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White Rose Flour Mill (c1927)
The clip begins with a scene at the front of the White Rose Flour Mill building on Bulwara Road, Ultimo. People walk by. A truck and car are shown driving down the street and people talking outside the building. John ... [read more]
The break-up (1979)
Cath (Lorna Lesley) comes home after spending the night with another man. She tries to communicate with Mike (Sam Neill) but he doesn’t want to talk. Next morning he suggests they break-up. [read more]
1970s Singapore (1971)
This clip begins with a montage of street scenes in Singapore accompanied by an instrumental soundtrack. Filmmaker Alan Bresnahan narrates his experience of Singapore and observes the bamboo scaffolding that adorns construction sites in the city. This is followed by ... [read more]
Welcome to Kookaburra Springs (1972)
Stanley Evans (Harry Secombe) is welcomed to Kookaburra Springs by pilot Bill (Bobby Limb), publican Mick Cassidy (John Meillon) and Mick’s wife, Sal (Dawn Lake). The Cassidys’ young son, Stevie (Dennis Jordan), is planning to play pranks on the new ... [read more]
My father’s country (2006)
Arrernte Mat-utjarra Elder Rupert Max Stuart’s voice runs over the image of the unfolding night in a riverbed outside of Alice Springs. Max tells us he’s come home. He’s 77 years old and has returned to his father’s country. It’s ... [read more]
Cities (1996)
A fascinating and discursive conversation between interviewer Andrea Stretton and Salman Rushdie, the Booker Prize-winning novelist and essayist, about his interest in great cities. For Rushdie, the city is where diverse cultures collide, intermarry, eat each other’s food and sometimes ... [read more]
Hunting wombat (2006)
Wanda Miller talks about working with Gladys Miller to design language programs that will allow Wirangu to be taught in schools. Wanda’s grandchildren are Wirrangul through her husband. Wombat is the traditional food of the Wirangu people, and the children’s ... [read more]
You must like your characters (1992)
Andrea Stretton comments on the strong sense of family in Carey’s fiction and he tells us he has no real idea of family. He was sent to boarding school at the age of 10 and his siblings were a decade ... [read more]
Tim Tams and tragedy (1994)
Muriel (Toni Collette) has run away to Sydney, where she shares a flat with Rhonda (Rachel Griffiths), her new best friend. A shy young man called Bruce (Matt Day) asks Muriel on a date, which turns farcical when they get ... [read more]
Lunar research (1992)
Carbotek is an American firm working on a technique to extract the oxygen locked up in the surface of the moon. They are working with NASA to explore this technique as a future source of ... [read more]
Bruce Samazan (1997)
Bruce Samazan went from brickie’s labourer to soap star in an instant. He won a Logie for Most Popular Talent in Australian TV. He is the only actor to have long running roles in E Street, Neighbours and Home and ... [read more]
If only I could get up (1998)
An alarm clock goes off. In different parts of the city a young woman and a woman with severe cerebral palsy both lie in their beds. The former, day carer Madelaine (Joey Kennedy), turns the alarm off and goes back ... [read more]
Tough love (2011)
Released from prison the day before, Karen (Shai Pittman) wakes up in a motel room to the sound of the cleaners at the door. Feeling sick from the night before, Karen quickly dresses and lets them into the room. As ... [read more]
Snake for Christmas (1947)
After two days trying to find the thieves, the children have no food, so they must eat snake. Neza (Neza Saunders) is pleased with Helen’s cooking of the snake but Michael (Michael Yardley) can’t face it. Neza offers some live ... [read more]
War paint (1999)
A man tells his daughter he is going to the pub. Melanie (Alyssa McClelland) is waiting for her friends to pick her up and take her to the dance. A car pulls up. Three youths step out and want to ... [read more]
‘Shoot straight’ (1973)
Voice-over accompanied by still photos details the judicial process leading to the execution of 'Breaker’ Morant and Peter Hancock – Australian soldiers attached to the British Army in the Boer War 1899-1902. A re-enactment of the execution is well ... [read more]
Peace! (1945)
This clip shows joyous celebrations erupting in Sydney streets at the declaration of peace after the Japanese surrender. Footage includes enormous crowds crammed shoulder to shoulder in the city. A tracking shot from a moving vehicle shows the famous image ... [read more]
‘Peculiar indeed’ (1989)
Retracing the footsteps of explorer Ernest Giles, Ted Egan visits ‘one of the true marvels of the centre’, a valley that Giles called ‘Glen of Palms’. The valley is home to a species of palm tree that exists nowhere else ... [read more]
Dorothy meets the Tin Man (1976)
Dorothy (Joy Dunstan) and the surfie (Bruce Spence) stop for petrol, where a truculent mechanic (Michael Carman) ignores them — until he gets a look at Dorothy. [read more]
Make your avatar – meet Indy (2004)
As her cranky self, Saskia (Hannah Greenwood) had no success trying to talk to online to Max Hammer (Cameron Nugent), who is using her music without her permission. This time she creates an avatar to get his attention. 'Indy’ is ... [read more]
