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The library (2004)
As Frankie (Claudia Karvan) shares a smoke with housemate Tom (Brendan Cowell), there is a knock on the door. Frankie remembers that she has arranged to go out for a drink with workmate George (Damon Herriman). Deciding that she is ... [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]
The promised land? (1954)
As the Queen prepares to speak at a state banquet in Canberra, the nation gathers to listen. People dancing aboard ship, a stockman in the outback, Australian soldiers on exercise, a young family in their lounge room, businessmen in a ... [read more]
Operating theatre, laboratory and x-ray (1928)
A fixed camera films the inside of an operating theatre in the Henry Meeks Pavilion of the hospital; a slow pan shows medical staff at work in the laboratory; another pan reveals a 'Violet Ray Atelier’ set up in a ... [read more]
Placid works in insurance (2003)
Placid (Ben Lee) thinks it would do him good to work in a structured environment with a lot of normal people, he tells insurance executive Joel (Christopher Stollery). Joel shows him around the office and tells him that the insurance ... [read more]
‘A spanner in the works’ (2005)
Medical researchers Dr Julia Delvecchio (Anita Hegh) and Luke Rodman (Aaron Blabey) have bad news for their boss, Professor Robyn Masterson (Sigrid Thornton). Things are looking grim for her wonder drug. Before human trials can start, she needs to prove ... [read more]
Strange happenings in the desert (2004)
Our central characters are in transit and heading towards Alice Springs for the eclipse. Travelling on the Ghan, the young doctor Matt (Patrick Brammall) leaves a group of older women with whom he shares a cabin, and meets a beautiful ... [read more]
Picnic (1982)
The mother (Pauline Sedgewick) makes a picnic on a beach for her kids. She hands out pies which they devour. It’s as if they are devouring her. The camera takes off away from the scene as though she is escaping ... [read more]
The housing problem in Victoria (1949)
An aerial shot of high density inner city housing is followed by a street level shot of children playing outside in the alleys. A young couple – Ted and Mary – walk towards their family home. Inside, the mother serves ... [read more]
Economy in Germany (c1915)
This clip begins with the title card Cartoons of the Moment followed by a scene of cartoonist Harry Julius sketching at an easel. A group of children run up to him and watch as he sketches. The three animated political ... [read more]
A soldier in the making (1915)
Will Brown (Guy Hastings) has joined up. He realises it is time to put away the things of his sporting youth. He picks up his rifle and heads off to training camp. He learns how to march, shoot and dig ... [read more]
‘The dark is following me’ (1987)
In desperation, Ruby Rose (Melita Jurisic) decides to hike to her home valley, after seven years of isolation in the Tasmanian Highlands. She feeds the animals and leaves a note for Henry, and another for Gem, promising to come back. ... [read more]
Young people and the Drop-In (1977)
A member of the Addison Road Drop-In provides an on-the-spot commentary on a parking policeman or 'brown bomber’ booking a motorist on Marrickville Road. Inside the recreation room at the centre, the young men play pool and muck around ... [read more]
Out of a hat (1996)
Since they can’t decide who should be their candidate for mayor the caucus of four Australian Labor Party (ALP) councillors meet to draw the lucky name out of a hat. [read more]
West Australians at the trenches (c1917)
Men of the 11th Battalion, AIF, marching beside a light railway near Armentières, probably in early June 1916. Soldiers rest by a road with their horses tethered in shell holes. A military padre takes divine service. A ... [read more]
The mystery of the man in the tie (c1915)
As in clip one, the camera is on the wharf at Anzac Cove, but the pan is longer, covering more of the scene, and from a longer distance. The size of the encampment and the logistics required are more obvious. ... [read more]
Codenamed Breakaway (1956)
The explosion of Breakaway, one of the four nuclear fission bombs tested at Maralinga between September and October 1956. [read more]
Evelyn goes into mourning (1999)
Evelyn Spence (Maya Stange) gets her head shaved and moves into a cage. Her husband has just died from dysentery and this is part of the mourning ritual of the villagers. The pearl trader Mick Carpenter (Rufus Sewell) checks on ... [read more]
Two pounds of butter (1934)
George (George Wallace) has to mind the grocery store while his boss is out. He has no training for the task and almost destroys the shop with a succession of demanding customers, starting with Mrs Doyle (Marie La Varre). [read more]
The New Holden FE (1956)
This clip shows the whole advertisement minus the opening and closing titles. A curtain parts to reveal the new model Holden FE on display on a turntable in a car showroom. As the car spins around, a male voice-over lists ... [read more]
