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Walking on water (1988)
There’s a brooding calm before the next storm breaks over the paperbark swamp. The jacana chicks are hatching, watched over by their concerned male parent, while the mother is protecting her patch from other predatory female jacanas. [read more]
Thursday Island cross-dressing (1937)
Soon after arriving on Thursday Island, Daubenny (Lloyd Hughes) pays Mendoza (Ronald Whelan) 1,000 pounds for his boat and his house on the island. While the crowd follows Mendoza to the nearest hotel to knock down his cheque, Daubenny meets ... [read more]
Sydney 1966 (1967)
Dominic McGooley (Gordon Chater) fishes from the old Balmain wharf as the opening titles are played out against a backdrop of Sydney Harbour, with a noticeably lower city skyline than the one we see today. Only the Harbour Bridge’s familiar ... [read more]
Grandma’s letter (1988)
This is an Australia Post television commercial (TVC) advertising the use of the correct postcode in addressing letters. [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]
Beach scenes (1932)
A beach scene from the 1930s is captured on this home movie clip taken by Leslie Francis Farey. People are shown lying on the beach and a group of people swim between the flags while surfers catch waves using longboards. [read more]
Charlie and Dolores get married (1950)
On a park bench, Charlie (Cynthia Bidencope) and Dolores (Lilian Fetherstonhaugh) bashfully sit beside each other. Charlie takes Dolores’ hand and kisses her before proposing to her. Dolores nods her head in agreement and Charlie’s heart races. They kiss once ... [read more]
We’re here to help (1998)
Tanya (Rachel Griffiths) chases the child welfare officers (Malcolm Kennard and Jan Friedl) away, after they have come to check up on Amy (Alana De Roma). Amy is being home-schooled, but the welfare officers say they have had reports of ... [read more]
My place (1988)
Sally Morgan talks about writing the book My Place. Lois Olney talks about being adopted and raised as a middle class person. Helen Corbett, the Executive Officer for the Aboriginal Legal Service in Perth talks about Indigenous women dying in ... [read more]
‘Little baby one’ (1993)
A family are looking for bush potato, a much-loved favourite. Women using tools to dig up the potato show us that it takes great effort to gather it – but, we are told, the expenditure of energy is worth it. [read more]
Tobacco (2001)
A young woman and two older women tell us the stories passed on from their old people about the massacre of Aboriginal people by white men in 1928. Painted depictions of the story run beneath the voice-over, giving it a ... [read more]
Caterpillar (2004)
Thomas Stevens, Max Stuart and Peter Renehan all speak about the importance of the custodianship of the land, and explain that when the land is not cared for, the people get sick. [read more]
Not so Fairweather (1990)
The quiet rural farmhouse, where the pregnant Clare Fairweather (Noni Hazlehurst) has been enjoying a nap, is instantly transformed into bedlam as the first visitors arrive amid a rainstorm. Clare’s female friends Sandy (Helen Jones) and Therese (Fiona Press) quickly ... [read more]
Street procession, Townsville (c1934)
A procession of 500 participants (both men and women) ride the streets of Townsville to start the rodeo to be held at nearby Mt St John. A brass band marches and crowds gather to watch the parade. Men standing on ... [read more]
Survival of the fittest (1991)
A father who owns a luxury car explains that his seven-year-old son has already acquired his own toy luxury car and is working to imitate his dad’s material ambitions. [read more]
‘Happier family motoring’ (c1956)
A family of six walk out of their house to the car. One of the sons helps his father pack the luggage into the boot as a voice-over narrator describes the spacious interior of the car, which can seat six ... [read more]
Neurosurgery and the soul (1996)
Two neurosurgeons discuss the scientific and mechanical nature of their work and one lightheartedly wonders: if a soul exists, where it would show up on a scan? [read more]
Aftermath (1986)
The storm has subsided and Connie Hampton (Tracy Mann), Steve Parry (Chris Haywood) and Connie’s father Mick Brennan (Tony Barry) emerge from their hiding places to the sight of a city in ruins. [read more]
Aboriginal people and the dingo (1997)
A scientist takes Rob Bredl to remote Aboriginal cave paintings that depict the closeness of the dingo to humans. [read more]
‘I don’t mean you’ (2001)
In 1984 the Uberoi family has to leave India to escape the anti-Sikh riots. The filmmaker’s sister Zoe describes her distress when a school friend criticises the Sikhs but says she means nothing against Zoe personally. [read more]
