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Post office services (1988)
This is an Australia Post television commercial (TVC) promoting the organisation’s new corporate image and the services offered at the new look post offices. [read more]
Jenny can you sing? (1989)
Pugwall (Jason Torrens) is desperate to find a girl singer for the Orange Organics, but the pool to choose from is pretty small. There’s Daniella (Marcela Toro) from the milk bar, an assertive, feisty character who thinks she’s Tina Turner ... [read more]
Heather Henderson (2006)
An excerpt from a 14 minute interview with Heather Henderson, the daughter of Australian Prime Minister RG Menzies, in which she talks about her father’s home movies. Mrs Henderson describes how the home movies of London during the Blitz capture ... [read more]
Patricia and Willow (1998)
Patricia is the student and Willow is her mentor. Together they are preparing a project about the history of the community in Patricia’s home suburb of Sydney. Through photos and documents they gradually build the story of inner-city Sydney as ... [read more]
Darwin streets and Chinatown (c1926)
In this short clip, the camera observes part of Darwin’s town centre, main street and shopfronts. People walking along the footpaths under shopfront verandahs look at the camera. A Chinese family walks into one of the shopfronts before the clip ... [read more]
In native Australia (1917)
This is the entire footage with French intertitles. Highlights include a sequence where young Aboriginal men throw their spears at a target, then form a line and begin moving forwards and backwards, and finally charge with spears raised at the ... [read more]
Unique to Australia (1962)
The male lyrebird is singer, choreographer and star performer as he turns on the charm to attract a rather plain female to be his mate. [read more]
Bank loan (2002)
Emerging film producers Jason Gooden and Julian Saggers have applied to a bank to borrow $240,000 to continue making their under-funded feature film. Jason explains that the bank thinks it is a housing loan. He ends by saying ‘we will ... [read more]
Mawson’s testimony (1998)
In 1998 a team of scientists and archaeologists sail to Antarctica. They restore huts built by explorer Douglas Mawson in 1911. It is a remarkable job done in the short summer in Antarctica. The team pack up and join the ... [read more]
A true story, a true family (1982)
This opening sequence outlines the family relationships of Tim Pye (Tim Pye), Katie Pye (Katie Pye) and Ben Martin (Ben Martin). As the trio head along a country road, Ben gets in trouble for throwing orange peel out the car ... [read more]
Bang, bang, bang! (1970)
In the outback, the father (John Meillon) reads his maps and geological tables as his daughter (Jenny Agutter) prepares a picnic. The small boy (Lucien John) plays with his toy soldiers and water pistol, shooting at a passing aeroplane. He ... [read more]
Family Law Act (1995)
Filmmaker Don Parham questions the effectiveness of the Family Law Act enacted in 1975. He compares the reality of divorce in society with his personal experience. [read more]
Farey family picnic (1932)
The Farey family enjoy a picnic on a river bank in the 1930s. They drink tea and throw stones into the river. Leslie Francis Farey captures this simple family picture on 16mm film, providing a social record for others to ... [read more]
In a bind (2007)
The clamp has come off the Shepherds’ family car and the electricity is back on for the Edwards family. Now for the hard part. The Edwards can’t seem to bring their energy consumption down because there are seven of them ... [read more]
‘It’s hard to say goodbye’ (1972)
It’s the final Thursday show and although the pantomime story will conclude on Friday, host Sue Donovan must say goodbye to Samson the Cat (operated and voice by Ernie Bourne), who sings a melancholy goodbye song. Sue and Samson then ... [read more]
Beekeeping and making honey (c1940)
We see thousands of bees swarming on frames. A beekeeper uses a ‘smoker’ to blow smoke onto the bees so he can remove one of the frames and brush them off calmly. He uses a honey knife to strip the ... [read more]
‘Optics is very difficult’ (1973)
Using a blackboard, Professor Sumner Miller finishes outlining the theory behind the optical experiment of the day which involves two pieces of cardboard and a luminous source. He then asks the silent Mr Anderson for assistance. As an introduction to ... [read more]
Startled away (1998)
Della (Ursula Yovich) sits on the floor next to a guitar. Alvin (Trevor Jamieson) comes home, and quietly attempts to get on the swag with his promise wife. He climbs onto the swag beside her ever so carefully. Della stirs, ... [read more]
‘A little sign of love’ (c1969)
A woman and a man walk separately through a park as a song about Milk Tray chocolates plays over the soundtrack. The lovers see each other, come together to kiss then the man hands the woman a box of Milk ... [read more]
Evelyn goes into mourning (1999)
Evelyn Spence (Maya Stange) gets her head shaved and moves into a cage. Her husband has just died from dysentery and this is part of the mourning ritual of the villagers. The pearl trader Mick Carpenter (Rufus Sewell) checks on ... [read more]
