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Annual road race (c1918)
This clip shows highlights from the annual challenge road race for the Professor Anderson Stuart Cup. Competitors run from Double Bay to Rose Bay in Sydney’s harbour suburbs. They are shown at the start of the race, and then later ... [read more]
Bobby and Pikey make history (1983)
Tommy Woodcock (Tom Burlinson) runs Phar Lap onto the track at Flemington for the 1930 Melbourne Cup. The horse has been kept in hiding after an attempt on his life; the race has been delayed 15 minutes waiting for the ... [read more]
‘What are my chances?’ (2005)
Returning from her father’s funeral, Meryl (Justine Clarke) daydreams a series of disasters that might happen to the train she’s riding. In one, the train runs into a tunnel that collapses on top of it. In an earlier scene, a ... [read more]
Worlds apart (1999)
In the underground world of North Col, Noah’s sister Becky (Kate Keltie) helps Dr Pretorius (Gerard Kennedy) try to work out what has happened to Noah (Jeffrey Walker). At the same time, Noah is trying to rescue Sundance (Daniel Daperis) ... [read more]
Wokabout Marketing (1996)
Andrew Rose is a marketing executive based in Port Moresby. He organises a troupe of actors who perform vignettes in remote villages to promote the purchase of Western goods. Omo, the washing powder, is demonstrated. [read more]
Conrad Martens’s New South Wales (1978)
Watercolourist Conrad Martens settled in NSW in 1835, remaining there until his death in 1878. He painted a valuable visual record of life in the young colony, and we see many examples of early Sydney. [read more]
Monkey up and monkey down (2006)
The fourth and current version of the opening Play School titles run and then presenter Justine Clarke uses a monkey in the cardboard jungle ‘Opposites Calendar’, and a song ('Monkey up a tree’) to introduce the concept of up and ... [read more]
Alcohol, violence and a pathway forward (2011)
Local policeman Texas (Greg Tait) kicks off the first men’s group meeting in his small town in the Kimberley. Meanwhile in the city, TJ (Dean Daley-Jones) is at a pub. He tries ringing his son, Bullet, in the Kimberley but ... [read more]
Businesses and street life, Hawthorn (1906)
In a series of panning shots, the camera films the businesses, workers and daily life in Burwood Road, West Hawthorn. Businesses shown include a farrier, an estate agent, a chemist, a glassware shop and a butcher. [read more]
Ex-servicemen rally at Melbourne Cricket Ground (1954)
This clip from a home movie, filmed by Australian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, begins with an excited crowd at the Melbourne Cricket Ground as they stand and take off their hats on the arrival of Queen Elizabeth II and ... [read more]
Wild Dog Dreaming (2004)
Aerial views show Mount Gillen. The voice-over narration tells us about the Wild Dog Dreaming, when a local dog ancestor battled an intruder dog and eventually transformed into a rock embedded into the ground. Shots show the sacred rock in ... [read more]
Oodnadatta (1927)
The small inland township of Oodnadatta in South Australia is on the AIM patrolling route. This clip includes people on camels, local buildings such as the AIM nursing hostel, and AIM ... [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]
Making a steam train (1969)
Following the original opening titles, presenters Don Spencer and Anne Haddy introduce the first activity: making a steam train out of a washing basket, plant pot, two ‘clean’ rubbish-tin lids and part of a garden rake. This sequence segues into ... [read more]
Flowing with milk and honey (1940)
A delegation of local farmers asks Dad Rudd (Bert Bailey) to stand for the local seat, after the death of the sitting member. Dad is reluctant, until he learns that Henry Webster, a big landowner, wants to limit the size ... [read more]
Adventurous filmmaking (1933)
This clip taken during Shackleton’s 1917 Antarctic expedition shows Frank Hurley filming from the specially constructed platform rigged under the bosun and the bow of the Endurance as it smashes through ice flows. Frank Hurley climbs back down with his ... [read more]
A totally casual thing (1976)
Penny (Briony Behets) comes home in the middle of the day and finds her husband Richard (John Derum) with another woman, Dee (Judy Morris). Both women are surprised and humiliated. After Dee leaves, Penny and Richard argue about Richard’s lack ... [read more]
Serbian identity (1997)
Author Dusko Tomic talks about how, on a Paris radio program, he identified as a Serb for the first time. While proud of Serb inventor Nikola Tesla, he expressed shame for the atrocities against humanity carried out during the Bosnian ... [read more]
A bush boxing ring (2007)
After watching a newsreel of Lionel Rose, Ed (Xavier Samuel) and Paddy (Clarence John Ryan) build their own boxing ring in the wheat stubble, using old fencing materials. With only one pair of gloves, they take one each and spar ... [read more]
‘You’re not from this country’ (2011)
TJ (Dean Daley-Jones) travels north until he arrives in a small town and meets a warm and welcoming old man, Uncle Black (Douglas Macale). He is invited to a party, where adults and children are listening and dancing to the ... [read more]
