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Annual Christmas treat (c1925)
Brief intertitles introduce a Punch and Judy puppet show which plays to a large crowd of children. Another intertitle announces the arrival of Father Christmas in his chariot. He gives out presents by a Christmas tree. The clip ends with ... [read more]
Shopping week, Bondi Junction (c1926)
An intertitle introduces the ‘monster parade’ as floats and exhibits parade down the street. People in costumes include a child dressed as a wedding cake, Boy Scouts on billycarts, a ghost, Felix the Cat, what looks like two Chinese mythological ... [read more]
The iron bullocks and the railways (1947)
Two more methods of removing felled logs from the forest are shown: a tank-like machine which bulldozes its way through the bush and, where there are more permanent infrastructures, transport by railway. The timber mills – the ‘hives of industry’ ... [read more]
Cooling off (2002)
Charlie and Glenni are driving when something begins to go wrong with Glenni’s car. Glenni says she knows where they can get water. The natural water pool is too inviting, and the two end up taking a dip. [read more]
Important business (2002)
With the death of old Mrs Medlow (Eileen McEwan), Kate (Basia A’Hern) and her two brothers Mark (Shaun Loseby) and Chris (Henry Nixon) are now on their own at Wallaby Wildlife park. Kate tells Mark that Mrs Medlow has left ... [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]
‘What do we do now?’ (2003)
A group of mothers talk about how they deal with the ubiquitous television set in the centre of the living room, led by the journalist and mother of two, Rebecca le Tourneau. They swap ideas on how to pick and ... [read more]
Jack Johnson training (c1909)
In a medium shot, the camera films American boxer Jack Johnson training in preparation for a fight. A small crowd has gathered as Johnson warms up, wrestles and then practises with a sparring partner. A man with a stopwatch moves ... [read more]
She, from Epsilon (1995)
An old lady (Alethea McGrath) tells her two granddaughters (Chloe and Phoebe Ferguson) a story that a man once told her. It is about a woman from the star Epsilon, in the Southern Cross, who arrives unexpectedly on earth. She ... [read more]
‘Increase your speed’ (2000)
In this action sequence the two replicants Xanda (Jennifer Congram) and Isaac (Ric Anderson) pursue the bus driven by Hugh (Mark Owen-Taylor). Jackson (Craig Horner) meets Cybergirl (Ania Stepien), who is secretly hitching a ride in their bus. [read more]
What God meant things to bee (1958)
Smiley (Keith Calvert) takes two cages of bees to Granny McKinley (Sybil Thorndike) to help with her 'rheumatics’. He is terrified, because she is reputed to be the town witch, with a stash of gold to protect. He finds instead ... [read more]
Chaos (1986)
Caroline (Caroline Gilmer) tries to hide from the storm with her two small granddaughters Molly (Kate Ritchie) and Meghan (Kendall Monaghan). Meanwhile their mother, Connie Hampton (Tracy Mann), tries desperately to contact boyfriend Tony Baker (Noel Hodda), a navy lieutenant ... [read more]
Looking for work (1953)
This sequence depicts men brought to Australia on a work contract (Giuseppe Michelini, Luigi Borsi, Giuseppe Cusato, Giorgio Mangiamele) seeking work after the employment promised by the Australian government has failed to materialise. Friction between two of the men in ... [read more]
Introducing Jack and Henty (2007)
This clip shows two elders, Donald Kemarr Thompson and Alec Petyarr Peterson, walking through the landscape, talking about why it is important for them to tell this story. A map of the country shows where the incidents occurred. They introduce ... [read more]
‘Loaded with dough’ (1919)
After two thieves attack and rob a wealthy farmer, John Harland (Snowy Baker) knocks one of them to the ground before chasing the other through city alleyways and streets, climbing a steep wall and jumping from a high bridge. Crash-tackling ... [read more]
‘Optimism wears out with your boots’ (1938)
John Ainsworth (Lloyd Hughes) has been out of work for months when he runs into two old university acquaintances. They take a drink at a city bar, where a man selling shoelaces approaches. Joe Larkin (Alec Kellaway) is actually an ... [read more]
Vicki is feeling lonely (1998)
Vicki (Susie Porter) is finding the loneliness and monotony of being a mother of young children very difficult. When her husband Greg (Tamblyn Lord) talks excitedly about his work at the hospital while clipping his toenails in bed, she storms ... [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]
Crash landing (1992)
Two of the Doug Anthony All Stars (Tim Ferguson and Richard Fidler) emerge from the rubble after their submarine is blasted into space. The event is reported by Shitsu Tonka Corporation’s newsreader (Khym Lam) in a broadcast that is beamed ... [read more]
‘What I really like about Australia’ (1985)
In vox pops a local man (John Harrison) and a Russian (Michael Veitch, with voice-over by John Alsop) tell us what they think of Australia. Two men at the pub (Rob Sitch, Santo Cilauro) complain about Asian immigration. [read more]
