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Bougainville healing (2000)
When the people of Bougainville Island were blockaded for forcibly closing the copper mine they had to relearn their traditional ways of medicine. We see them gathering, preparing and applying traditional medicine as they talk in voice-over. [read more]
Two roots (2004)
During a palaeontological excavation volunteer Nicola Barton found a remarkable fossil. The tooth contained two roots indicating a mammal. Dr Thomas Rich from Museum Victoria and the School of Geosciences, Monash University declared that it belonged to a mammal, not ... [read more]
Nature in miniature (1980)
A poetic sequence of water and rocks along the middle Franklin River, with Bob Brown in voice-over philosophising about nature and life. [read more]
Physique, aptitude and technique (1959)
Body size and shape will often indicate the sport most suitable for any particular athlete. Athletes illustrating the differing body types are shown including: Olympic champion Charles Morris, Olympic weightlifter Manny Santos, Captain of Australia’s athletic team Kevin Gosper and ... [read more]
‘Murder suicide’ (2002)
At the club, Barry (Bryan Brown) and Darcy (Sam Worthington) shift the bodies of two men that Barry has just shot. Detective Sergeant Ray (Sam Neill) arrives. The policeman is Barry’s main paid fixer of problems. Back in the outback ... [read more]
Auteur (1999)
Footage of a group of bikers riding and interviews with Sandy Harbutt in 1998 and 1973 are intercut with black-and-white and colour footage. Harbutt explains how he was able to get the numbers of bikies for the funeral scene in ... [read more]
‘You ever shot a horse?’ (1971)
At the Matlock police station, Sergeant Bert Kennedy (Vic Gordon) gets a call from Mrs Templar about an injured horse. Detective Curtis (Grigor Taylor) and Constable Hogan (Paul Cronin) set out to investigate. Meanwhile, Les Baker (Danny Adcock), currently a ... [read more]
‘Rally for justice’ (1995)
In a publicity stunt engineered by the radio station, a Perth 'shock jock’ radio announcer, Howard Sattler, invited his audience to a rally outside Parliament in 1991 to protest against juvenile crime. When Sattler is confronted with the reality that ... [read more]
‘A chance to be a mother’ (2001)
Vanessa and Michael and their family and friends grieve over the death of their newborn baby Layla. [read more]
Rabbit census (c1955)
CSIRO officers from the Wildlife Survey Section conduct a census on rabbit numbers in their field experiment enclosure c1955. [read more]
Romeo and Juliet (1928)
Romeo slays Tybalt in a street fight, but then is banished. Juliet (George Browne) laments at the news and seeks the Friar Lawrence’s help. The final tragedy unfolds as Juliet lies ‘dead’ only to be discovered by a distraught Romeo ... [read more]
Childhood influences (2003)
John Macumba talks about his childhood experiences and his burgeoning interest in media that came from listening to the radio. [read more]
Three dancers (1898)
This clip features a lead dancer in mask and two Dari headdress dancers in the Malu-Bomai Ceremony. [read more]
Ininti seed (2006)
Young women speak about how the old people used to show them bush tucker, dances, and how to make necklaces with ininti seeds. The young women talk about how the children now do not know about bush tucker, and they ... [read more]
Science for bureaucrats (1961)
At Mawson base on the Antarctic coast, the new men settle into their tasks, gathering vital weather information to send back to Australia. The radio room operates 16 hours per day, communicating with home base via Perth, Western Australia. A ... [read more]
‘A kingdom of night-time pleasures’ (2001)
English writer Christian (Ewan McGregor) recalls his great love for Satine (Nicole Kidman), a courtesan at the Moulin Rouge nightclub in bohemian Montmartre. [read more]
You can be anything (1987)
Lilli (Judy Davis) takes Ally (Claudia Karvan) out for lunch. Overwhelmed when Ally talks about her father, Lilli cries in the toilet. [read more]
Indefinable moods (2001)
A series of abstract symbols and recognisable images – such as sky, grass and a house – metamorphose against the backdrop of a colourful Australian landscape. [read more]
‘I interfaced with your primitive circuitry’ (2000)
Cybergirl (Ania Stepien) and Jackson (Craig Horner) get to know each other as Cybergirl demonstrates her superpowers by influencing the electrical equipment in the bus. [read more]
Chooks and hypnosis (1992)
Dad (Richard Moir) tries to impress Miss James (Robyn Gibbes) with his pet chook Russell. Linda (Joelene Crnogorac) hypnotises the chook and then she hypnotises Pete (Ben Thomas) to act like a chook every time he hears the word ‘now’. ... [read more]
