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Cotton harvesting and picking (c1940)
A bright red mechanical cotton harvester moves through a cotton field as a group of people walk beside it. This is followed by a group of people harvesting cotton by hand who fill hessian bags slung over their shoulders. [read more]
Matilda needs Mutt (2008)
Matilda is taken to hospital, and Mutt is the culprit. ‘In the doghouse’, Mutt is chained up, unable to touch his beloved ball. Matilda returns, all patched up, and Mac, alone, trudges up the hill to milk her. But Matilda ... [read more]
‘Foiled again’ (1983)
Detective Tom Shannon (John McTernan) finally brings in Faith Bloomfield (Elaine Lee) after she is located treating homeless friends to an extravagant party at an expensive hotel. Back at the station, Shannon and Detective ‘JJ’ Jeffrey Johnson (Peter Adams) inform ... [read more]
Frankie goes to Kapooka (1969)
Frankie McCoy (Ken Shorter) enters basic training at Kapooka camp, but neither the food nor the discipline agrees with him. Sergeant Quinn (Peter Aanensen) waits for him to slip up, during harsh training on the obstacle course. [read more]
‘I just want a room’ (1986)
Frank (John Hargreaves) comes to rent the spare room at Malcolm’s house. He has seen a notice in the milk bar up the street, but he’s surprised to hear that Mrs T (Beverley Phillips) and the neighbour Jenny (Judith Stratford) ... [read more]
Panning for gold (1971)
This clip from a home movie filmed by Alan Bresnahan in 1971 shows a group of people panning for gold in a creek bed to the song, Goldfever. [read more]
Suicide (1994)
A teenage girl talks about how her feelings of extreme depression led her to contemplate suicide, and her parents talk about their reactions to discovering this. [read more]
Cuc Lam’s suitcase (2004)
It may be just a small red vinyl suitcase but for Vietnamese refugee Cuc Lam it’s a symbol of a new beginning in a new country. [read more]
Forever is a long time (1990)
The languid faery King (Richard Moir) and Queen (Rowena Wallace) discover that today is the last day they have to grant seven wishes to humans or they will lose their magic power – forever! Their son, Prince Wilton (Justin Rosniak) ... [read more]
‘Manhattan skyline’ (1982)
The next contestant is Howard, a 22-year-old dancer from Victoria, performing his own choreography to a piece called ‘Manhattan Skyline’. [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]
City Traffic in Variable Moods (c1920)
This is a whimsical item from a newsreel segment that shows the road and pedestrian traffic around the Flinders and Swanston St intersection in Melbourne, as well as a ride on a South Melbourne tram. It ends with a comedic ... [read more]
APEC motorcade (2007)
Julian Morrow, playing a security guard, leads a fake Canadian motorcade into the APEC restricted area, carrying Chas Licciardello dressed as Osama Bin Laden. [read more]
Recordings (1999)
Tensions emerge between housemates Daisuke (Toshiyuki Chiba) and Hana (Mikiko Ooka) as he prepares to leave Australia. [read more]
‘I can still hear her screaming’ (2000)
The narrator (Clare Larman) remembers her father’s death and her mother’s resulting mental breakdown. [read more]
Unemployment queues (1984)
The hard times are biting and when workers are put off it’s always the migrants who go first. Then there’s a desperate wait for work in a long and humiliating queue. [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]
‘I can’t hear you’ (2007)
McGahan (Brendan Cowell) arrives home in the morning after a very stressful night at the caravan, during which he fired a shot at three men beating up Lucky Phil. The ringing in his ears gets worse. McGahan’s partner Caitlin (Katie ... [read more]
Abigail is transported back (1985)
When Abigail Kirk (Imogen Annesley) touches ‘the little fairy girl’, Beatie Bow (Mouche Phillips), it sets off a reaction that sends them both back in time 100 years. With Beatie the only link to her former life, Abigail chases after ... [read more]
Li’s first triumph (2009)
Li’s (Chi Cao) first public appearance in a leading role with the Houston Ballet is a triumph – one watched with pride by his US mentor Ben (Bruce Greenwood) from the audience, and his girlfriend Liz (Amanda Schull) at home ... [read more]
