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The two-up school (1919)
Bill (Arthur Tauchert) and his 'cobber’ Ginger Mick (Gilbert Emery) go to the illicit 'two-up’ school after several hours of drinking. The police raid the game, chasing the players all over the neighbourhood. Mick hides in a horse feed barrel, ... [read more]
The football clinic (1996)
Footage shows Indigenous children playing football in a remote country, watched by Michael Long. Indigenous player Gilbert McAdam is seen working with young children. Voice-over narrator Ernie Dingo explains that, to help with racism in football, the read more]
Bankers, bookies and bad news (1920)
The Galloways have come to the city unannounced, to withdraw emergency funds from Mrs Galloway’s inheritance. Their son Gilbert (Rawdon Blandford) abandons them at home while he goes to the races with Olive, his mistress (Marie La Varre). Jo Galloway ... [read more]
Debt collecting on deck (1928)
HMAS Sydney rushes to engage the Emden off the Cocos Islands, after picking up the alarm signal sent from the wireless station at Deception Island. The Sydney crew man their stations, but one crewman decides it’s time to collect ... [read more]
Seeing clearly (2011)
The bed-bound Elizabeth Hunter (Charlotte Rampling) is starting to rally after her stroke, buoyed by the thought of seeing her grown children later in the day. Basil (Geoffrey Rush) and Dorothy (Judy Davis) have both arrived in the country but ... [read more]
The land is sad (1993)
A sweeping aerial view of mountains jutting out of the flat desert-scape. A song of the area plays out in subtitles over the image. An elder tells us about the sacred Ancestor of this area, and his relation to him. [read more]
The pram (1983)
After the title of the film, a man and a woman establish the conflict over what they would like to make a film about. A dramatic scene follows showing the use of a pram in a terrorist kidnapping. The film ... [read more]
The Australians are coming (1940)
The German commander at Beersheba (Eric Reiman) is temporarily befuddled by an artillery barrage that’s designed to throw up dust. Out of this murk come hundreds of Australian Light Horsemen, in a great charge across open ground, followed by heavy ... [read more]
The long wait (1993)
It is 1955 and the ship Joyita has disappeared in the Pacific Ocean. The narrator talks about the weather, the storms, the wet season, and the difficulty of predicting what might have happened to it. There is a lot of ... [read more]
Grim drought’s devastating hand (1920)
The drought has dried up rivers and creeks and cracked the earth around Wallaby Station, but Jo Galloway (Charles Beetham) holds on grimly. His stockmen cut down trees to feed hungry sheep. They are so hungry the stockmen have trouble ... [read more]
Beauty and the boy (1983)
Aunt Vanessa (Wendy Hughes) has returned from London, where she has lived for some years. Her sister Lila (Robyn Nevin) takes PS (Nicholas Gledhill), the six-year-old son of their late sister, to the ship to meet her. PS has never ... [read more]
‘Things grow and you kill ‘em’ (1987)
In the highlands of Tasmania in 1933, Ruby and Henry Rose live by snaring wallaby and possum for meat and skins. They have adopted a homeless boy as their son, Gem. Henry (Chris Haywood) skins wallabies without sentiment but Gem ... [read more]
Rabbit eradication (1954)
This clip summarises the advised methods used to remove rabbits from farming land. Farmer Heck Bradley’s neighbour’s paddock is shown three months after a successful eradication campaign. Bradley and his neighbours decide to undertake a similar project on their adjoining ... [read more]
Rabbit poisoning (1954)
This clip shows a farming property being prepared for the first stage of rabbit eradication – poisoning. [read more]
The negotiators (1968)
Rio Tinto in Australia was unable to commit to Lang Hancock’s iron ore find without the input of the parent company in Britain, so Hancock confronted the Chairman and CEO in London – Sir Val Duncan read more]
‘The best lemon tree in the street’ (1996)
Having sold his millionth nail, Uncle (voiced by John Flaus) retires from his hardware store. He and his wife become surrogate parents to their nephew (narrator William McInnes). After Aunt dies, Uncle relies on his dog Reg for company. In ... [read more]
How to be earnest (1989)
Denton and co-host ‘Gwen from ABC Documentaries’ (Genevieve Lemon) introduce the episode topic, heroin. [read more]
The rehearsal (2004)
It’s week five of nine weeks of rehearsals, and the conductor of the Messiah, Clive Pascoe, tells his choristers they’re nowhere near ready. He’s a tough leader but the troops know that he has to be firm to achieve the ... [read more]
Port Arthur (c1932)
The convict history of the Tasmanian settlement of Port Arthur is explained in this clip, with a voice-over accompanying scenes of the site. Convict history is re-enacted to evoke the past. A couple and a tour group walk through the ... [read more]
The biggest crime case (2006)
In a dramatic re-creation of events of 1 January 1963, two boys find the body of Dr Bogle (Rhys Muldoon) beside Lane Cove River. Police and detectives arrive at the scene to discover Mrs Chandler’s (Octavia Baron Martin) half-naked body ... [read more]
