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Deaf, blind, drunk and sick (2002)
The three brothers have escaped the bookie robbery with the bags of loot, only to wind up back at Flemington Racecourse. Dale (Guy Pearce) asks a tipsy racegoer on her way home if he can buy her car. Pamela (Kate ... [read more]
Play, health and education (1962)
At Halls Creek, the Australian Inland Mission (AIM) conducts a hostel for schoolchildren from the surrounding areas, where they play and learn. AIM staff look on as the children play an educational game on the hostel ... [read more]
Whoa – just relax, man! (2010)
J (James Frecheville) is travelling as a passenger in Craig’s car in the Melbourne beachside suburb of St Kilda when a couple of youths pull up beside them at traffic lights and insult them. Craig (Sullivan Stapleton) hands J a ... [read more]
‘You reckon we’re doing any good by being here?’ (1979)
Harry (Graham Kennedy) sets Bung (John Hargreaves) straight about the War: the 'commos’ will win and no-one at home in Australia will thank them for going. He tells Dawson (Graeme Blundell) that the rich don’t fight wars, but that poor ... [read more]
‘A new nation flexing its muscles’ (1954)
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, arrive in Sydney aboard the Royal ship SS Gothic, to be greeted at Farm Cove by Prime Minister Robert Menzies, and the Governor-General, Sir William Slim. The ... [read more]
‘A kind of tribe’ (1969)
Rex Stapleton (Bruce Anderson) explains his idea of a new tribe of young urban intellectuals to Sarah Gardiner (Eileen Chapman), at a party. Noel Oakshot (David Turnbull) declares he’s no longer a part of that tribe, especially if it pretends ... [read more]
Shickered (1935)
Grandad Rudd (Bert Bailey) and Mr Banks (Bill Stewart) leave the pub in a state of complete inebriation. Mr Banks offers Mr Rudd a lift on his horse. Back at the Rudd household, Mrs Banks (Marie D’Alton) and her daughter ... [read more]
A baptism of fire (2006)
Marg’s first placement with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) was in South Sudan where a terrible civil war had been raging for over 20 years. She was thrown into the work from the very first moment she arrived at ... [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]
Red Cross charity bazaar (c1915)
Filmed in Sydney during the First World War, this clip shows a Red Cross bazaar held in Martin Place to raise money for the troops at Gallipoli. The camera holds still on a sign which says ‘Red Cross Produce workers ... [read more]
‘They’ve sacked the boss’ (1993)
Wife of former Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, Margaret Whitlam, recalls the day that the Governor-General John Kerr sacked her husband on 11 November 1975. At the end of this clip Gough Whitlam is seen on the steps of Parliament House ... [read more]
‘A stripling, on a small and weedy beast’ (1982)
Jim Craig (Tom Burlinson) has joined the crack horsemen in pursuit of the wild brumbies, but the men baulk at following the mob down a precipitous decline. As Harrison (Kirk Douglas) declares the mob has beaten them, Craig shows his ... [read more]
Bernard Holtermann (1983)
Bernard Holtermann was a German migrant who arrived in Australia in 1858. In 1882 Holtermann found the largest gold nugget unearthed in the world at the time. He used his newly found riches to set up as a photographer. His ... [read more]
The Henderson kids (1985)
The title sequence is followed by a recap of the first episode, The Crash, in which Alice Henderson (Diane Craig) holds firm against an approach by Mr Wheeler (Peter Whitford) to buy the family property at Haven Bay. The fact ... [read more]
Melbourne Chinese Orchestra (1931)
This clip shows eight members of the Melbourne Chinese Orchestra performing at Efftee Film Studios in 1931. A stage curtain parts to reveal the orchestra on stage together with some Chinese props. After a wide shot of the whole ensemble, ... [read more]
Reception and photographs (c1914)
The camera films the wedding party compose themselves for still photographs at the reception. Some of the guests are also shown. The clip ends with the bride and groom standing in front of a staircase smiling for the camera. [read more]
‘A warning to the world’ (1981)
Wilfred Burchett was the first journalist to report from the site of atomic devastation at Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. He labelled the effect on human beings as 'atomic plague’. Archival footage shows victims being treated in hospital and flattened landscape. [read more]
Dave in love (1920)
Dave (Tal Ordell) dances with glee after he receives a letter from his new sweetheart Lily White (Carmen Coleman). Joe, the youngest Rudd (Arthur Wilson) thinks he’s gone mad. The Rudd women crowd around to look at Dave’s photo of ... [read more]
What was this pain about? (1986)
Liz affirms her commitment to love, but vows never to repeat (or at least try never to repeat) the experience of loss she has felt after the end of the relationship with Steve. She quotes Neil Finn, Bob Dylan and ... [read more]
‘Try the lot, no matter what the risk’ (1981)
Alan (Adam Garnett) and his father (Tony Barry) discuss the problem Alan is having with the bully Macintyre, contemplating ways Alan can beat him. His mother (Julie Hamilton) is distressed at what is happening as Mr Marshall tries to explain ... [read more]
