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Hogg sees a massacre (2007)
George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is typing in a war-torn building. Just as he writes ‘The city is quiet’ he hears activity in the street. He goes to the window and sees Japanese troops herding Chinese civilians into a park ... [read more]
Changes in the school yard (2005)
We see some of the unusual class activities at Hunter Sports High School in NSW, which has been making changes in an effort to turn around high rates of truancy and suspensions. The principal is interviewed about the problematic ... [read more]
The three musketeers (1968)
As a bigger swell hits Noosa Heads in the winter of 1966, Nat Young, Bob McTavish and George Greenough try out their new boards, getting playful on the waves. [read more]
A ride in the old bus (1934)
Mr McBride (Frank Bradley) takes Monty (Frank Leighton) to Mascot to meet the ‘flying parson’ (Eric Colman). Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, playing himself, offers to take them for a joyride over Sydney. [read more]
‘This is getting very risky, pal’ (1986)
Hagan (Rod Mullinar) offers corrupt detective Calhoun (Tony Barry) a large sum of money to eliminate Sam Barlow. [read more]
‘There’s been a mistake’ (1974)
Bill Donald (Robert McDarra) arrives in the psychiatric hospital for treatment for his alcoholism, but discovers he’s in the wrong place. A sadistic orderly (Bill Hunter) begins a quiet campaign of humiliation and bullying, as Bill complains that he’s not ... [read more]
Roly ‘visits’ Honolulu (1986)
Nurse Ophelia Cox (Gosia Dobrowolska) discovers Wally (Philip Quast) and Eddie (Kelly Dingwall) have created a fake Honolulu for their father, Roly (Allan Penney). Ophelia threatens to tell Roly but Wally convinces her to join the hoodwink. [read more]
The Kaiser War (c1918)
This clip begins with a cartoon of Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II surrounded by skulls. A caption illustrates the Kaiser’s thoughts, saying that while he wished to fight in the trenches, the almighty ‘willed it otherwise’. The hand of a skeleton ... [read more]
A chance reunion (2003)
At a bus stop, old school friends Phaedra (Susan Prior) and Tia (Olivia Pigeot) run into each other for the first time in ages. They chat away, catching up with what they’ve been up to in the intervening period. [read more]
The small fortress (1985)
This clip describes the history of the Terezin concentration camp, or Theresienstadt as the Germans called it, and what might have happened to the internees. There is a map of Theresienstadt that shows the location of the large and small ... [read more]
Working as a dominatrix (2005)
Jabe is lying on the floor behind a small toy house. She lifts off the roof and we see a television inside. Jabe watches herself speaking with a friend. Images of Jabe working as a dominatrix are intercut with an ... [read more]
At the greengrocer (2003)
Phaedra (Susan Prior) nervously turns up to deliver a love poem to the greengrocer she fancies (Tia has told her she’d had sex with him – devastating to the sexually timid Phaedra). She finds the courage to go ahead, but ... [read more]
The most popular tractor in the state (1937)
This silent black-and-white clip from an Imperial Tractors cinema advertisement opens with an intertitle that tells us what we are about to see. A line of Imperial Tractors motor in single file to the railway line where they are then ... [read more]
The hen convention (1897)
Vocalist John James Villiers, with piano accompaniment, performs a song which features imitations of chooks. 'The Hen Convention’ was recorded in 1896 and is the earliest known Australian sound recording. [read more]
Living in a film script (1996)
Two villagers explain the confusion they experienced upon the first sighting of white people in the area. Filmmaker Robin Anderson speaks about arriving in the village and the way the villagers remembered them. Footage from Joe Leahy’s Neighbours (1988) ... [read more]
The Emden sails to war (1928)
The Emden puts to sea, from the harbour at Tsingtao (Qingdao) on the Chinese coast, a German colony. Old sailors and enthusiastic crowds farewell the ship, as the radio brings further news from Europe. The war that began a few ... [read more]
Igniting a turf war (2006)
Over western-style music and low-angle close-ups of Ugg boots, the narrator introduces the story: this is a battle over a trademark. We are then introduced to the main players, Bruce and Bronwyn McDougall, at their sheep farm in Western Australia. [read more]
‘Why are you here in my house?’ (1964)
While surreptitiously searching the old playhouse where the Stranger, Adam Suisse (Ron Haddrick), now lives, teenagers Bernie (Bill Levis), Jean (Janice Dinnen) and Peter (Michael Thomas) come across a strange electronic device hidden under the floorboards. They are bewildered to ... [read more]
In the old days (1979)
Frank Bourke’s old-time dance band is probably the last of its kind in Australia. He has a loyal following of country folk who are following a tradition passed down ever since their ancestors settled the land. [read more]
‘A little sign of love’ (c1969)
A woman and a man walk separately through a park as a song about Milk Tray chocolates plays over the soundtrack. The lovers see each other, come together to kiss then the man hands the woman a box of Milk ... [read more]
