4530 clips prev 1 2 ... 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 ... 226 227 next
Those magnificent men in their flying machines (1919)
Ground staff swing the propeller on an RE8 aircraft of No. 3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, at an airfield in northern France, in late 1917 or early 1918. At Clairmarais aerodrome – probably around late April or May 1918 – ... [read more]
What is culture? (2004)
Warren H Williams and John Williamson singing a song beneath the shadow of Uluru. Warren H Williams explains what culture means to him. [read more]
The past is another country (2000)
Kevin and Margaret were newly married with four young children when we first met them. It’s now 30 years later and many things have changed. The children have grown up and moved away, Kevin and Margaret have split up and ... [read more]
The artful dancer (1989)
George Plimpton sits with Vali Myers to speak about her life in Paris in the late 1940s and early ‘50s, her wild days and downward spiral and what saved her. This clip contains photographs of Vali in the 1950s and ... [read more]
‘A fair go for the working people’ (1955)
This is a partly dramatised, newsreel-style sequence depicting the WWF’s appeal to the broader labour movement for help in fighting amendments to the 1954 Stevedoring Act. Waterside workers’ wives prepare food parcels and union organisers conduct rallies ... [read more]
Menzies addresses the troops, Palestine (1941)
This clip from a Menzies home movie begins with the Prime Minister’s visit to one of the field hospitals in the Middle East during his trip to meet the troops in 1941. We see nurses, medical staff and injured troops ... [read more]
What is great writing? (2001)
Tensions in the newsroom come to the surface when Bernard Brewster (Jack Thompson) singles out David Meredith (Matt Day) for praise, citing an article that he has written in defiance of instructions from news editor Curtis Condon (Denis Moore). David’s ... [read more]
The war zoo (c1915)
This clip begins with the hand of the artist (Harry Julius) drawing seven animals including a bear, bulldog, turkey and daschund, which surround a title card ‘the war zoo’. Three of the animals are introduced through a brief sketch: 'the ... [read more]
The garden scene (1987)
This is an excerpt from the garden scene in Act One of Voss. Nighttime in the garden of the Sydney home of the rich merchant Mr Bonner, who will help finance Voss’s expedition to cross the country. Two of his ... [read more]
‘You’d have to burn the place down’ (2008)
Carla (Claire van der Boom) shows Ray (David Roberts) a sample of the money she’s found and tries to persuade him to help her steal the rest of it. When he baulks at her suggestion, she questions whether he’s serious ... [read more]
The proposition (2005)
The outlaw Charlie Wilson (Guy Pearce) has been arrested by Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone). Stanley offers to pardon Charlie and his brother Mike (Richard Wilson), provided Charlie kills his older brother Arthur (Danny Huston), who remains at large. [read more]
‘Not a career’ (1997)
Ashley Paske was a television serial star for a brief incandescent moment. Prompted by this popularity, he left for the UK to work in theatre. He returned to Oz but did not find work as an actor. He is now ... [read more]
It gets in the blood (2005)
Lauren Moret, a nuclear weapons scientist, says that when depleted uranium burns after use in weapons, the radioactive gas released into the atmosphere has deadly effects when ingested into the bloodstream of humans. [read more]
On the war in Iraq (2004)
At a conference in Jakarta, Malcolm Fraser speaks out against going to war in Iraq. [read more]
A lash at the enemy (1944)
On an armoured patrol into the desert, men of the Australian 9th Division run into an Italian patrol. Peter Linton (Peter Finch) is wounded in the first skirmish. Bluey Donkin (Grant Taylor) and Milo Trent (Chips Rafferty) break off alone ... [read more]
The missing letter (1928)
At breakfast, James Carson (Gaston Mervale) conceals a letter addressed to his daughter Cherry (Isable McDonagh billed as 'Marie Lorraine’) before claiming that no letters have arrived for her. Note: The original aspect ratio is 1.33:1 (Academy full frame). ... [read more]
In the lab (2011)
Lucy (Emily Browning) submits to a medical experiment involving a narrow tube being inserted down her throat. [read more]
A man without a past (1989)
Joseph Mueller (Max von Sydow) is cross-examined by the prosecuting counsel (Nancy Black). She questions Joseph about the evidence of his identity being destroyed in the bombing of Dresden in the Second World War. Iya Zetnick (Julia Blake) appears on ... [read more]
‘This is not easy’ (1996)
The mother (Celine O’Leary) sits watching her daughter’s angry drawing. She has come to tell her that her father is moving out. The child carries on a conversation that her mother can’t hear – a series of denials. Her father ... [read more]
The South Mine, Broken Hill (1936)
At the South Mine in Broken Hill, horses are lowered into the mine in cages at the beginning of each shift. The cages are powered by electrical winding machinery which is filmed in close-up by Frank Hurley. The men who ... [read more]
