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‘You lookin’ or dreamin’?’ (1990)
Danny (Ben Mendelsohn) goes shopping for a Jaguar, driving the 1962 Nissan Cedric given to him by his parents for his 18th birthday. He meets Gordon Farkas (Steve Bisley), a car salesman who manages to be both insulting and friendly ... [read more]
Metropolitan life (1946)
A montage of modern city life in Sydney is accompanied by descriptive and romantic voice-over narration to build a picture of the metropolis during the day. The ‘city in the sun’ is shown through scenes of flower stalls, street vendors, ... [read more]
Costs and profits – how price grows (1948)
With the aid of cartoons, an argument is made which illustrates the chain of supply for manufacture and the associated costs. Manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer each take their own profits before passing on the inflated costs to the consumer. Figures ... [read more]
‘All good fun’ (1986)
The 'Great Desert Boat Race’ is followed by the 'Annual Bar-room Brawl’ witnessed by Police Sergeant Carruthers (Terry Gill) and the Two Old Codgers (Frank Otterson and Herb Krause). Dr Tom Callaghan (Andrew MacFarlane), Dr Chris Randall (Liz Burch) and ... [read more]
Work and play (c1925)
From a raised position, the camera films the children as they file off from school assembly and walk to class. They march in step with each other, forming perfect lines, and each row peels off as the other ends. This ... [read more]
The Birdsville Track (1954)
A pan across a skeleton-littered desert of ‘prehistoric bones’ sets the scene. As the camera sweeps across this vast landscape, the voice-over narration tells of the Aborigines, explorers, settlers, prospectors and drovers who travelled up and down the land defying ... [read more]
Hell on wheels (1981)
An injured Max (Mel Gibson) has returned to the settler’s camp, after his car has been destroyed. He offers to drive the oil tanker for their breakout attempt. Humungus’s men line up to await his charge. Humungus has put Wez ... [read more]
Animated vaudeville (1960)
An animated ‘poster man’ arrives at the front of a building on his bicycle – glue tin, paintbrush, ladder and posters in hand – to erect a poster on its facing wall. In a series of clumsy mishaps, the man ... [read more]
The wool industry (1938)
A close-up of a ‘modern stud’ sheep is shown to be the product of a ‘century’s breeding’. Sheep are hand-shorn by manual clippers; a flock of sheep at shearing season is shown; sheering sheds are filled with men shearing sheep ... [read more]
Freddie gets the job (1977)
Pym (John Meillon) and his son Larry (Harold Hopkins) are unable to find a replacement pianist after Lou has deserted – until the bustling arrival of Freddie Graves (John Ewart), piano tuner, 'picture pianist’ and man-about-town. [read more]
Between worlds (2005)
Tommy tells us about the massacre on the plains, Aboriginal peoples executed by stockmen. This is woven into his recount off his experience as a young boy – being called 'white boy’ by the blackfellas, and 'black boy’ by the ... [read more]
Family land (2005)
Gordan Syron and Elaine Pelot-Kitchener are on a boat. Gordon is showing Elaine his homeland (or the land where his family is from, often referred to as country by Indigenous people). Gordon and Elaine talk about the man Gordon killed ... [read more]
‘Give her Roses’ (1959)
This advertisement for Cadbury’s Roses chocolates shows a man dressed in hat and gloves, carrying a cane and singing to three women as he offers them each a box of Roses chocolates. The set is in the style of a ... [read more]
Nobby’s Nuts (1988)
The Nobby’s Nuts 'pub posters’ advertisement can be viewed here in its entirety. The characters in three vintage pub posters start to interact when the football from one poster lands on the table in the nightclub poster. The initial tension ... [read more]
‘The time is now and the car is Holden’ (1966)
A woman lies on a beach, dreamily relaxing under her hat. A Holden HR sedan is parked on the sand nearby. The woman runs to the car, which is filmed from different angles to show off its new exterior and ... [read more]
Roma Street Station (1899)
This actuality footage shows a train pulling up to Roma Street Station, Brisbane in 1899. Commuters disembark and exit the platform via a side gate or walk up the stairs towards the camera. [read more]
Preparing for Passchendaele (1917)
Horse-drawn wagons and trucks move forward in the run-up to the Third Battle for Ypres (also known as Passchendaele), in September 1917. The road heads east from Ypres past Hellfire Corner, a famously dangerous place on the Menin Road. Hessian ... [read more]
For better and for worst (1993)
On home video, we see Ann and Jim exchange vows as they wed in prison in 1991. Jim expresses his love for his wife. Interviewed two years later, Jim describes how, upon release from prison, he killed her with a ... [read more]
Loneliness is a pack of dogs that runs at night (1977)
Charlie (Elisabeth Crosby) and Mrs Bilson (Ruth Cracknell) have become secret but firm friends. Mrs Bilson tells Charlie that you have to hold something back in love, or you will suffer. She is haunted by memories of her own unhappy ... [read more]
‘What about the children?’ (1986)
Hughie (Martyn Sanderson), deputised by his wife to talk to Charlie (Shane Connor) about his Aboriginal origins, tries to put his concerns in terms of the children but only succeeds in alerting Charlie to the fact that Roie really does ... [read more]
