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‘Just to prove that I met him’ (1941)
This clip from a home movie filmed by Australia’s Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, begins with Mrs Clementine Churchill in curlers waving out a window to the camera. It then shows Sarah Churchill in the garden, Mrs Randolph Churchill getting ... [read more]
‘You hold your nose and you jump in’ (1997)
Robert Hughes describes the long hard slog of writing. He says that all his books, except for The Culture of Complaint (1993), would never have been written if he’d known what was ahead of him when he first sat down ... [read more]
Marbuck’s madness (1955)
Marbuck (Robert Tudawali) and Jedda (Ngarla Kunoth) are in a cave. Marbuck, gradually losing his mind, begins to hallucinate. After being sung by the older men for breaking tribal laws, Marbuck believes he is dying. Jedda is panicked. How will ... [read more]
A slice of sabotage (1937)
Darley (Frank Harvey) and Charles Blake (Campbell Copelin) plot the sabotage of Stephen Burbridge’s timber-cutting operations. Blake denies he’s engaged to Burbridge’s daughter Joan (Shirley Ann Richards); he’s already involved with Darley’s own sister Claire (Aileen Britton). When Jim Thornton ... [read more]
‘Dad is going to kill you’ (1990)
Gordon Farkas (Steve Bisley) has been pulled over after a big night out at a girlie bar. While he was there, Danny (Ben Mendelsohn) and his mates Vangeli (Angelo D’Angelo) and Mark (Damon Herriman) have switched engines on Farkas’ car, ... [read more]
‘Life’s a bugger’ (1976)
Caddie (Helen Morse) calls off her relationship with bookmaker Ted (Jack Thompson), after she is warned off by Ted’s steady girlfriend. At the boarding house where she lives, the landlord and his wife (Pat Evison) tell her she’ll have to ... [read more]
Children at play (1964)
Annemaria plays with her dolls. Her two brothers, Andrew and the younger Harold entertain themselves with model boats and cars. The boys unwrap and then play a game of Monopoly while Annemaria eagerly watches on. [read more]
Random APEC security checks (2007)
In this stunt from The Chaser’s War on Everything, Chas Licciardello poses as a security officer working for APEC and asks members of the public to undergo random checks. [read more]
Sonnets (2001)
This clip introduces Dolly Walker Wraight, one of the Marlovians who believe that Christopher Marlowe wrote the works commonly attributed to William Shakespeare. There is a group singing about Marlowe at a Marlowe Society meeting. Walker Wraight has written a ... [read more]
Roma Street Station (1899)
This actuality footage shows a train pulling up to Roma Street Station, Brisbane in 1899. Commuters disembark and exit the platform via a side gate or walk up the stairs towards the camera. [read more]
Graeme Murphy (1988)
Choreographer Graeme Murphy directs dancers in rehearsal for a cricket ballet. We then see the Sydney Dance Company performing the ballet, and end with Murphy talking about what he looks for in Australian dancers as we see a rehearsal of ... [read more]
Getting a job (1969)
Molony is driving through the suburbs of Canberra talking to interviewer Robin Hughes about how he went about finding a job after so many years in the church. Without a reference from his former colleagues, and too proud to ask ... [read more]
‘We need you’ (1996)
Stockman Patrick (Robert Mammone) has broken the news to his girlfriend Becky (Maya Stange) that he is leaving town after a falling out with the McLeod sisters. He and the other staff are unwilling to take orders from a woman ... [read more]
Nobody is listening (2007)
Newspaper editor Rami Khouri argues that modern political history has generated terrorism and that the situation will worsen if this is not recognised. Journalist Robert Fisk notes that when new footage of Osama Bin Laden surfaces the focus is always ... [read more]
‘Not my type’ (1998)
Working undercover, agent Peter Church (Peter Phelps) steals a truckload of tyres from the railway yards with brothers Ronnie Gallagher (John Brumpton) and Garry Gallagher (Garry Waddell). Church’s colleagues Oscar Stone (Ian Stenlake), Kaye Kelso (Jessica Napier), Bernie Rocca (Joe ... [read more]
‘Welcome to Manila’ (2002)
Linda Phillips, a volunteer law student from Australia, is met by Hoi Trinh, an Australian-Vietnamese lawyer at Manila Airport. Hoi has volunteered to help the Vietnamese boat people who are living in the Philippines as stateless persons. Linda has joined ... [read more]
Tin mining (c1930)
This clip shows work inside a tin mining plant, including dredging buckets lifting ore from the bed of the river and local workers operating machinery to separate ore from water. [read more]
Growing up in foster care (2005)
Jabe talks about her troubled early life over images of a model streetscape. She looms like a giant over the houses and walks through the streets, ankle deep in houses. [read more]
Mementos (2000)
The narrator (Clare Larman) recalls the time her father befriended a dog that was blind in one eye. She also talks about mementos of her father that she has retained. [read more]
‘No pecking order in poo’ (2006)
In the midst of a large outdoor festival, Kenny (Shane Jacobson) has to deal with a casual employee – a university student – who thinks the work is beneath him. When the uni student (Ant Keogh) tells him that a ... [read more]
