Australian
Screen

an NFSA website

4497 clips prev 1 2 ... 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 ... 224 225 next

Angels and monsters (1988)

The villagers have emerged on the other side of their deep pit and discovered a glittering modern city. One of them has pronounced this the work of God, which is why Ulf (Noel Appleby) doesn’t realise the danger he’s in ... [read more]

Violins not guns (2005)

The Australian Chamber Orchestra under its leader, renowned violinist Richard Tognetti, has set up an outreach program for mentoring young teenagers. The musicians bring their music practice and music appreciation to a high school at Cabramatta in the western suburbs ... [read more]

Christmas Day at home, 1945 (1945)

With all three brothers home in time for Christmas, the men relax in the sun for an afternoon drink with their uncle Stan. Mrs Sprod, Kathleen and her aunt Mary also enjoy Christmas day and smoke a cigarette in the ... [read more]

Reunited (2004)

Rosie is packing her bag to move out of the welfare house, and a young woman who is to take over her room is introduced to her. The young girl has the same last name as hers, Rosie asks her ... [read more]

‘My heart would melt’ (2004)

Afghan Shah recalls how he courted Habiba and won her heart. Both people were the innocent victims of landmines. [read more]

A ‘stroke of evil genius’ (1999)

Elgar (Neri Marg Downey) flatters the evil Galiel (Michael Carmen) as she listens to his planning. As his crystal loses its power, he is rapidly weakening and must find the other three crystals as soon as possible. He decides to ... [read more]

Parliament opens (1925)

This Australasian Gazette newsreel from 1925 shows the Governor of Victoria, Colonel George Rous, 3rd Earl of Stradbroke, arriving by car at Parliament House, Melbourne to open Parliament. He salutes an Army Guard of Honour before entering Parliament House. After ... [read more]

Manila Bay cruise (1974)

The then Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda Marcos host a Manila Bay Cruise on 12 February 1974 for the then prime minister Gough Whitlam and his wife Mrs Margaret Whitlam. [read more]

Hurley’s Australia (2004)

In the last decade of his life, the broke photographer Frank Hurley was forced to reinvent himself. He turned to pictorial and landscape photography, and created some of the most popular images of Australia after the Second World War. [read more]

Children playing (c1909)

Four young children are filmed playing with strips of 35mm film in the Higgins’ back garden. The two toddlers and two older children hold the camera’s gaze and medium close-ups of each of the children capture their expressions clearly. [read more]

Magic Picture Maker (1959)

Exiting the rocket, Rosemary asks the children at home to prepare for story time. Rosemary introduces the Magic Picture Maker, a talking illustration machine, who is feeling sorry for himself because he was not invited to join in the rocket ... [read more]

‘You killed Basil’ (2009)

Eddie (Luke Carroll) works as a cleaner at Perth Museum. The security guard asks him to finish up. Eddie is surprised at the museum by his cousin Charlie (Leon Burchill), who inadvertently kills the security guard’s cat, Basil. Eddie and ... [read more]

Building pyramids (1992)

Young Bert (Kevin Jones) is caught up in the dream to build a huge church and a religious community in the middle of nowhere. He’s willing to give his all without realising that the dream is demented and Brother O’Neill ... [read more]

Life in exile (1985)

Colonel Berry (Simon Chilvers) has been put in charge of this POW camp when all he yearns for is to be at the battlefront with the Australian troops. Meanwhile, the internees are homesick for their homeland and their culture, ... [read more]

Beatlemania (1964)

This clip begins with news footage of the Beatles standing on a balcony in Melbourne, waving to fans in the streets below. Paul McCartney plays with a boomerang and laughs with the crowd. The Beatles song 'Love Me Do’ is ... [read more]

Lionel Murphy (1970)

Federal Opposition shadow minister Lionel Murphy pledges his government’s opposition to the Vietnam War. He says ‘we are here to end the war in Vietnam’. [read more]

Million dollar riff (2005)

In the ‘Million Dollar Riff’ round, the RocKwiz Orkestra plays well-known musical riffs while contestants compete to name artists and songs. [read more]

Food value (c1941)

This advertisement begins with a black-and-white sequence of the Australian landscape inside a map of the country. The male voice-over announces that while in the past we were a ‘land of plenty’, a Federal Parliamentary Committee has warned that the ... [read more]

Do-it-yourself wireless (1925)

Mr Jones unpacks all the parts of his newly bought wireless and tries to construct it. Two weeks later he demonstrates the wireless to his friends but to his disappointment, it doesn’t work. [read more]

‘Watcha gunna do with it?’ (c1988)

Vera (Margaret Ford) explains why she and her son George (Bill McCluskey) are living on the children’s land and how she has saved the trees from being cut down by loggers. [read more]

prev 1 2 ... 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 ... 224 225 next