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‘You won’t last 24 hours in Victoria’ (1976)
Superintendent Cobham (Frank Thring) tells (unseen) members of the press that Dan Morgan will not be tolerated if he returns to Victoria. Billy (David Gulpilil) rides back to a hidden camp with news of what people are saying. Morgan announces ... [read more]
Argentine ants (1968)
In this television advertisement, seen here in its entirety, Trapper Tom (Barry Crocker) is hunting Argentine ants in a forest. He comes across a reward sign posted on a tree and explains how children can obtain a ‘licence to hunt ... [read more]
‘Near and yet-so-far neighbours’ (1970)
Jack Anderson (Tony Ward) and Gillian O’Keefe (Judy Leech) live on opposite sides of the Maribyrnong Creek. Jack lives in squalor with his mother (Jean Higgs) and long-term lodger Stanley (Stanley Randall), a war pensioner. Gillian lives with her middle-class ... [read more]
Patrick makes contact (1978)
Patrick (Robert Thompson) contacts Kathy (Susan Penhaligon) while she is typing. Kathy establishes communication with Patrick and asks Matron Cassidy (Julia Blake) to witness her discovery. Patrick refuses to respond. After Matron Cassidy leaves, Patrick transmits the word ‘secret’ to ... [read more]
Greg feels special (1998)
Vicki (Susie Porter) is happy, busy and preoccupied, which prompts her husband Greg (Tamblyn Lord) to think she is having an affair. She takes him to see what she has been painting: a room with proclamations of love for him ... [read more]
Natural disasters (1993)
Skipping class, Nick (Alex Dimitriades) flirts with Jodie (Abi Tucker) outside her science class window before teacher Bill Southgate (Tony Martin) sends Nick back to class. After school, Nick, whose line of credit is not good in Ruby’s (Jan Adele) ... [read more]
Opal expertise (2004)
Opal miner Mark Jackson takes his opal find to his father Stuart, who is a licensed valuer and opal cutter. Cutting and polishing rough stones can increase or decrease their value. [read more]
Charlie and Dolores get married (1950)
On a park bench, Charlie (Cynthia Bidencope) and Dolores (Lilian Fetherstonhaugh) bashfully sit beside each other. Charlie takes Dolores’ hand and kisses her before proposing to her. Dolores nods her head in agreement and Charlie’s heart races. They kiss once ... [read more]
Rooftop party (1927)
This clip from a silent black-and-white cinema advertisement for Castlecrag Estate, a newly built suburb of Sydney, shows a group of women, possibly including Marion Mahoney, Walter Burley Griffin’s wife, enjoying afternoon tea overlooking Middle Harbour. It also shows a ... [read more]
Pedigree for a hanging (1993)
Ronald Ryan was the last man hanged in Australia. Narration and black-and-white stills tell the story of his upbringing and early life. He came from an impoverished family, brought up by his widowed mother. His wife, Dorothy Pirois recalls their ... [read more]
Researching family history (1996)
Bernadette Yhi Riley undertakes research into the life and career of her great-grandfather, Aboriginal tracker Alexander (Alec) Riley. We see her researching her family history in archives, libraries and at Dubbo Gaol. [read more]
A dancing stagehand (1932)
Tommy Dodds (George Wallace) demonstrates his storytelling skills to an unseen audience of musicians in the orchestra pit, during rehearsals for a new show. He is a stagehand, but he says he learned to dance while working on a pig ... [read more]
ANZAC Day Promotion (c1916)
This ANZAC Day cinema advertisement from approximately 1915 begins with a re-enactment of Australian soldiers in trenches under fire wearing gas masks and ends with an intertitle that says ‘A nation’s manhood is straining at its task of carving ... [read more]
Pony club (2001)
Tess Silverman-McLeod (Bridie Carter) reveals that she has no home to go to and Claire McLeod (Lisa Chappell) finally invites her to stay at Drover’s Run. Having fired her men for stealing fuel, Claire sets out to muster the cattle ... [read more]
Strong spirit (1999)
Over shots of landscape, an elder named Napanangka tells us about Moonga Moonga, a strong spirit who makes children from other cultures sick, and that 'he is bad and cheeky to people from other countries’. In order to sing these ... [read more]
Tony proposes (1980)
Tony Duff (Sam Neill) finally gets up the courage to propose to Lucinda Vane (Wendy Hughes) but he is too late. Lucinda has fallen in love with someone else and denies ever having given Tony reason to believe he had ... [read more]
‘Where have you been?’ (1985)
Fran (Noni Hazlehurst) has disappeared, leaving her friend and neighbour Marge (Annie Byron) to look after Fran’s three kids. When Fran returns home after three nights away, she introduces Jeff (Alan Fletcher), a barman she picked up on the first ... [read more]
