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Freedom machine (1995)

While the camera caresses the gleaming panels of a car, drivers describe in voice-over their emotions about cars. [read more]

Inside a new suburban home (1949)

The ‘Smith family’ do some gardening outside the front of their new suburban home before turning to walk inside. In the children’s bedroom, Mrs Smith places toys on the children’s beds, and in the main bedroom she makes the bed. ... [read more]

Reception and photographs (c1914)

The camera films the wedding party compose themselves for still photographs at the reception. Some of the guests are also shown. The clip ends with the bride and groom standing in front of a staircase smiling for the camera. [read more]

Sydney Olympics opening ceremony (2006)

Agnes joins a group of 350 Aboriginal women from the central desert to rehearse and then perform the inma kungkarangkalpa at the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. [read more]

Badger restored (2000)

Restoration of the Badger started in 1996 and was done by volunteers. Neil Weidenbach, the organiser, comments on the restoration. [read more]

Women’s business (1997)

Women performing chores. The clip shows the different social responsibilities of different members of the community. [read more]

Fire at Hornsby (c1908)

People look at the burnt out shell of a building in Hornsby as the camera pans across the damage. [read more]

Kymmy arrives too late (2000)

Kymmy (Olivia Patten) arrives at the foster carer’s (Heather Mitchell) home in the city but misses her appointment with the department. [read more]

Highway reconstruction (1976)

An aerial shot shows the Clybucca Flat section of the Pacific Highway after the completion of reconstruction work by the NSW Department of Main Roads in 1976. Traffic passes over a joint in a conventional concrete pavement to illustrate ... [read more]

Nobby’s Nuts (1988)

The Nobby’s Nuts 'pub posters’ advertisement can be viewed here in its entirety. The characters in three vintage pub posters start to interact when the football from one poster lands on the table in the nightclub poster. The initial tension ... [read more]

Euthanasia (1997)

The Northern Territory government passed the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act but the Australian Medical Association is against it. Speaking to camera as he drives around Darwin, Dr Philip Nitschke talks about the federal government move to reverse the ... [read more]

Getting ready (1999)

Ru, applying facial paint, speaks about the particular head decorations for the Amb Kor and explains the significance of the colours in terms of their tradition. Professor Andrew Strathern is being painted up, while men are working on Ru’s headdress. ... [read more]

‘I wanted to be someone else’ (2007)

A woman reflects on her arrival in Australia with her mother as a Cambodian refugee. She wonders about her absent father, who her mother will not tell her about. [read more]

‘Are you going to hell?’ (2006)

Kenny (Shane Jacobson) takes his son Jesse (Jesse Jacobson) to see his grandfather (Ronald Jacobson), at a trailer park outside Melbourne. On the way, Kenny explains to his son why he doesn’t believe in God. At the mobile home, Kenny’s ... [read more]

Four types of mail (1966)

The clip explains the four types of mail to be sorted and the way in which the postal sorting officers and the customs officers, at the new Redfern Mail Exchange, work in conjunction with the mechanised sorting equipment. [read more]

Family (2001)

The elder is sitting near a rock. His voice-over narration runs atop paintings depicting the relationship between people and dogs. The elder tells us the importance of dogs to the people of this area, and that in this country, the ... [read more]

Long live Archbishop Romero (1987)

The people of El Salvador continue to remember the murder of Archbishop Romero by the government’s 'death squads’. Romero has become a folk hero symbolising revolution. [read more]

‘Your troubles are my troubles’ (1937)

Dad (George Edwards) and Dave (John Saul) discuss Dave’s hope to marry Mabel, as Dad examines the farm’s finances. Money is too tight for Dad to offer his son a house, which would allow Dave to ask Mabel to marry ... [read more]

Mechanise and modernise (1957)

To compete with the cheap price of oil, the coal industry was forced to modernise and mechanise the coal pits with equipment that displaced workers. The narration by Leonard Teale describes the subsequent high unemployment and voices the frustrations of ... [read more]

Mbantua (2004)

A 60 Minutes crew film Warren H Williams and John Williamson around a campfire as they sing a song about 1,000 feet of people having walked through this land. Warren collaborates with Ted Egan. Warren talks about translating the song ... [read more]

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