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1970s Singapore (1971)
This clip begins with a montage of street scenes in Singapore accompanied by an instrumental soundtrack. Filmmaker Alan Bresnahan narrates his experience of Singapore and observes the bamboo scaffolding that adorns construction sites in the city. This is followed by ... [read more]
Spirit work (1996)
Night-time. A man behind the wheel of a car. A desolate road. In voice-over, Shane Francis (David Ngoombujarra) talks about the spirits that are present in the work he does as a field officer for the Royal Commission into Aboriginal ... [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]
Soot-blackened arrows (1988)
At a village gathering, the father of a wounded Ganiga man, shot by a Gaimelka man, has a stand-off with a Lutheran pastor who had been trying to calm things down. Taking no notice of the pastor, the Ganiga men ... [read more]
This is our place (1992)
The skinheads rush to their local pub to confront some young Vietnamese men playing pool. Gabe (Jacqueline McKenzie), Jacqui (Janei Anderson) and Bubs (James McKenna) arrive late, having been left behind. Gabe tries to stop Hando from hurting the younger ... [read more]
Steel rails (c1920)
Lengths of molten steel pass through a large machine that rolls them into rails for use in the Trans-Continental Railway. The molten steel snakes its way down the track before withdrawing again. The camera shifts position to capture this process ... [read more]
Li meets Liz (2009)
In the US, Li (Chi Cao) spots a student ballerina (Amanda Schull) practising and goes to help her. They talk and laugh as he holds her in the air. [read more]
Pressure to perform (1998)
Primary school girls compete to be chosen for the Australian gymnastics team. Pressure is on the young gymnasts as they train at the Western Australian Institute of Sport. The girls and coaches are interviewed in 1994 and then in 1996. [read more]
Not so tall timbers (1937)
Darley (Frank Harvey) has just shot dead Charles Blake (Campbell Copelin), in Jim Thornton’s cabin. Blake had made Claire Darley pregnant, then refused to marry her. Thornton (Frank Leighton) and Joan Burbridge (Shirley Ann Richards) rush to the log cabin ... [read more]
Logan lets off steam (1983)
Lila (Robyn Nevin) and her husband George (Peter Whitford) rush to the train station. Logan (John Hargreaves) is leaving town, without signing the papers which would allow them to adopt his son, PS. Logan is drunk, along with Lila’s sister ... [read more]
Burgess Tannery (1906)
A fixed camera shows employees emerging from the entrance to the Burgess Tannery for their lunch break. Many of the employees smile, tip their hats, wave or mock fight for the camera. The men range in age from young boys ... [read more]
1930s China (c1932)
This clip shows the harbour and esplanade area of a 1930s Chinese city, including streets, rickshaw pullers and a Chinese junk on the harbour. [read more]
‘We’re happy little Vegemites’ (1959)
A children’s chorus promotes the health properties of Vegemite, a popular Australian yeast spread, in this radio jingle from the late 1950s. [read more]
Greek Orthodox wedding (c1954)
This clip shows a bridal party making its way on foot through a small town in Greece. The parade is headed by musicians, with the bride, dressed in white, following behind. At the end of the parade, family and friends ... [read more]
Billycart race (c1920)
This clip shows a group of boys riding on the back of goats and children riding in billycarts down a street in Rockhampton, Queensland. The camera films them moving down the street and gathered in a group posing for the ... [read more]
Mick and Phillip argue (1999)
Evelyn Spence (Maya Stange) asks the pearl trader Mick Carpenter (Rufus Sewell) what brings him to the Trobriand Islands. Carpenter then argues with Evelyn’s husband, Dr Phillip Spence (Martin Donovan), over whether Phillip’s research into the nature of human society ... [read more]
Activist group meeting (1972)
A meeting of the Black movement, with speaker Dennis Walker. [read more]
This pig ain’t no Babe (1985)
Bertie (Anthony Richards) enrages a boar, which then escapes and chases him up a tree. Cranky Frank Phillips (Martin Vaughan) unwittingly distracts the boar and becomes its next target. He and his wife Shalagh Phillips (Carole Skinner) flee to the ... [read more]
Building construction (1899)
This actuality footage from 1899 shows workers carrying away rubble in wheelbarrows from a demolition site. As a man on the site watches, the wall they’ve just been working in front of crashes down. [read more]
A people’s band (2004)
Sammy Butcher talks about his experience as a musician with the Warumpi Band, and how the Warumpi Band was a people’s band, their songs having meaning that would have a positive impact upon their audience. [read more]
