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‘You’ve done it this time Pansy’ (1979)
Pansy (Mike Preston) assaults a company engineer (Sean Myers) and is fired by Old Arthur (Gerry Duggan). Pansy’s workmates threaten to walk off the job in solidarity. [read more]
Children join the bus (1993)
Young children in Moree are given permission to go to the swimming pool with the university students led by Charles Perkins. The children scramble onto the bus, and begin to sing a contemporary popular song. On the bus, they are ... [read more]
‘How’s your day been sweetheart?’ (1987)
It is nearly two years since Suzi Lovegrove learned she had contracted HIV/AIDS. Her husband Vince asks how her day has been. In voice-over, Vince explodes some of the myths about read more]
The contestants (1911)
Against the backdrop of foliage, the first 15 contestants sit for the camera. The girls, dressed in their best attire, are seated next to large numbered cards. At what seems to be the prompt of an off-screen suggestion, some of ... [read more]
The popular sport of surfboarding (1925)
This is a segment from the newsreel The Spectator Magazine. Three surfboard riders take off on a full wave at the north end of Bondi Beach, riding large Hawaiian-style longboards. They are shown from the side, then filmed from the ... [read more]
Ilia, the opal miner (2004)
Twenty three-year-old Ilia Katsapouikidis decides to mine opal following his grandfather Kyriaki’s profession. Ilia joins Kyriaki’s friend Georgie Athanasiadis as a partner in the enterprise, hoping to benefit from Georgie’s experience. [read more]
Constructing the expressway (1968)
Aerial shots of section one of the expressway show work completed by mid-1964, a year into construction of the Sydney-Newcastle expressway. A map illustrates the first two sections of the expressway including the interchange at Mount White. The Department of ... [read more]
Perth (1940)
Shots of Perth’s main streets capture the people, transport and architecture of the city in the 1940s. Solid brick homes are shown in leafy residential suburbs. The camera then focuses on a variety of Western Australian flora, concluding with the ... [read more]
A quick grope (2011)
Athol Shreve (Colin Friels), a politician tipped to be Australia’s next prime minister, makes a pass at Dorothy (Judy Davis) in the back of his limousine. After Dorothy rejects him, she learns something about her mother she wishes she hadn’t. ... [read more]
Escaping from the Taliban (2002)
Three Afghans have escaped from the Taliban and arrived in Australia as asylum seekers. They express their views of life in Australia and the reasons for escaping from Afghanistan. [read more]
‘Let’s get down to it’ (1989)
As a sketch titled ‘Junkies – the sitcom’ draws to a close, ‘Gwen from ABC Documentaries’ (Genevieve Lemon) is not amused. She demands that Denton carry out a serious interview. Moving from fiction to reality, Denton begins an interview ... [read more]
The news (1997)
At police headquarters, Inspector Malcolm Thorne (Gary Day) asks Detective Steve Hayden (Peter Mochrie) where Tessa is. When Steve acts defensive, Thorne pressures him to keep the case on track. At the zoo, employee Sally Hicks (Cathy Campbell) gives a ... [read more]
Into the history books (1983)
In the panic and confusion of the Labor government’s sacking and the packing up and the frenzied shredding of documents, Gough Whitlam stands alone, a tragic figure, before all his friends and colleagues. He is called to the steps of ... [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]
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]
Out of the darkness (1993)
A dancer emerges from the darkness, entering the glow of the ceremonial fire. He moves deliberately, then kneeling by the fire, shakes his shoulders. He takes brushes from the fire, and scatters the embers over his back. Elders walk by ... [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]
A brief sketch of Walter Burley Griffin (c1976)
Using voice-over, interviews, sketches and still shots of buildings, this clip gives a biographical overview of Griffin and describes the stylistic influences on his development as an architect. [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]
Creation (1992)
Benny Tjapaltarri and Mick Ngamurarri tell us the significance of the Dreaming, and how the Dreaming ancestors created the landscape. [read more]
