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A survivor (1976)
Harry Butler puts his hand into a rocky crevice and brings out a brown tree snake, also called the territory tiger. While expertly handling the snake, he tells us that this creature is one of the fauna that has thrived ... [read more]
‘This is our home now’ (2007)
Rose (Joan Chen) and her husband 'Uncle Bill’ (Steven Vidler) kiss after she moves back in, seven years after she left him. Rose’s son Tom (Joel Lok) gets a nosebleed as he watches them. Rose resents the presence of Bill’s ... [read more]
A trip to the cinema (1941)
In a burst of colour, eight children of various ages happily stream out of a suburban house and pile (miraculously) into a car waiting outside. The film then cuts to the children getting out of the other side of the ... [read more]
‘The oldest trick in the book’ (1986)
Judith (Lindy Davies) coaxes Frank (John Hargreaves) and Malcolm (Colin Friels) to go for a walk. Malcolm wants Frank to explain how he gets the money in a stick-up, but the demonstration goes wrong. In the pub later, Frank’s friend ... [read more]
The circus arrives (1949)
Once the circus train has arrived, the task of unloading begins. The elephants and ponies are guided out of the carriages. The elephants are then shown pulling the poles for the big top from the carriages. Children watch as the ... [read more]
Java in the 1930s (c1933)
Local Javanese and Europeans are gathered around two Rolls Royce vehicles which are loaded with the travelling party’s belongings. Javanese villagers are filmed walking along a road and washing at a water fountain. The tropical terrain is also shown. [read more]
A six way investment (c1956)
This advertisement begins on a building site with a man loading a sheet of plywood onto the back of the new Holden utility. A voice-over describes purchasing the new ute as a 'six way investment’. Shots of the utility in ... [read more]
‘A dago just the same’ (1966)
Nino Culotta (Walter Chiari) comes to meet Harry Kelly (Chips Rafferty), father of Kay (Clare Dunne), the woman he wants to marry. Harry is a successful building contractor, who thinks his daughter can do better. [read more]
Homecoming (1997)
Two men sit by a waterhole. Mandildjara people are picking fruit from trees, and digging in the earth for food. A man cracks something three times, then tosses a dead goanna onto the soil. The narrator tells us that it ... [read more]
The worst insult in the universe (1995)
The man (Syd Brisbane) and the woman (Ulli Birvé) arrive in the desert outside Las Vegas, because he has always wanted to go there. She does not, so she waits overnight while he tries his luck. They jump through space-time ... [read more]
The happy years (c1958)
This 10-minute film, seen here in full, showcases the School Medical Service provided by the NSW Department of Public Health for primary and high school students. [read more]
Arthur, the ring-a-ding-a-ling-a-list king (1972)
This clip is the opening theme song for the animation series, Arthur and the Square Knights of the Round Table. [read more]
The social whirl (1928)
Cherry Carson (Isabel McDonagh billed as 'Marie Lorraine’) and James Carson (Gaston Mervale) arrive at a society masked ball. Carson’s business partner Karl Rossi (Arthur McLaglen) keeps an eye on guests. Note: The original aspect ratio is 1.33:1 (Academy full ... [read more]
‘Our castle’ (2008)
A young man is rollerblading in a car park, while Owen and others are begging outside the Oasis youth centre. They all go to a squat where there is one mattress. Owen and Haley talk about their experiences with drugs ... [read more]
Santa Teresa Mission (1964)
Images of the Santa Teresa Mission in the Northern Territory in the early 1960s. Scenes include children in the classroom, on the oval and playing in the yard. [read more]
A critical housing problem (1957)
In Sydney in the mid-1950s, a housing shortage forces large families to live in dilapidated houses and single rooms in run-down tenement flats. Leonard Teale’s voice-over narration emphasises both the physical and psychological impact of living in such conditions and ... [read more]
What is it like to die? (2003)
Children splash around in a desert waterhole. Penny (Kirsty McDonald), face down in the water, is holding her breath. Suddenly, she is pulled up. Her cousin Steven (Rhimi Johnson Page) demands to know what she was doing. She tells him, ... [read more]
This is our place (1992)
The skinheads rush to their local pub to confront some young Vietnamese men playing pool. Gabe (Jacqueline McKenzie), Jacqui (Janei Anderson) and Bubs (James McKenna) arrive late, having been left behind. Gabe tries to stop Hando from hurting the younger ... [read more]
The Aboriginal struggle (1972)
Gary Foley talks about white control of the Black movement accompanied by images of the Sydney Black Moratorium march to the Sydney Town Hall on 14 July 1972. [read more]
The woman rejects the tramp (1906)
The artist draws a tramp to meet with the pretty woman, but she rejects the tramp. [read more]
