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Radio astronomy (1950)
This clip introduces radio astronomy as a new branch of science that uses radio equipment rather than telescopes to study the stars and sun. A series of shots illustrate the design of the equipment. Receiving machines measure the intensity of ... [read more]
Cable trams in Melbourne (c1935)
This clip features Melbourne’s cable trams in operation in the city’s CBD in the mid-1930s. It captures the experience of riding in a cable tram through shots from inside the cabin, as well as point-of-view shots from ... [read more]
Surviving an accident (1995)
Car drivers describe what they gained and what they lost from their car accident. [read more]
Scouts erect tower and suspension bridge (c1923)
The 1st Chatswood troop of Boy Scouts erects a tower and suspension bridge and two scouts compete in a boxing match at an oval in Melbourne. [read more]
Racism abroad (2004)
African American soldiers who were stationed in Queensland during the Second World War talk about how they were treated with prejudice by the white American military police and white American soldiers, and recall the contrasting friendliness of the Australians. Townsville ... [read more]
Motivation to compete (1988)
In this clip Michael Talbot, acting deputy state manager of New South Wales, talks about Australia Post’s new private business competitors and how the organisation is dealing with becoming a commercially based enterprise. [read more]
Decision time (2007)
Filmmaker Janet Merewether discusses the year she was born and what the situation for women was at the time. The film then shifts to a highly stylised scene of the filmmaker with a suitcase standing outside a toy house and ... [read more]
Reception and photographs (c1914)
The camera films the wedding party compose themselves for still photographs at the reception. Some of the guests are also shown. The clip ends with the bride and groom standing in front of a staircase smiling for the camera. [read more]
Better than watching (2005)
A map shows the path of the Finke Desert Race, starting in Alice Springs to the community of Finke 229 kilometres away. The racers stop for the night, then do the return ride the next day. Bernard Singer, Jamie Nyaningu ... [read more]
Stand up, be counted (2002)
The activists – now elders – tell us how The Foundation played a role in the push for the 1967 referendum. [read more]
Wards for consumption sufferers (1928)
The camera pans across the exterior of the Davis Wing – the wing which houses female consumptives – before showing patients in their beds on the outdoor veranda. Staff and patients are filmed in close-up, with many of them laughing ... [read more]
Capulets and Montagues (1996)
A TV news reporter describes a bitter rivalry in the city of Verona Beach. Engaged in the deadly feud are Romeo’s Montague family and the Capulet family of Juliet. [read more]
Safety training, injury prevention (1964)
The safety essentials of training and compulsory workwear on the Snowy Mountains Scheme are emphasised. [read more]
Mush (1993)
It’s minus 40 degrees in the Antarctic, as the husky dog team pull the sledge with two Australians aboard. [read more]
Inappropriate calls (1998)
Ambulance officers talk about inappropriate use of emergency vehicles. Some patients call an ambulance when they could have travelled to hospital by taxi or private vehicle. While this is quite legal, it could take the ambulances out of operation when ... [read more]
Municipal tramways (1910)
The camera pans across a large crowd gathered in the Malvern tram depot as a man standing on a spiral staircase addresses the audience. There are trams in a shed in the background. The camera films the first Prahran-Malvern tram ... [read more]
‘A second-class Englishman’ (1969)
Jackie (Jeanie Drynan) is leaving on an Italian ship for Europe. When her friends gather on board for a farewell drink, Noel Oakshot (David Turnbull) tells Will Gardiner (Mark McManus) that he can’t recommend him as writer for a new ... [read more]
Cinderella (c1947)
This clip depicts a marionette theatre performance of the fairytale Cinderella. It begins with a pop-up book depicting scenes from the story and then the marionettes perform the tale. It shows the puppeteers above the stage operating the marionettes and ... [read more]
Rare and colourful characters (2008)
We meet the people and chickens who will populate the film and get a glimpse of the unusual ride we’re about to embark on. [read more]
Child’s play (2002)
A black-and-white clip shows the dramatisation of a story told by the old people in Central Australia. Children are playing games – clapping, drawing in the dirt. A woman announces that some children are going to go with her to ... [read more]
