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AIDS awareness (1993)
Eight-year-old Troy acknowledges the causes and effects of his AIDS condition. [read more]
San Francisco opens its golden gate to UNCIO (1945)
This is a collection of mute colour and black-and-white footage shot by members of the Australian delegation to the 1945 UNCIO Conference in San Francisco, and shot in Hawaii during the delegates’ stopover on the way home. [read more]
Queen Elizabeth II opens Victorian Parliament (1954)
This clip from a home movie filmed by Australian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, on 25 February 1954, shows the arrival of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh by car outside the Parliament of Victoria. They ... [read more]
Rail bus (c1936)
Men are gathered around a rail bus that sits at the depot. An elevated camera captures a rail bus as it pulls out of the depot and travels along the rail tracks out towards the main road. [read more]
Bananas in Pyjamas song (1999)
This is the animated Bananas in Pyjamas series theme song. [read more]
Scotties (1983)
While spending the day sick at home, Julie Fry (Rebecca Stewart) develops a theory about paper and tissue boxes. [read more]
Street life in Rimside (2003)
At a loose end, Beau takes a stroll through the streets of Rimside. [read more]
Hot to trot (1977)
A cartoon adventure featuring Captain Goodvibes, the pig of steel, and his sidekick Astro. You can watch Hot to Trot here in its entirety. [read more]
Bark burials (1984)
Grahame Walsh explains the sophistication of Aboriginal burial ceremonies and compares them to ancient Egyptian burials. [read more]
Maoris give their war cry (c1922)
This Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1922 shows the New Zealand Maori rugby league team on the field of a stadium performing the haka ceremonial war dance before a match. The clip then ends with a shot of the New ... [read more]
An organised destruction (1947)
The Creswick Forestry School ensures that scientific, theoretical and practical knowledge and experience inform forest policy, ensuring that reforestation, allocation of state forests, and protection against bushfires combat the ‘organised destruction’ of the industry. [read more]
The secret garden (2005)
Our chance to see in close-up this extraordinary living fossil, a survivor from the Jurassic period. And it’s hidden deep in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. [read more]
The AIM nursing hostel, Birdsville (1947)
At the Australian Inland Mission nursing hostel in Birdsville, the AIM sisters alternate between nursing and domestic duties. One of the sisters treats a young girl who has an injured finger. She washes and dresses the girl’s ... [read more]
Guns and pigs (1983)
In interview and voice-over, James Leahy recollects the first time the Leahy brothers came across a new community of highlanders. He explains that, fearful of being outnumbered by large numbers of people they could not communicate with, the brothers felt ... [read more]
Internal radiation (2007)
Scientist Chris Busby explains that our knowledge of the health effects of exposure to nuclear radiation are based on a study of 'external radiation’ not 'internal radiation’ (when low levels of radiation are taken inside the body), which is much ... [read more]
Incidents of my flight (1928)
This clip features one complete side of a two-sided gramophone record. In 'Incidents of my flight’, pioneer aviator Bert Hinkler recounts key events in his record-breaking solo flight from England to Australia. [read more]
The battle for Menin Road begins (1917)
A line of soldiers marching forward from Ypres, along the Menin Road. Motorised traffic returns to the town through the centre of the road, horse-drawn limbers on the right. The soldiers have exchanged their slouch hats for the relatively new ... [read more]
HMAS Sydney’s Carley float (2004)
A tiny, war-ravaged liferaft from the HMAS Sydney is our only physical link to Australia’s worst-ever naval disaster. [read more]
‘Who’s Juanita Nielsen?’ (1981)
After her father’s death, his friend Tom Riley (Reg Lye) tells Jessica Simmonds (Liz Alexander) that he was murdered. In the pub, he explains the similarity to the disappearance of heiress Juanita Nielsen. [read more]
‘Let’s get the bastard pegged’ (1983)
Sapphire miners Johnny (Harry Hopkins) and Mike (Colin Friels) peg a new claim, but newcomer Andy (Dennis Miller) disputes their right to the land. He uses his bulldozer to underline the point. [read more]
