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Growing up with theatre (1997)
Wole Soyinka grew up with the traditional theatre of Nigeria. He became attracted to creating theatre in both the African and British traditions, although he insists he didn’t set out to blend the two. His own work is a product ... [read more]
‘A special place’ (2004)
Spike Milligan’s daughters describe the 'fairy letters’ – tiny letters in miniscule handwriting – their father used to make for them as children and leave around the house for them to find. As they talk about the magical world he ... [read more]
A surprise visit (1986)
Sister Theopilus (Kirrily Nolan) and Sister Beatrix (Dinah Shearing), two of the teaching nuns from Roie’s old school have come on a surprise visit to see Roie. As they leave, Grandma (Gwen Plumb) appears in her Sunday best, and charms ... [read more]
Hunting during the calm (2005)
The two elders with their spears straightened and smoothed, make holes in the ends with a stone knife for the woomera. The elders tell us the Antarrengeny people are still making spears this way today. The elders speak about the ... [read more]
The rich get richer (1983)
In 1983 Australia’s largest overseas aid project is centred on the Philippines. It’s called PADAP and it’s a shared project between Australian technological know-how and the Philippine Government. The aid money is being spent on roadworks in one particular ... [read more]
The grinding stone (2001)
Reggie Camphoo Pwerl and Donald Thompson Kemarre tell us about what Indigenous people used to carry with them when they travelled everywhere on foot – the main tool being the grinding stone. Images show the grinding stone being used to ... [read more]
The docklands (1984)
Max (Jack Thompson) and his wharfie mates set off in the early morning to work on the docks. Along the way, we’re introduced to their world as working men with wives and children, lovers and mothers. When the wharfies arrive ... [read more]
Heroes (1995)
Hugo Hutton (Ben Oxenbould) sitting on a bench near Central Station, Sydney, is joined by a streetlady (Lillian Crombie). She is drinking from a bottle in a brown paper bag, Hugo is eating a Mars Bar. After exchanging sideways glances, ... [read more]
High stakes (1946)
The cattle are dying of thirst. Desperate to find water, McAlpine heads them up over an old mountain pass that he knows. Mary (Daphne Campbell) leads them up but finds the path blocked near the top. If the cattle are ... [read more]
Business as usual (2005)
The United Nations has just completed a report on the Democratic Republic of the Congo detailing how President Joseph Kabila and his cronies are pillaging the country of its mineral riches, aided and abetted by African and other foreign companies. [read more]
The knight rescues the damsel (2009)
John (George Basha) notices a pretty white girl (Claire Bowen) being robbed by two youths – one of them apparently Asian Australian – and intervenes on her behalf. They exchange names – she tells him her name is Sydney – ... [read more]
Trouble with the police (1985)
Ben (Ken Talbot) teams up with animal activist Esme (Sheila Florance) to break into a factory farm to free battery hens. He is shocked by the conditions. A news crew and the police arrive, and after a tough egg-throwing battle, ... [read more]
Making do (2005)
Gayle Shann may not have survived her horrific injuries if her neighbour Robyn Newbury had not been a trained nurse. Robyn took instruction from the Flying Doctor service that was not able to reach the property for two hours. It ... [read more]
Nanna’s tree (2003)
A car drives along a stretch of desert road, mother and father in the front, two young girls in the rear seat. The father, annoyed by the commotion of the young girls in the back, brakes hard, and the vehicle ... [read more]
Manufacturing a teapot (c1920)
A ten-tonne drawing press shapes the body of a teapot. A jeweller and two others watch a workman operate the machine and admire its product. The teapot body is then passed to another machine which cuts off the ‘scrap’ around ... [read more]
Check out your new neighbours! (2004)
Fergus (Sean Ohlendorf) and his father Don McPhail (Brett Swain) arrive in Melbourne on the bus, and it’s an embarrassing experience for Fergus. Their arrival at their new home in front of Sophie (Megan Harrington) and Angela (Heli Simpson), two ... [read more]
An ill wind (1985)
Two US weathermen were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation when the US exploded a test hydrogen bomb in the Marshall Islands in 1954. Lamont Noley believes their exposure was the result of insufficient knowledge and care. Don Baker believes ... [read more]
The early days of coal mining (1957)
This clip re-creates the early days of mining in Australia, when contract workers laboured for long hours underground in dangerous conditions. In sunny scenes above ground filmed in colour, a group of contractors walk to the mine with their equipment. ... [read more]
Living in a film script (1996)
Two villagers explain the confusion they experienced upon the first sighting of white people in the area. Filmmaker Robin Anderson speaks about arriving in the village and the way the villagers remembered them. Footage from Joe Leahy’s Neighbours (1988) ... [read more]
National Liberation Front (1981)
When Australia sent troops to the Vietnam War, journalist Wilfred Burchett chose to report the war from the Northern Liberation Front’s side. Burchett recalls travelling with the troops and their response to him. [read more]
