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Stencil art (1984)
Grahame Walsh, an expert in stencil art, explores Carnarvon Gorge to find evidence of occupation by Aboriginal people 20,000 years ago. [read more]
Kuala Lumpur (c1930)
This clip features street scenes of Kuala Lumpur, including a Hindu Thaipusam festival; examples of colonial architecture; an open air wet market; hawkers and tea sellers. [read more]
‘Then there was Ned’ (1983)
Lee Whitmore narrates her childhood recollection of a regular family visitor, Ned Wethered. [read more]
Magic show (1980)
At a charity function, political powerbroker Doc Wheelan (Broderick Crawford) challenges Gregory Wolfe (Robert Powell) to prove his powers. Wolfe responds with an indignant display of magic. Society matron Miss Twist (Mary Mackay) asks Wolfe to heal her sore tooth. ... [read more]
East to West (1999)
A young girl peers out of a car window as her father drives her home. Voice-over narration in this clip is by Anita Beckman. [read more]
‘Where’s Jack’ (1991)
Joe (Jerome Ehlers) asks business contacts Rocky Borgetta (Donal Gibson) and Claw Miller (Joe Bugner) where his brother Jack is. He tells Leonie (Linda Blair) that everything’s settled. [read more]
‘You have a wildness of spirit’ (1979)
While staying with her well-to-do grandmother, Sybylla (Judy Davis) has a crisis about her looks. Her Aunt Helen (Wendy Hughes) tells her to stop looking in mirrors and tries to make her more feminine. Suitor Frank Hawden (Robert Grubb) offers ... [read more]
Mr Ten Questions (2006)
Andrew Hansen, as Mr Ten Questions, attends a promotional press conference with Hugh Jackman. [read more]
White power (1992)
Hando (Russell Crowe) drinks milk after a wild all-night party. His friend (Stephen Hall) has to return to his naval base. Hando gives him a Nazi salute as he goes. Hando explains his belief in white supremacy, and his admiration ... [read more]
‘Because you’re black’ (1985)
Having won access to his son through the Family Court, Stuart (David Kennedy) must find a new place to live. He and his son Tommy (Jamie Agius) experience first hand the difficulties for a black man seeking to rent a ... [read more]
Boodgie (2002)
The two cousins Tim (Russell Page) and Scott (Laurence Clifford) are sitting on a bench and catching up after having not seen each other for quite a while. Tim begins to tell the story of when his dog Waynee boodgied ... [read more]
Practice makes perfect (1998)
Private investigator Charles believes that once the barrier of fidelity has been broken, adultery is easier a second and third time round. Helen, Catholic mother of six, describes how her twenty-eight-year marriage ended as a result of her husband’s adultery, ... [read more]
‘You just like other Lubras’ (1936)
Mara (Dennis Hoey) is surprised when Beatrice (Margot Rhys) invites his romantic advances and kisses him. She has been cool before this. Neither of them realises that the jealous Sondra has drugged Beatrice’s food. Mara soon recognises the symptoms and ... [read more]
North end excision (1994)
White pastoralist Grant Martin has inherited the property from his forefathers. Harry Dixon, an Aboriginal stockman, has been granted an excision of land for his family and a friend’s. Harry has lived on the property for 33 years and has ... [read more]
Exeter Family Study (1995)
The Exeter Family Study examined health, school performance, social life, behaviour and self-esteem in children of divorced parents. Dr Rosemary Dunlop of Macquarie University says that research shows that children successfully ‘put it behind them.’ Sister Aileen Shanahan of Aquinas ... [read more]
Building and measuring stamina (1959)
Coached by Don Talbot, John Konrads’ technique is refined during training in the pool. Underwater tracking shots detail Konrads’ technique. Through training, Konrads builds stamina. This is scientifically measured back at the laboratory where lung capacity, heart rate and haemoglobin ... [read more]
Start a cycle (1975)
Australian-born Hollywood studio executive Al Daff says film producers need to find scripts that will succeed with an audience in two years time. He discusses the popularity of disaster movies at that time (the Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno era) and ... [read more]
Recollection of childhood (1993)
Three Jewish comedians, Deb Filler from New Zealand, Sandy Gutman (Austen Tayshus) from Melbourne and American Moshe Waldoks, talk about their childhoods as children of Holocaust survivors. [read more]
Sunday in Melbourne (1967)
Air Vice-Marshall Ky and his wife, on their visit to Melbourne, meet Vietnamese students at Victoria’s Government House, before attending a final press conference. [read more]
A warm welcome (1999)
Barky (Marty Denniss) and his two friends Wayne (Joel Edgerton) and Kane (Marin Mimica) arrive at Coppa’s place looking for Barky’s brother Wace. Trunny (Aaron Blabey) banters affectionately with Barky; Coppa (Andrew Wholley) is also glad to see him, but ... [read more]
