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‘A great partnership’ (1942)
A family sits around the breakfast table after son Ted has finished his night shift at the munitions factory. His mother tells him how proud she is of both her sons – one in the armed forces fighting overseas on ... [read more]
Faking and fighting the final battle (c1919)
A shell explodes in No-Man’s-Land after a title suggesting that this is part of an Australian follow-up to an American attack on the Hindenburg Line in late September 1918. The title says the Australians broke through at Gillemont Farm after ... [read more]
‘We know everything’ (2007)
Constable Graham McGahan (Brendan Cowell) receives his first visit at the police caravan from Lucky Phil (Simon Laherty), who’s mildly retarded but has a great skill with numbers. McGahan kids him about the police knowing everything; Phil asks him if ... [read more]
Good and bad crooks (2003)
Restaurant owner Darren ‘Dabba’ Barrington (Timothy Spall) rejects an offer of partnership from drug dealer Chicka Martin (Gary Sweet). Dabba is an experienced criminal now largely going straight. Chicka wants to launder drug money through his loss-making restaurant, but Dabba ... [read more]
Science, technology and research (c1962)
This television advertisement highlights General Motors Holden’s research and training programs, apprenticeships, cadetships and scholarships, and the contribution they make to help Australia 'meet the challenge of the times’. Explanatory voice-over narration accompanies footage of workers and researchers in factories, ... [read more]
Henpecked and harassed (1939)
Mrs Chedworth (Rita Pauncefort) is in full flight during the morning rush hour at their rented suburban bungalow. She tears strips off both the youngest child Fred (Rodney Jacobs) and daughter Susie (Jean Hatton) in preparation for her real target, ... [read more]
Losing your head (1971)
Grant (Gary Bond) has succumbed to the temptation of two-up. Flushed with success, he sees the chance to win enough money to buy out his $1,000 bond with the education department. That would mean never going back to the one-room ... [read more]
‘God, with a better suit’ (2001)
Diane Davis (Mandy McElhinney) explains to legal aid solicitor Stephen (Mitchell Butel) that she and her husband Wayne (Steve Rodgers) have been turned down by 14 legal firms, all of whom have claimed connections to Centabank. Stephen explains their options ... [read more]
‘Any other leads?’ (2008)
Police officer Steve Owen (Rodger Corser) discusses the Alphonse Gangitano murder case with his boss Gary Butterworth (Frankie J Holden), after discovering that the key witnesses have left the country. On the streets of Carlton, Alphonse Gangitano (Vince Colosimo) – ... [read more]
Unprotected forests in danger (1991)
Over footage of a beautiful old growth forest, narrator Noni Hazlehurst explains that, at the current rate of deforestation, Australia’s unprotected forests could no longer exist in 250 years’ time. The forest’s native animals are shown as the narrator explains ... [read more]
‘They start life’s race with a handicap’ (1939)
This clip shows the conditions of those living in low income areas of inner city Sydney. The children living in this environment, according to the narration, ‘start life’s race with a handicap’ placing a responsibility on the community whose duty ... [read more]
Ballarat (c1960)
Two intertitles introduce this segment – ‘Ballarat’ and ‘Shell House’. The clip begins with shots of Shell House which has walls covered in murals made from shells. Identifiable images on the walls include a crest which says ‘Australian Commonwealth Military ... [read more]
‘We’re no-one, we’re nobody’ (2005)
Tracy (Cate Blanchett), her brother Ray (Martin Henderson) and her boyfriend Jonny (Dustin Nguyen) have driven from Sydney to an isolated farm, to buy a large amount of amphetamines. At the farm, they find Lionel Dawson (Hugo Weaving), dying of ... [read more]
The last of the Mohicans (1962)
The old 'bottle-oh’ has worked for seven days a week, year in and year out, collecting empties. He’s never used the whip on his mare and talks about her as though she is a person. The iceman is another of ... [read more]
Warfare and its consequences (1992)
In a wide shot, many highlanders are chanting and running through the grass with spears. Joe sits at home looking distraught. The Ganiga return to the village and attend to a wounded man. They can’t take him to the hospital ... [read more]
Prices and wages (1948)
A woman in the butchers can only afford to buy cheap meat; a young boy doesn’t have enough money for a chocolate; a woman is outraged by the cost of vegetables from the grocer; a man in a café is ... [read more]
Playing with fire (1983)
Detective Inspector Miles (Tim Robertson), known as Killer Miles to the uniformed men, cautiously approaches a luxury cruiser tied up at the wharf. Its owner is 'Nipper’ Jackson (Tony Barry), one of Sydney’s most notorious criminals. He and Miles are ... [read more]
An ace is laid to rest (1918)
A brief shot of an aeroplane falling from the sky leads to a series of shots of officers and other ranks of No. 3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, examining the wreckage of Captain Manfred von Richthofen’s aeroplane, a Fokker Dr. ... [read more]
Bobby and Pikey make history (1983)
Tommy Woodcock (Tom Burlinson) runs Phar Lap onto the track at Flemington for the 1930 Melbourne Cup. The horse has been kept in hiding after an attempt on his life; the race has been delayed 15 minutes waiting for the ... [read more]
The rat’s tale (1932)
Rat tails bring a reward of sixpence each (equivalent to about $5 today) and Lord Howe Island locals join the hunt for the pests. Two women take their three fox terriers to smoke out a family of rats hidden in ... [read more]
