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Unemployed (1982)
Three of the characters are introduced – the first lines up for three jobs with ten hopefuls, the next gets the sack because casual staff comes cheap in an economic downturn and another stays at home to mind her sister’s ... [read more]
‘You can’t run this place without us’ (2001)
Claire McLeod (Lisa Chappell) confronts her staff after discovering they have been stealing fuel. Sister Tess (Bridie Carter) and staffers Meg Fountain (Sonia Todd) and Jodi Fountain (Rachael Carpani) look on. [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]
Byron Bay’s history (1996)
The Byron Bay area was formed 20 million years ago by volcanic activity. Forest Ecologist, Rob Kooyman, explains the history through to Aboriginal settlement. [read more]
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]
Don Bradman (c1931)
Don Bradman demonstrates his batting technique, executing a 'pull shot’, an 'off drive’ and a 'leg glance’. He is filmed from a number of different angles both in front of and behind the wicket, in slow motion and at standard ... [read more]
‘Those terrible teeth’ (2004)
Ben Cropp rates the tiger shark and the crocodile on their ability to catch prey. [read more]
Wattie and Agnes Doig remember (1983)
Wattie and Agnes Doig recall life on the Gippsland coalfields in the 1930s. [read more]
Min Min light (2007)
Mavis Malbunka, a Western Arrernte elder, tells the story of the Min Min light and its relationship to Tnorala. [read more]
‘All heart and guts’ (1956)
The chartered Danish ship Kista Dan prepares to leave Melbourne for the 1955 resupply voyage to Antarctica. The new Officer-in-Charge for the coming year at Mawson, John Bechervaise, stows his kit for the long journey ahead. Expedition leader Phillip Law ... [read more]
Loggers blockade (c1990)
As a response to the greenies blocking the logging operation, the loggers blockade the greenies so that when they leave to obtain supplies and water, they are preventing from returning. [read more]
Hunted down (2004)
In a flashback dramatisation, a police trooper arrives at the camp looking for the light-skinned child of the white man, but her mother hides her in the sugar bag. [read more]
Factory visit (1925)
The villain tries to steal the formula for Life Savers sweets by convincing Betty to take him to her father’s Life Savers factory where she gives him a guided tour. In the meantime, Cudgy, who is heartbroken from Betty’s refusal ... [read more]
Operating theatre, laboratory and x-ray (1928)
A fixed camera films the inside of an operating theatre in the Henry Meeks Pavilion of the hospital; a slow pan shows medical staff at work in the laboratory; another pan reveals a 'Violet Ray Atelier’ set up in a ... [read more]
New Talbingo underway (1967)
In Talbingo, still under construction during the Snowy Mountains Scheme, the process of establishing gardens, lawns and trees, both public and residential, is shown. [read more]
Second skin (2003)
A Balinese woman, badly burnt in the bombing of a Kuta nightclub, has been evacuated to Royal Perth Hospital. She is being treated by Dr Fiona Wood and the inventor of Second Skin, Jenni Ballantyne. [read more]
‘I don’t believe you’ (1981)
Relations between Peter (Norman Kaye) and Patricia (Wendy Hughes) are strained, but they must continue rehearsals for the play, an amateur production of August Strindberg’s The Father, directed by the flamboyantly theatrical George (John Finlayson). Peter tries to engage Patricia ... [read more]
Parliament station underground (1978)
The Melbourne Underground Loop System includes a station under Parliament House in Spring Street. This clip features an architect’s model of the planned development and draft plans for the underground platforms. An explanatory voice-over is used throughout the clip. [read more]
Eviction plan (1990)
Mr Kolopolis (voiced by Angelo Pannas) devises a plan to evict the squatters in an attempt to protect his daughter from the advances of Johnny Foetus (voiced by Adam Cullen). He approaches the residents about signing his petition asking council ... [read more]
Silver plating (c1920)
Once the pieces of the teapot have been put together by gas blowing, the teapots are dipped into a ‘striking bath’ containing liquid silver. This bath is then charged with an electric current for the ‘electro deposition of metals’. The ... [read more]
