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Her brilliant career (1996)
Judy Davis attended a convent school in Western Australia during the late 1960s when the Catholic Church was in turmoil. When she left school in the early 1970s, there were no Australian female actor role models for her to emulate. ... [read more]
‘You have killed me’ (1984)
John (John Hargreaves) remembers the birth of their child Lucy, in a series of happy flashbacks that turn bitter when he imagines his wife Helen (Wendy Hughes) and her lover Tom (David Cameron). John rushes to find her, at the ... [read more]
The English cricket team (1932)
The English captain, Douglas Jardine, practices his driving techniques at the Perth cricket ground. Maurice Leyland stands at the wicket and works on his batting form. Herbert Suttcliffe stands in front of the camera before walking across the ground. Other ... [read more]
‘Give her Roses’ (1959)
This advertisement for Cadbury’s Roses chocolates shows a man dressed in hat and gloves, carrying a cane and singing to three women as he offers them each a box of Roses chocolates. The set is in the style of a ... [read more]
‘She’s always out’ (1925)
This clip shows an entire Maxonol Gramophone cinema advertisement from 1925 in which a couple decide to buy a gramophone to keep their daughter at home. They visit the Maxonol demonstration room and buy a gramophone. Now their daughter stays ... [read more]
Speeding Matilda (1993)
Matilda (Amy Terelinck) rescues a lamb in distress beside an almost dry waterhole, then realises she’s late for the school bus. She drives at high speed to the bus stop, on a flat, dusty road. The driver, Mrs Palmer (Fiona ... [read more]
Tribute to a great Australian man of film (2004)
John Dingwall has just died and Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton speak warmly of his long career. [read more]
From joy to tantrum (1995)
The film opens with Jane (voiced by Rachel Griffiths) swimming in the sea she loves, walking by its shore and telling us of her joy at being pregnant. But when indoors, her mood flares into a tantrum. [read more]
Range of products (c1960)
In a suburban street, a woman driving a Holden pulls up to do her Saturday morning shopping. Other GMH cars, including a Vauxhall, Chevrolet and Pontiac, are shown. The woman enters a showroom to look at read more]
My brother’s keeper (2007)
Bra Boys members recall how their group started in the early 1990s. For Sunny and Koby Abberton and Jack Kingsley the Bra Boys were a means of survival. Aboriginal former pro-surfer Maurice Cole touches on the darker side of the ... [read more]
Crying wolf (1999)
The three – Melanie (Alyssa McClelland), Elvis (Luke Carroll) and Perry (Jie Pittman) – are holed up in an old house. Perry and Elvis are playing cards and banter between themselves. Melanie is bound and gagged. Unable to stand it ... [read more]
Whitlam backs Marcos’s Asian forum idea (1974)
Then prime minister, Gough Whitlam, addresses the State Dinner at Malacañang Palace, Manila, hosted by President Ferdinand and Mrs Imelda Marcos on 11 February 1974. The dinner is followed by a performance from the Bayanihan Dance Company. The next day ... [read more]
Flammable finale (1933)
As the rescue party escorts the 3,000 sheep to safety, Clive (John Warwick), Joan (Jocelyn Howarth) and Wayne (Grant Lyndsay) are still caught in the fire. They make for a waterhole, but the fugitive Fletcher (Les Warton) has got there ... [read more]
‘Does this country belong to him?’ (1976)
Mike (Greg Rowe) and his father (Peter Cummins) go to warn Fingerbone Bill (David Gulpilil) that trouble is brewing. Bill is not supposed to be living on a state reserve, and the ranger wants to talk to him. [read more]
Triumph (1992)
At the Pan Pacific championships, Doug Hastings (Barry Otto) starts a handclap in support of son Scott (Paul Mercurio) and his partner Fran (Tara Morice). Scott and Fran give a thrilling exhibition of their rule-breaking paso doble. The crowd goes ... [read more]
‘What’s going on?’ (1991)
Leonie (Linda Blair) tells Joe (Jerome Ehlers) she is leaving him. She believes he is responsible for a series of murders, one of which she has helped cover up for him. [read more]
Unmarried, pregnant and alone (2006)
After more than 30 years, a woman recalls the most terrifying moment of her life as if it were yesterday. It was the 1960s and she was pregnant in a country town. Too afraid to tell her family, she fled ... [read more]
Between worlds (2005)
Tommy tells us about the massacre on the plains, Aboriginal peoples executed by stockmen. This is woven into his recount off his experience as a young boy – being called 'white boy’ by the blackfellas, and 'black boy’ by the ... [read more]
Wheat harvesting (1899)
This silent actuality footage was taken by the official photographer of the Queensland Department of Agriculture, Frederick Charles Wills, and his assistant Henry William Mobsby in 1899. It shows a horse-drawn Buckeye brand reaper and binder harvesting a wheat crop ... [read more]
It’s not cricket (1984)
The English team is split over their Captain’s tactics. The gentlemen players are not happy and the team manager, Pelham Warner, is distressed and alarmed at the danger being done to Empire politics. Later, His Royal Highness, the Nawab of ... [read more]
