ‘the paddock’ after school, where Tracey (Sandy Paul) introduces Debbie to a boy she says likes her. Bruce (Jay Hackett), who has ... [read more]
