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Meaningful dreams (1999)
Men are walking in line through the landscape carrying carved pieces of wood. Ru explains that the spirit goddess Amb Kor had appeared to him before but he and his supporters had done nothing and problems ensued. After he returns ... [read more]
‘A nut disguised as a screw’ (1974)
Bill (Robert McDarra) and inmate Richard (T. Richard Moir) plant a story with another prisoner that one of the patients has a knife and will attack Mr Cornish (Bill Hunter). Cornish searches the two Aboriginal inmates (Bob Maza and Zac ... [read more]
Making a canoe and hunting a turtle (1948)
Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory. On the beach it’s time to play out one of the dramas of daily life – the return of the hunters. [read more]
A sermon from the pulpit (1965)
The preacher offers an interpretation of one of the parables from the Bible. This clip is from a black-and-white live broadcast of a Catholic church service in the Mary Magdalene Roman Catholic Church in Rose Bay, Sydney. [read more]
A perfect holiday destination (1938)
Away from the bustle of the city and the strain of everyday life, the islands of the Great Barrier Reef offer a place for relaxation. In the bushland, birds fill the trees. Closer to shore, springtime has delivered an abundance ... [read more]
In the beginning (2002)
The main characters are introduced: Joyce Clague, Gary Foley, and Chicka Dixon – all were present and instrumental in the creation of The Foundation. [read more]
Awakening (1973)
A man and a woman in a car are having a conversation. Jeni (Jeni Thornley), the young office worker, is troubled by what one of her co-workers has discussed with her that day. In the conversation with her boyfriend (John ... [read more]
The Rocks after dark (1983)
A short sequence of contemporary nightlife in The Rocks, showing it active with live music, restaurants and tourist attractions. [read more]
Paul meets ‘the set’ (1969)
Influential socialite Marie Rosefield (Brenda Senders) introduces her young protégé, Paul Lawrence (Sean McEuan), to Sydney high society types. Artist Mark Bronoski (Denis Doonan), a key member of ‘the set’, offers Paul a job. [read more]
Shoved in front of a camera (1996)
When Judy Davis was chosen to play the lead in My Brilliant Career (1979), she was 23 and a recent graduate of NIDA. Under the gentle prompting of interviewer Andrea Stretton, Judy Davis recalls the ... [read more]
An outback emergency (1949)
In a dramatised scenario, an injured stockman is given urgent medical attention in remote Australia. It begins with ‘Skipper’ Partridge and a property owner who are notified of the situation. This then cuts to a woman on a pedal radio ... [read more]
‘Shells, shells, and more shells’ (c1918)
Australian troops and artillery have now moved up near Pozières, in the Battle of the Somme, which began three weeks earlier on 1 July 1916. The men occupy old German trenches, enjoying the sunshine and waving at the camera as ... [read more]
Rehearsing for war (c1918)
The Australian Prime Minister, Mr WM Hughes, poses for the camera with General Sir William Birdwood, commander of the Australian forces in France, in mid-1916. Mr Hughes is accompanied by the Australian High Commissioner to Great Britain, Andrew Fisher, a ... [read more]
Crossing the Roper River (1946)
McAlpine (Chips Rafferty) swims his cattle across the crocodile-infested Roper River, one of the largest rivers in the Northern Territory. Mary Parsons (Daphne Campbell) plunges in, leading her horse across, as her mother (Jean Blue) and sister (Helen Grieve) watch ... [read more]
‘We need lunch’ (1996)
Detectives Rachel 'Goldie’ Goldstein (Catherine McClements) and Frank Holloway (Colin Friels) take a break from interviewing their suspect. Over lunch, they rib each other about their various ex-spouses and Goldie suddenly remembers a school event for her son she was ... [read more]
‘A fellow human being’ (2007)
A map shows the Convincing Ground site, the traditional country of the Kilcarer clan of the Gundidj-Mara peoples. Dr Ian McNiven of Monash University presents the historic context surrounding the massacre. [read more]
The lady in question (1981)
At the dating agency, Peter (Norman Kaye) is 'introduced’ by proxy to a prospective partner, a young woman called Patricia. He fears he’s too old but the consultant says she needs a mature man. Peter has to pay an extra ... [read more]
The Oomtah Bird (1970)
Superintendent Tilley (Nigel Lovell) tells Inspector Fox (Alwyn Kurts) about his sightings of a drunken man he thinks was Senior Detective Patterson (Norman Yemm). Fox defends Patterson but is nonetheless disturbed and later asks Detective Sergeant Mackay (Leonard Teale) and ... [read more]
Two dopes and a dog (1939)
George (George Wallace), Henry (John Dobbie) and their dog Aloysius are trapped in the haunted house, the lair of master criminal Dr Sunderman. They encounter a variety of scary effects designed to frighten them away. [read more]
‘The Altyerra is their life and their law’ (2008)
Narrator Rachel Perkins tells the Dreamtime stories of the desert people in Central Australia. The importance of the belief system and sacred law of the Arrernte people, Altyerra, is explained by Herman Malbunka of the Western Arrernte Nation. Perkins then ... [read more]
