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Les Presages (c1936)
In the final scenes from Léonide Massine’s symphonic ballet Les Presages, dancers from the Ballets Russes du Monte Carlo move frenetically across the stage, performing a series of strange gestures and jutting arm movements as they go. The final curtain ... [read more]
Greg feels special (1998)
Vicki (Susie Porter) is happy, busy and preoccupied, which prompts her husband Greg (Tamblyn Lord) to think she is having an affair. She takes him to see what she has been painting: a room with proclamations of love for him ... [read more]
Forgetting about the past (1985)
Stuart Wilkins (David Kennedy) goes to a Sydney boarding school to find his son Tommy (Jamie Agius). The Catholic principal (Rhys McConnochie) tells him to come back when he has arranged it with the child’s mother. The boy’s grandfather (Ray ... [read more]
Australia’s first astronaut (c1960)
An animation shows Rocket’s journey from moon to earth and then, in studio, his arrival in a cloud of dust. Unfortunately Miss Pat (Patricia Lovell) opens Rocket, who is ‘not speaking’, to discover Mr Squiggle is not inside. Doormat arrives ... [read more]
Captains (1987)
An intoxicated man sways before the camera. Three Aboriginal women walk into a games parlour in seedy Kings Cross. They sit at a table and check out the other patrons. Subtitles tell us about 'Captains’ – men who can be ... [read more]
‘I don’t eat bacon’ (1997)
Detectives Hummer (Chris Haywood) and Crean (Andrew S Gilbert) are eating breakfast. Crean declines to eat his bacon, telling his partner he’s Jewish. Faced with his partner’s scepticism, Crean goes on to tell a series of outlandish stories about his ... [read more]
Taking on New York (2001)
When Rupert Murdoch took over The New York Post he was already an institution in the UK and Australia. The former Mayor of New York, Ed Koch, reminisces about those times and how Rupert Murdoch handed him the Mayor’s job. [read more]
Law stick (1997)
John Howard responds to the High Court’s decision on the native title of the Wik and Thayorre peoples in Wik Peoples v Queensland (1996) 141 ALR 129. News footage shows a summit held by Aboriginal Land Councils. ... [read more]
Radio astronomy (1950)
This clip introduces radio astronomy as a new branch of science that uses radio equipment rather than telescopes to study the stars and sun. A series of shots illustrate the design of the equipment. Receiving machines measure the intensity of ... [read more]
One wave, one surfer (1973)
After a great day surfing with his friend Richie West, George Greenough goes back to work on his boat, a 37-foot hull on which he is building his own cabin. He explains his philosophy of surfing, and his need for ... [read more]
An open letter (2005)
Monica tells us why she felt obliged to make public her letter to her cousin, Cardinal George Pell, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney. It’s a heart-rending appeal to a family member to treat her as a human being and ... [read more]
Wild Dog Dreaming (2004)
Aerial views show Mount Gillen. The voice-over narration tells us about the Wild Dog Dreaming, when a local dog ancestor battled an intruder dog and eventually transformed into a rock embedded into the ground. Shots show the sacred rock in ... [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]
Why do two-footers eat more? (1992)
Rocky the frill necked Lizard observes and records the activities of the humans, or ‘two footers’, commentating throughout each Lift off episode. Occasionally the viewer will glimpse him with his camera, and at the end he reports back on what ... [read more]
Stolen (2004)
A mailbox large in the foreground, a house small in the back. Rosalie in voice-over tells us about her experiences of being an Aboriginal child in white foster care. Rosalie begins to tell us of the abuse she has had ... [read more]
‘I want to be an actor’ (2008)
Frances explains that she would like to be an actor like her famous uncle, David Gulpilil, and how she secured a role in the Rolf de Heer film Ten Canoes (2006). [read more]
Willie’s song (c1939)
Willie lounges and plays while the other animals, showing foresight, collect and deposit food (or in the case of the dog, signposts) in the bank. [read more]
‘Where cat from?’ (1993)
Bubby (Nicholas Hope) dresses up like his mother and ‘plays’ with the cat, which he has tied to the chair. He calls the cat ‘Bubby’ and speaks to it with the same phrases his mother (Claire Benito) uses on him. ... [read more]
‘Housebreaking’ (1948)
With his sister Molly outside keeping watch, John breaks into a house through an unlocked window. The boy emerges and the pair walks briskly away, but they are seen by a boy watching from the apartment block above. Once safely ... [read more]
‘Could he take me back?’ (1985)
Lindy (Marillac Johnston) receives a second letter from the man who says he is her father, with more information about her family. Her real name is Mai and there is a photo of Lindy as a baby with her mother. ... [read more]
