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Family reunion (2006)
Tutu (voiced by Emily Hunt), Chump (voiced by Patrick Floersheim) and Stretch (voiced by Annie Lindner) attempt to rescue Zef (voiced by Jono Wood) who is trapped in ‘The Badness’ place. [read more]
Upstairs, downstairs (1989)
In the salon, the women work long hours for very little pay while the women they attend to are the socialites of Sydney society. Mrs Darcy-Twining (Pat Bishop) and her mousey daughter (Lucinda Jones) arrive at the salon expecting to ... [read more]
Pathé Baby 9.5mm camera (2007)
Amateur filmmaker Frank Straford demonstrates his father’s original brown leather 1920s Pathé Baby 9.5mm camera and tripod. He contrasts the distinctive sprocket holes of 9.5mm with 16mm film and displays the cassettes the film came in. [read more]
Leeton state fruit cannery (c1926)
A row of women halve and stone peaches, which are fed via conveyor belt into a peeling machine. Women sort the damaged fruit from the good fruit. Another machine grades the peaches which are packed into cans by hand according ... [read more]
‘Holden’s got more horses’ (1966)
A man walks out of a house and gets into his 1966 Holden HR sedan. We see a pack of galloping horses as the narrator describes the 'thundering power’ of the HR’s 145 horsepower engine, new acceleration and twin carburettors. ... [read more]
‘… the ball got a bit of lift’ (1984)
Now the English cricket captain, Douglas Jardine (Hugo Weaving) is determined to return from the upcoming Australian tour with the Ashes. He’s obsessed with the batting of Donald Bradman (Gary Sweet) and determined to discover his weaknesses. He talks to ... [read more]
Canadian turbulence (1983)
Explorer Dick Smith is on a round-the-world solo helicopter flight. He is travelling in northern Canada when he is forced to land because of poor weather. [read more]
The promised land (1977)
While Miss Harrington (Jeune Pritchard) and Captain McEwan (Martin Phelan) talk about the future of the colony, the convict women dream of escaping it, to a safer world 'over the mountains’. [read more]
You can’t please everyone (1975)
Al Daff says you can’t make pictures that please everybody. He tries to gauge movie audiences’ taste in different regions of the world, and to anticipate any changes in that taste. [read more]
Surfie chic (2003)
Australia is a world leader in surf wear and surf culture. Robert Moore has been designing for Mambo for many years and is one of the best in the business, despite very little art school training. [read more]
Wandjina (2005)
Scotty Martin shows us rock paintings of Wandjina, the ancestor who – in Scotty’s culture – is the being who created the world, giving Aborigines culture and law. Or, as Scotty puts it, 'the boss’. [read more]
Modern appliances (2006)
Electrolux asked design students from around the world to come up with a set of designs for household gadgets for 2020. The result is a collection on show at the Sydney Powerhouse Museum. [read more]
Maurice Chevalier impression (c1931)
On a stage inside Frank Thring’s Efftee Film Studios, veteran stage performer Minnie Love impersonates French comedian and singer Maurice Chevalier singing the songs 'Valentine’ (1924) and 'On Top of the World, Alone’. [read more]
True story (2006)
Rupert Kathner (Ben Mendelsohn) announces his filmmaking vision: a projector atop the tallest city building screening his movies on white clouds in the sky, the entire world his audience. [read more]
‘A ding-dong row’ (1919)
Bill (Arthur Tauchert) is upset when Doreen (Lottie Lyell) arrives to meet him, followed by 'the stror 'at coot’ – a rival for her affections (Harry Young, wearing the straw hat). Bill sends him packing with strong words, which causes ... [read more]
’Dearest, I love you’ (1929)
The love of Paula Marsh (Isabel McDonagh billed as 'Marie Lorraine’) for Lee Travers (Josef Bambach) is undermined by Paula’s feelings of remorse over her activities as a thief. [read more]
A new multicultural home (1957)
In this 1957 clip, TE Carpenter (Pat Tingwell – younger brother of Bud), the boring contractor from Boorandarra, has taken a job on the Snowy Mountains Scheme and has been settled in the new township of Cabramurra. He and his ... [read more]
Whitlam backs Marcos’s Asian forum idea (1974)
Then prime minister, Gough Whitlam, addresses the State Dinner at Malacañang Palace, Manila, hosted by President Ferdinand and Mrs Imelda Marcos on 11 February 1974. The dinner is followed by a performance from the Bayanihan Dance Company. The next day ... [read more]
Antarctic vigil (1952)
You can view Antarctic Vigil here in its entirety. An Australian ship lumbers south through heavy seas towards Antarctica. At the forbidding Balleny Islands, claimed by New Zealand, the inaccessible terrain forbids a landing. King penguin chicks covered in down ... [read more]
Drawing a positive character (1992)
Andrea Stretton is talking to Peter Carey. He is visiting Australia from his home in New York where his latest book, The Tax Inspector (1991), has just been published to rave reviews. The interview discusses whether getting some distance is ... [read more]
