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‘You used to like me, Lois’ (2011)

Drunk and emotional at one o’clock in the morning, Karen (Shai Pittman) turns up at her mother’s house to confront her about their tattered relationship. A neighbour complains and Lois (Marcia Langton) comes out of the house to see her ... [read more]

Codenamed Kite (1956)

The explosion of Kite, one of the four nuclear fission bombs tested at Maralinga between September and October 1956. [read more]

Building a motor body (c1925)

Large power presses stamp the panels for the car bodies. As the press is lifted, one man removes the panel and another places a flat sheet into the machine. A worker in goggles welds the panels together. The finished sections ... [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]

E-Post (1985)

This clip explains the procedure involved in the new E-Post service. [read more]

Memo (2002)

Joe Hill (Peter O’Brien) confronts his boss Ted Hudson (Richard Carter) over a memo he has received about ‘appearance and personal hygiene’. Then, to his surprise, his daughter Ruby (Bree Beadman) shows up at the office. [read more]

Don Bradman (c1931)

Don Bradman demonstrates his batting technique, executing a 'pull shot’, an 'off drive’ and a 'leg glance’. He is filmed from a number of different angles both in front of and behind the wicket, in slow motion and at standard ... [read more]

Irian Jaya’s history (1993)

The United Nations gave Indonesia control of Irian Jaya in 1962, despite the protests of the Papuans. Some 20,000 people have since died in conflicts in the highland provinces between the indigenous people and the Indonesian army. [read more]

A slice of sabotage (1937)

Darley (Frank Harvey) and Charles Blake (Campbell Copelin) plot the sabotage of Stephen Burbridge’s timber-cutting operations. Blake denies he’s engaged to Burbridge’s daughter Joan (Shirley Ann Richards); he’s already involved with Darley’s own sister Claire (Aileen Britton). When Jim Thornton ... [read more]

Young music (1986)

The young congregation takes the lead in reading from the Bible and singing catchy songs accompanied by guitar. Please note there are some intermittent audio and visual glitches in this clip. [read more]

Hitching a ride (2005)

The Huygens probe must release from the Cassini mother ship and begin its own exploration of Titan, the biggest of Saturn’s moons, offering scientists information which they hope will tell them more about the origins of the universe. [read more]

Dame Nellie Melba and her cockatoo (c1927)

Dame Nellie Melba walks along the veranda of the house, puts up an umbrella and walks into the garden. She then dances and sings beside a cockatoo. [read more]

From script to screen (1988)

Colin Rogers (John Hargreaves) and his writing partner Mike McCord (Chris Haywood) pitch a script to investor Malcolm Bennett (Dennis Miller). Colin and Mike clash during the making of the production. [read more]

Play, health and education (1962)

At Halls Creek, the Australian Inland Mission (AIM) conducts a hostel for schoolchildren from the surrounding areas, where they play and learn. AIM staff look on as the children play an educational game on the hostel ... [read more]

Mother and son (1977)

Len’s mother (Joy Hruby) is upset that he is leaving home, to live in Sydney with his wife Barbara. Len (Bryan Brown) broods in his room, after she tells him he’s a no-hoper like his father. He picks up an ... [read more]

Hélène Kirsova on stage (c1936)

Hélène Kirsova performs in this excerpt from the one-act ballet, Le Beau Danube. Ewan Murray-Will films the action from an elevated position left of the stage. [read more]

‘I’m a black Australian’ (2005)

Kenny puts on a cassette tape. He moves through the radio station to the sound of the music. It is a speech by Gary Foley with music playing in the background. Kenny pauses to sing the words to the Indigenous ... [read more]

Home to Galway (2004)

After her dramatic first visit to Australia, it’s early morning when Hannah (Lynn Styles) finally returns to her boarding school in Galway. Her roommate Tara (Danielle Fox-Clarke) is suspicious. Snooping around, she is surprised to find beach sand in Hannah’s ... [read more]

Why do two-footers eat more? (1992)

Rocky the frill necked Lizard observes and records the activities of the humans, or ‘two footers’, commentating throughout each Lift off episode. Occasionally the viewer will glimpse him with his camera, and at the end he reports back on what ... [read more]

Captain Cook’s cottage (1938)

Speaking to camera, Mr Russell Grimwade explains the purchase of Captain Cook’s cottage for the people of Victoria and the erection of a monument in its place at Great Ayton, Yorkshire, England to appease any sense of loss. Then in ... [read more]

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