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A tribute to Tamworth (1995)
Townsfolk and visitors to the Tamworth Country Music Festival pay tribute to the town. [read more]
Surprise hats (2006)
Having created ‘surprise’ hats from bits and pieces from the Useful Box, Justine (Clarke) and Rhys (Muldoon) count down from three before presenting the hats to each other. They then put on their hats and sing ‘Where did you get ... [read more]
Lifesavers march (1938)
This clip from a home movie taken by Dr Ewan Murray-Wills shows members of various lifesaving clubs marching in the official parade marking Australia’s 150th anniversary of white settlement. [read more]
‘Things to sort out’ (2006)
At the isolated farmhouse he has inherited, John (Mark Constable) hears voices from his past. He asks wife Emily (Victoria Hill) and son Edward (William Traegar) to stay at a motel while he sorts things out. [read more]
Death at your elbow (1937)
A union agitator urges Burbridge’s timber workers to strike for better pay, or join the opposition firm, run by Charles Blake. Jim Thornton (Frank Leighton) knocks him down and wins the respect of the men, by appealing to their professionalism ... [read more]
Christmas season in Melbourne (1928)
This clip begins with a shot of a crowd (mostly women) gathering around suitcases on the pavement outside Flinders Street Station in Melbourne, just before Christmas 1928. Men are filmed loading suitcases onto the running boards of cars parked on ... [read more]
It’s like that (2003)
The animated short It’s Like That can be viewed here in full. Three baby-bird puppets representing actual children held in captivity talk about their experiences and their fears. [read more]
Lessons on survival (1978)
Essie Coffey gives the children lessons on how to survive in the bush. She shows them different sorts of fruits and trees. [read more]
‘Australia through Aboriginal eyes’ (1992)
This clip includes the ending of the speech. This is the section where Keating continues with his message of hope for significant change in Australian society. He outlines some of the changes that he can see already, such as a ... [read more]
Somewhere special (2005)
Alison Anderson MLA Member for MacDonnell addresses a protest rally about standing up to the federal government and their intention to dump nuclear waste in the region. People march in peaceful protest. David Sweeney of the Australian Conservation Foundation ... [read more]
Car boys (1986)
Jimmy (Ned Manning) arrives at a car crash scene with his brother Frank (Ollie Hall), a tow-truck driver. Frank and a rival driver both claim rights to the wreckage. During their argument with police a gang of ‘car boys’ arrives. ... [read more]
‘Keep everything nice, use ice’ (c1934)
A tradesperson is fixing a broken electric refrigerator in the kitchen. A male voice-over suggests an ice refrigerator is superior because 'ice never breaks down’. Men carrying large blocks of ice on their shoulders file into the home. Each block ... [read more]
‘All I have to offer you is me’ (2009)
Delilah (Marissa Gibson) nurses Samson (Rowan McNamara) back to health. She bathes him in the water trough, gives him fresh clothes to wear and makes him a meal. As Samson sits in the wheelchair listening to music on the radio, ... [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]
Judging a book by its cover (2007)
This is the opening title sequence to the series. Chief Librarian Frances O’Brien (Robyn Butler) prepares for her day at the Middleton Interactive Learning Centre, and later leads a meeting with staff members Dawn (Heidi Arena), Matthew (Stephen Ballantyne), Ky ... [read more]
A tense opening (1976)
Helen (Jenny Lee), alone and very pregnant, has slipped and fallen while in the garden at Freda’s place. The trauma precipitates her labour and things look grim until Barry (Brian Wenzel) arrives to pick up his things. Even then it ... [read more]
‘Love doesn’t feed you’ (2001)
Lola (Lola Marceli) has begun to go out with men, in the hope of getting some money to live on. One of these is Bruno (Silvio Ofria), her late husband’s best friend. She has warned the younger Stefano (Alex Dimitriades) ... [read more]
‘One wrong decision’ (1999)
Desperate for a swim, Jimmy (Heath Ledger) buries an envelope containing $10,000 in the sand at Bondi beach. While he’s in the water, street kids Helen (Mariel McClorey) and Pete (Evan Sheaves) steal the money. The ghost of Jimmy’s brother ... [read more]
Clearing methods invited bushfire (1955)
The clip shows how the process of regular and repeated burning and clearing in the Snowy Mountains had caused a series of disastrous environmental events, leading inevitably to large tracts of unproductive land. [read more]
Hector, Hector, Hector! (1927)
The race is on and Hector looks in trouble. The radio race-caller (Tal Ordell) becomes increasingly excited as Poo, Windbag and Stonker fight for the lead – but Hector isn’t done yet. [read more]
