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First clean your pig (1979)

The slaughtered pig is washed and shaved with care. It is then hung up and beheaded in the traditional way of slaughtering pigs. [read more]

An ancient land (1976)

Bill Peach takes us for a meander through the Flinders Ranges of South Australia. Along the way, we learn that the white squatters who settled the area in 1851 welcomed the artist Hans Heysen to stay with them while he ... [read more]

Mayhem breaks out (1985)

Judah Bow (Peter Phelps), his friends and Abigail Kirk (Imogen Annesley) race down the stairs into the brothel. Abigail uses a broomstick to trip up the men chasing them and they end up in a pile at the bottom with ... [read more]

‘Multiple personalities’ (1997)

Costume designer Lizzy Gardiner interviews the head of drama for the Seven Network, Jonathan Holmes, about the longevity of young soap stars. Gardiner also speaks to Isla Fisher about being a star of TV serials. Fisher says she has to ... [read more]

Still green (2005)

Two elder Indigenous men walk through the country, they are going to check if there is still water in the area. Specifically they are looking for the soakage. They come to a sandy bed, and to a plant called Ankere_ngkere, ... [read more]

Jenny can you sing? (1989)

Pugwall (Jason Torrens) is desperate to find a girl singer for the Orange Organics, but the pool to choose from is pretty small. There’s Daniella (Marcela Toro) from the milk bar, an assertive, feisty character who thinks she’s Tina Turner ... [read more]

Fire the star (1975)

Veteran film studio head Al Daff advises that, if a director or producer loses control of a shoot through the actions of the star, then they should get rid of the star. [read more]

‘Nonna’s spy ring’ (1999)

Josie (Pia Miranda) laments the lack of privacy in her life. Every afternoon she must visit her grandmother, Nonna Katia (Elena Cotta), where everything she does is already known, courtesy of Nonna’s network of spies. At Nonna’s house, Josie and ... [read more]

The fire (2006)

At the end of the day, Frankie’s teacher (Renee Newman-Storen) apologises for not taking him on the excursion. Frankie (Antionne Forrest-Yarran) picks up the box of matches she leaves behind. On the way home from school, he sets fire to ... [read more]

1943 Fanfare (1943)

This audio clip is from the original recording, made in London by the Queen’s Hall Light Orchestra, of Charles Williams’s 'Majestic Fanfare’. [read more]

Fire! (1992)

Lightning starts a fire in an old stump near the schoolhouse and everyone works together to put it out. [read more]

‘Served by discerning hostesses’ (1932)

Wedding cakes, chocolate-coated biscuits and puddings are also produced at the biscuit factory. Tin containers, printed gift assortment tins and packaged boxes provide the final step in the process. [read more]

Ice carving made easy (2004)

Jeff Tarrant is a master ice carver and is creating a centrepiece for a banquet. [read more]

The family that plays together stays together (1995)

Australian composer Ross Edwards talks about mixing work and family life with his wife and two children. His wife Helen, also a musician, recalls the first time she meet Ross at the Conservatorium of Music when she was a student ... [read more]

White river of life (c1950)

This 10-minute film, seen here in full, extols the health benefits of drinking and cooking with milk. At Parramatta Girls’ Home Science School, one girl daydreams what a world without milk might be like. Dairy is advocated as one of ... [read more]

The Chinese yellow streak (1975)

Crime boss Jack Wilton (George Lazenby) taunts Inspector Fang (Jimmy Wang Yu) with racial slurs at a harbourside party. They fight, but Wilton’s henchmen soon take his place. Journalist Caroline Thorne (Ros Spiers) calls a halt to the violence. [read more]

‘Sex doesn’t kill you’ (2006)

In a dramatic re-creation, police bring in Geoffrey Chandler (Nicholas Hope) to identify the body of his dead wife (Octavia Baron Martin) at the morgue. In voice-over we hear a contemporary interview with Chandler, describing being treated with suspicion by ... [read more]

‘I need you’ (2007)

Alex (Shaun Evans) meets Taylor (Scott Mechlowicz) outside a hostel in Kings Cross, Sydney. They spend a night carousing with two girls that Taylor knows. Alex wakes up beside one of them the next morning as Taylor takes a Polaroid. ... [read more]

‘Make them feel inferior’ (1995)

Babe (voiced by Christine Cavanaugh) is humiliated in his first attempt to control a pen of sheep. Fly (voiced by Miriam Margolyes) tells him that pigs are inferior, which he doesn’t believe. Rex (voiced by Hugo Weaving) feels his honour ... [read more]

Birthday party (1950)

The Gerakiteys family celebrate their daughters’ birthday in their family garden. Their younger son watches on as the girls sit with their birthday cakes. Other family members are shown and the whole family poses for a portrait. [read more]

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