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Municipal tramways (1910)
The camera pans across a large crowd gathered in the Malvern tram depot as a man standing on a spiral staircase addresses the audience. There are trams in a shed in the background. The camera films the first Prahran-Malvern tram ... [read more]
Your daily diet (c1947)
Nutrition experts tell us that to keep in top physical condition depends on what we eat (or don’t eat). Examples from the main food groups are laid out on a table. These groups are described as the protective foods, the ... [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]
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]
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]
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]
‘I want my mum’ (1995)
Farmer Hoggett (James Cromwell) arrives home with his new pig, causing great excitement among Fly’s litter of puppies. The little pig is indignant when Fly (voiced by Miriam Margolyes) calls him stupid. Fly takes pity on him and becomes a ... [read more]
Protecting yourself from accidents (1958)
Helmets and eye shields are shown to protect a welder’s eyes against damage caused by heat, sparks, ultraviolet rays and dust. Scenarios illustrate the danger of not wearing – or incorrectly wearing – safety gear, followed by a demonstration in ... [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]
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]
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]
Australia’s wild shores (1987)
Jack Thompson introduces us to two Melbourne businessmen passionate about their hang-gliding. They’re out to break the world record recently set by an American. [read more]
Looking for horses (2001)
The stop-motion animated short Looking for Horses can be viewed here in its entirety. During a summer holiday, two sisters (voiced by Gabrielle Vening and Celesta Vinckier) discover the truth about the marriage of their parents (voiced by Christina Louis ... [read more]
No trees (2005)
In a sweeping shot of the mining fields, hills of ore dot the landscape. Mr Norman Hayes Jagamarra, sitting in this landscape, speaks to camera about how he moved to Coober Pedy after first droving, and then brick making work ... [read more]
Corroboree (1950)
This is an excerpt from a recording of the ballet suite from 'Corroboree’, composed by John Antill. Performed in the Ashfield Town Hall on 5 December 1950 for capturing by His Master’s Voice, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra is conducted by ... [read more]
Ballarat (c1960)
Two intertitles introduce this segment – ‘Ballarat’ and ‘Shell House’. The clip begins with shots of Shell House which has walls covered in murals made from shells. Identifiable images on the walls include a crest which says ‘Australian Commonwealth Military ... [read more]
Those magnificent men in their flying machines (1919)
Ground staff swing the propeller on an RE8 aircraft of No. 3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, at an airfield in northern France, in late 1917 or early 1918. At Clairmarais aerodrome – probably around late April or May 1918 – ... [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]
A concert at forty miles an hour! (1925)
The Wydawakes take their portable Magnavox Wireless in the car so they all can enjoy the novel experience of listening to music on their way to a picnic. [read more]
‘Waltzing Matilda’ (1927)
The first recorded version of Waltzing Matilda, recorded in London in 1927, by John Collinson, a British-born Australian tenor. [read more]
