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Our Don Bradman (1982)
In an excerpt from the 1931 Australasian Films featurette That’s Cricket, Don Bradman, regarded as the greatest cricketer of all time, addresses the camera. We hear the popular song Our Don Bradman written by Jack O’Hagan and performed by Art ... [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]
The Hajj: pilgrimage to Mecca (1945)
Every year, hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims make the journey to Mecca in Saudi Arabia for the Hajj. They come by boat, on foot and on camel. On reaching Mecca, they gather at the holy Kaaba and begin their ... [read more]
‘S(tore) H(igh) I(n) T(ransit)’ (2006)
Kenny (Shane Jacobson) drives a tanker full of sewage to the Melbourne sewerage farm at Werribee, as he explains the origins of the word 'shit’. Back at the depot, he demonstrates some of the damage sustained by his company’s portaloos. [read more]
Taree High School (1998)
Poet Les Murray recalls his experience of being bullied at high school to friend, writer Bob Ellis. Murray was psychologically damaged and recovered by writing a poem. [read more]
‘The public humiliation of Taylor Fry’ (2006)
Taylor’s (Marny Kennedy) parents are planning their act for the school talent contest and she is desperate to stop them. Seeing a story about adoption on television, Taylor decides that this is what has happened to her, and if she ... [read more]
Residents’ demonstration (1974)
On 12 December, at the beginning of school holidays, Balmain families assemble down at Mort Street for a demonstration to stop the containers being trucked through their streets. Children hold up signs, a representative from the transport committee speaks to ... [read more]
‘Dirty little bugger’ (2007)
Charlie (Luke Ford) draws rude self-portraits as he and his brother Thomas (Rhys Wakefield) sit at home. Their parents return from a sex and pregnancy class, where Maggie (Toni Collette) has had one of her ‘attacks’, due to high blood ... [read more]
Tamara Toumanova (c1939)
Filmed in slow motion, Tamara Toumanova, wearing a green and black swimsuit, performs a series of leaps and poses on the sand at Bungan Beach. [read more]
‘How many razorbacks would you kill in a season?’ (1984)
Beth Winters (Judy Morris) and cameraman Danny (John Howard) arrive in Gamulla. After booking rooms at the pub run by Turner (John Ewart), Beth interviews shooter Jake Cullen (Bill Kerr). Jake says he enjoys killing razorbacks. [read more]
No work (1982)
We see all the characters in a typical day – babysitting, doing house work, going to the dole office, eating fish and chips at the beach and shopping for hair dye. [read more]
Father and son visit the reserve (2009)
The father (Andrew McFarlane) drives the son (Clarence John Ryan) down to the reserve in Bourke. They stay in the car and look out the window at the people and place. [read more]
‘What does that make me?’ (2001)
Neighbouring farmer Alex (Aaron Jeffery) arrives at Drover’s Run by helicopter. Claire (Lisa Chappell) is happy to see her friend – but not so amused when Alex catches sight of Tess (Bridie Carter) for the first time. [read more]
Randwick Racecourse crowds (c1928)
At the conclusion of the final race in the Sydney Cup at Randwick Racecourse, a large crowd is marshalled out to waiting trams. Thousands of people stream onto the platform and pile in before they travel out of shot and ... [read more]
Henry Warburton arrives (1994)
Tegwyn (Amanda Douge) asks her mother, Alice (Lisa Harrow), why her paralysed father, Sam (Mark Fairall), has been brought home. Ort (Jamie Croft) answers a knock at the door. It is Henry Warburton (Peter Coyote), who says he has come ... [read more]
Anzac Cove to Quinn’s Post (c1915)
Filming from Watson’s Pier at Anzac Cove, the camera pans along the steep hillside at the beach, across the area the Australian and New Zealand troops had to assault on 25 April 1915. This shot is from three months later ... [read more]
The elephant (1997)
The Footscray Football Club has a fundraiser. The team parade naked in front of fans to raise money for the club. We see them performing 'The elephant’, a routine where the line of naked dancing men join hands at the ... [read more]
Old Jindabyne (c1965)
As the waters of Lake Jindabyne, part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme, begin to rise, we take a last look at old Jindabyne. [read more]
Conversion (c1920)
This Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1920 shows the commencement of work at Victoria Parade for the electrification of the cable tram system of Collins Street, Melbourne. [read more]
Iron battleships (2000)
HMS Warrior was built by the British in 1860 to be the most advanced and deadly warship of its time. She carried 26 guns, was fuelled by coal and could sail at 14 knots. The Warrior heralded a new ... [read more]
