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Snake for Christmas (1947)
After two days trying to find the thieves, the children have no food, so they must eat snake. Neza (Neza Saunders) is pleased with Helen’s cooking of the snake but Michael (Michael Yardley) can’t face it. Neza offers some live ... [read more]
An amazing rescue (2006)
Captain Larsen’s rescue boat, The Antarctic, sank in the ice off Antarctica in 1902. His crew of 21 built a hut to live in until they were themselves rescued a year later. They were forced to eat penguins to stay ... [read more]
Christmas barbarians (1995)
Mrs Hoggett (Magda Szubanski) has just measured Babe, because she’s planning on roast pork for Christmas lunch. The old ewe Maa (Miriam Flynn) is disgusted at the thought of someone eating a pig, but Babe is none the wiser. He ... [read more]
Modern alchemy (2004)
Inventor John Walker has found a way of turning landfill into compost, a form of contemporary alchemy. It’s a system capable of functioning on a huge scale, very economically. [read more]
Ambo stress (1998)
While waiting for a call, paramedic Paul McMurtrie talks about the stress ambulance officers experience in the course of their work. He says that while officers can separate their emotions while at the scene, they can feel the effects later. [read more]
Shopping week, Bondi Junction (c1926)
An intertitle introduces the ‘monster parade’ as floats and exhibits parade down the street. People in costumes include a child dressed as a wedding cake, Boy Scouts on billycarts, a ghost, Felix the Cat, what looks like two Chinese mythological ... [read more]
Children’s games (c1909)
Adults and children hold hands and form a large circle in the back garden to play the children’s games 'ring-a-ring-a-rosie’ and ‘oranges and lemons’ as children pass underneath the arms of the two adults. [read more]
Monkey up and monkey down (2006)
The fourth and current version of the opening Play School titles run and then presenter Justine Clarke uses a monkey in the cardboard jungle ‘Opposites Calendar’, and a song ('Monkey up a tree’) to introduce the concept of up and ... [read more]
Hyde Park and Lloyd George (1941)
This home movie filmed by the Australian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, in 1941 shows Hyde Park, filled with rubble from the Blitz, then cuts to some close-ups of British Home Secretary, Lloyd George. [read more]
‘You’re all mad’ (1979)
During her indoctrination at the Hyma Brotherhood’s compound, Kate Davis (Chantal Contouri) is told by Mrs Barker (Shirley Cameron) and Hodge (Max Phipps) that drinking human blood is the ultimate aristocratic act. [read more]
‘I can’t help what I feel’ (1978)
Beth (Margaret Cameron) has left her husband and wants to live with her lover, Terry (George Shevtsov). Terry rejects the proposal, saying he does not feel the same way about Beth. [read more]
I’m looking for someone like you (1998)
The five kids – Mike (Nikolai Nikolaeff), Pi (Cassandra Magrath), Bec (Frances Wang), Marcello (Paul Pantano) and Ram (Damien Bodie) independently discover the encrypted message in the web and intrigued, they each try to break it. One by one they ... [read more]
Can’t feed ‘em, can’t give ‘em away (1993)
The bank is about to foreclose on the Bell family property, although Matilda (Amy Terelinck) doesn’t yet know. The rural councillor Clive (John Hargreaves) visits Ben and Ellen Bell, as they prepare to call it quits. Ben and his co-workers ... [read more]
Taj Mahal and snake charmers, India (1958)
This clip begins with shots of the Taj Mahal and the extensive surrounding gardens in Agra, India. This is followed by two snake charmers, one of whom plays music to a cobra while the other holds a python in his ... [read more]
Shanty houses and mine shafts (c1925)
A man stands outside the entrance to his small shanty home and smokes a pipe. A woman cooks in an outdoor cooking area. A man chops wood outside his home. Another man feeds his chickens. These scenes illustrate the shanty ... [read more]
National Network Nightly News (1995)
Narelle Parkinson (Kitty Flanagan) and Ian Gooding (John Walker) present the National Network Nightly News, with a live cross to reporter David McGann (Shaun Micallef). Phil Toynby (Francis Greenslade) presents the weather. [read more]
She, from Epsilon (1995)
An old lady (Alethea McGrath) tells her two granddaughters (Chloe and Phoebe Ferguson) a story that a man once told her. It is about a woman from the star Epsilon, in the Southern Cross, who arrives unexpectedly on earth. She ... [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]
