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Tarn Shan Tin Mine (c1928)
This clip begins with a sign which says 'Tarn Shan Tin Mine’. The camera pans across the mountainside, showing a man pulling a bucket from a well, local workers standing on large wooden barrels and the expatriate men who run ... [read more]
Tram chaos (c1926)
A Glen Iris tram causes chaos when electric tram wires fuse, with the wire cutting into the road and tramlines. Passers-by stop to look. [read more]
This blessed spot, this Gold Coast, this paradise (1981)
Stacey (Ray Barrett) goes to a separatist political rally, looking for the missing girl, Cathy McCredie (Janet Scrivener). He listens to Sir Ted Godfrey (Robert 'Tex’ Morton), the state MP, make a rousing speech about why the Gold Coast should ... [read more]
Today’s nuns (1992)
By the early 1990s it was likely that the Roman Catholic order of nuns, the Sisters of Mercy, was going to die out. Women who have chosen to stay in the order explain their reasons for staying, and talk about ... [read more]
Birth (1988)
This is an Australia Post television commercial (TVC) promoting the Lettergram service as a replacement for the congratulatory telegram, traditionally sent on the birth of a child. [read more]
Strong spirit (1999)
Over shots of landscape, an elder named Napanangka tells us about Moonga Moonga, a strong spirit who makes children from other cultures sick, and that 'he is bad and cheeky to people from other countries’. In order to sing these ... [read more]
The rice farm (1991)
Filmmaker Dennis O’Rourke offers to buy Thai prostitute Aoi a rice farm if she will stop practising prostitution. Aoi gives her response. [read more]
Modern Aboriginal people (1984)
This clip explores Dr Alan Thorne’s controversial viewpoint that modern Aboriginal peoples are the descendents of two groups of peoples from Indonesia and eastern Asia, principally China. [read more]
‘What did I do to his father?’ (1971)
Banner (Gerard Kennedy), Vickers (Chuck Faulkner) and Peters (Terence Donovan) question George Flack (Gerard Maguire) over the assault of John Kelso (John Fegan). Kelso won’t talk about the incident to the police but is a little more forthcoming when he ... [read more]
‘Go you Yagoona no-names’ (2006)
In the dressing rooms, the Yagoona Schooners are paralysed with fear because they have to play a team stacked with rugby league legends. Luc’s grandfather (Dao Minh Sinh) and his room-mate Bob (Leslie Dayman) leave the nursing home to join ... [read more]
Guess what I found! (2005)
B Max arrives home with a surprise. It’s a rabbit, but the friends soon realise that they don’t know how to look after it. They go to a song while they think about it. [read more]
Looking for Mr Holt (1967)
This is mute unedited black-and-white footage showing members of the beach party retracing their steps soon after losing sight of Mr Holt. [read more]
Desert Rats (2006)
Aaron reads the paper while Vinnie mows the lawn. Over family stills and clips showing Aaron performing in Dead Heart and Water Rats, Aaron describes how Vinnie always turned to him to be looked after, and how, with a lack ... [read more]
I love you Betty (1998)
Ari (Alex Dimitriades), Joe (Damien Fotiou) and Joe’s fiancé Dina (Dona Kaskanis) are at the ‘Steki’, a Greek nightclub, when Betty (Elena Mandalis) arrives, looking distraught. Dina has been flirting with Ari all night, but she recoils when he kisses ... [read more]
Sugar cane (1998)
Grace is walking through the sugar cane fields. In flashback the two sisters, playing in the cane fields, place necklaces around each other’s necks, laughing with glee. Grace walks back through the sugar cane. Thunder clouds roll overhead. Loretta strokes ... [read more]
Boer War Transvaal contingent (1899)
This 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. Crowds line the streets to watch the First Queensland Cavalry Contingent parade just before ... [read more]
Surf club parade (c1929)
This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1929 shows a Scottish pipe band leading the opening parade of a surf carnival at Bondi Beach, Sydney. Surf clubs including North Bondi, Maroubra, Curl Curl, Clovelly, Collaroy and Manly participate. ... [read more]
Raising awareness through music (1991)
Musician and playwright Jimmy Chi talks about the importance of raising awareness about sexual health. The cast from the musical play Bran Nue Dae perform a light-hearted song about safe sex to get the message across. [read more]
‘Good evening’ (1978)
In the opening segment of The Naked Vicar Show, stars Ross Higgins, Kevin Golsby and Noeline Brown talk about political figures of the day. [read more]
‘We’re no-one, we’re nobody’ (2005)
Tracy (Cate Blanchett), her brother Ray (Martin Henderson) and her boyfriend Jonny (Dustin Nguyen) have driven from Sydney to an isolated farm, to buy a large amount of amphetamines. At the farm, they find Lionel Dawson (Hugo Weaving), dying of ... [read more]