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Biscuits and wafers (1932)
The distinctive shapes of Milk Arrowroot and Iva biscuits emerge from the rolling and cutting machines. Women deftly sort and pack the biscuits into their packaging once they have been baked and cooled. Lemon, raspberry and pineapple are just a ... [read more]
A unique audience (c1920)
This segment from an Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1920 shows injured soldiers from Caulfield Military Hospital attending a special matinee screening of a film, arranged by the management at Elsternwick Theatre. Injured soldiers travel in wheelchairs or are pushed ... [read more]
Stand up, be counted (2002)
The activists – now elders – tell us how The Foundation played a role in the push for the 1967 referendum. [read more]
Hoop dance (1988)
The students take centre stage in the vibrant Torres Strait Hoop Dance. [read more]
‘My name’s Tess’ (1996)
Tess Silverman (Kym Wilson) is looking for Drover’s Run when her car breaks down and is surrounded by a herd of cattle being mustered by none other than Jack McLeod (Jack Thompson), the father she hasn’t seen in 20 years. ... [read more]
Main street (1986)
The family’s truck, laden with their possessions, begins its crawl down main street. The white townsfolk watch the truck as it makes its way to the new family home. [read more]
Do you love me? (2004)
Joe (Sam Worthington) and Heidi (Abbie Cornish) order dinner at a Chinese restaurant, after Joe’s mates have humiliated Heidi in the street outside. Heidi asks him if he loves her. He evades the question and refuses to say if she ... [read more]
Natural disasters (1993)
Skipping class, Nick (Alex Dimitriades) flirts with Jodie (Abi Tucker) outside her science class window before teacher Bill Southgate (Tony Martin) sends Nick back to class. After school, Nick, whose line of credit is not good in Ruby’s (Jan Adele) ... [read more]
Laying sewer pipes (c1922)
The Board of Works digs up ground in Melbourne’s northern suburbs to lay sewerage pipes. A large section of pipe is lowered into a trench beside railway tracks. Men above ground watch the pipe lowered by crane as workers in ... [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]
‘It started 15 years ago…’ (2000)
This clip begins with a montage that fills in the backstory from episode one, showing Eugénie’s gumshoe dad Ray (Brett Climo) escaping through a Russian forest and discovering a baby girl in the back seat of his car. Eugénie (Xaris ... [read more]
Manmoyi (2001)
Kamarrang of the Bordoh clan introduces himself and the Narbalek band to us. They come from Manmoyi, 200 kms from Oenpelli in Arnhem Land. Kamarrang tells us how the band has been established to teach the children the traditional songs, ... [read more]
Henry ‘Breaker’ Morant (1973)
Using stock footage to accompany the voice-over, the narrator tells us, in detail, of the disputed circumstances of Morant’s birth in England, and of his arrival in Australia in 1884. We learn that as a young man in Western ... [read more]
For what purpose? (2005)
Frank Byrne, Stolen Generations senior case workers Heather Shearer and Justin Howard, director Mitch Torres and Julie Hayden from the Department of Indigenous Affairs sit around a table. They are looking at the yellow pages of an old file that ... [read more]
Chook thief? (1988)
Johnno (Damien Walters), is falsely accused of stealing Les’s (Henry Salter) chooks and for his anxious father (John Waters), this is the final straw. He decides it is time to teach Johnno a lesson. Tony (Joe Petruzzi) tries to stand ... [read more]
Baby oil (1994)
In flashback, little Harvey (Nicholas O’Brien) listens to his grandfather (Graham Dow) spin a tale about where babies come from. Back in the present day, Harvey’s grandfather has been incapacitated by a stroke. Harvey’s mother,Monica McHugh (Monica Maughan), chats to ... [read more]
Avon Dam (c1927)
This clip begins with members of the Archibald family and their friends walking towards the camera across a wooden bridge. Among the family members present are John Ernest Archibald, his wife Ellen Kay Archibald and children John Muir and Helen ... [read more]
Kathy meets Patrick (1978)
Kathy Jacquard (Susan Penhaligon) begins work at the private clinic of Dr Roget (Robert Helpmann). Matron Cassidy (Julia Blake) orders Sister Williams (Helen Hemingway) to take Kathy to room 15 to look after comatose patient Patrick (Robert Thompson). [read more]
Inappropriate calls (1998)
Ambulance officers talk about inappropriate use of emergency vehicles. Some patients call an ambulance when they could have travelled to hospital by taxi or private vehicle. While this is quite legal, it could take the ambulances out of operation when ... [read more]
