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Moon echoes (1950)
This clip explains how radio signals are sent to the moon and reflected back. It begins with exterior footage of the Radio Australia headquarters in Shepparton, Victoria where radio signals are sent to a receiving station at Hornsby, New South ... [read more]
A tense opening (1976)
Helen (Jenny Lee), alone and very pregnant, has slipped and fallen while in the garden at Freda’s place. The trauma precipitates her labour and things look grim until Barry (Brian Wenzel) arrives to pick up his things. Even then it ... [read more]
Hot new chicks and teachers (1993)
Cousins Nick (Alex Dimitriades) and Con (Salvatore Coco) and their friends drive to their first day back at inner-city school Hartley High. Meanwhile, rookie teacher Christina Milano (Sarah Lambert), also on her way to school, farewells her parents and heeds ... [read more]
‘There’s something I want to ask you’ (2009)
Joe (Clive Owen) enters the bedroom of his eldest son Harry (George MacKay), who has recently arrived from the UK. Joe starts talking about his relationship with Harry’s mother (Joe’s first wife). They discuss the break-up, which Joe justifies as ... [read more]
The fire (2006)
At the end of the day, Frankie’s teacher (Renee Newman-Storen) apologises for not taking him on the excursion. Frankie (Antionne Forrest-Yarran) picks up the box of matches she leaves behind. On the way home from school, he sets fire to ... [read more]
‘Don’t be like your old man’ (2011)
As Daniel (Daniel Connors) walks back home from Linden’s place he sees his father (Michael Connors) sitting in the gutter at the edge of the footpath. His father questions Daniel about school and threatens him if he mucks up or ... [read more]
Meet the mite (2009)
Close-ups of healthy honeybees in action as well as bees infected with Varroa destructor precede a short cut-out stop motion-style digital animation detailing the arrival of the Varroa mite from Asia to Europe and across the globe. Dr Denis Anderson, ... [read more]
‘Police work is people’ (1993)
Maggie Doyle (Lisa McCune) and Wayne Patterson (Grant Bowler) arrive at the property of Old Man Doherty to follow up on some unpaid parking fines and find more than they bargained for in the form of a vicious german shepherd. ... [read more]
‘You’re starting to like this guy’ (1997)
Constable Dee Suzeraine (Jennifer Kent) shows Detective Tessa Vance (Lucy Bell) a digital enlargement of the gorilla mask that murder victim Trevor Parkin was wearing. Meanwhile Detective Steve Hayden (Peter Mochrie) has discovered where the gorilla suit was hired. Tessa ... [read more]
An unwelcome visitor (2007)
Chris (Richard Green) is enjoying a quiet moment alone with his guitar before the arrival of his lunch guests. He hears a car pull up, looks out the window and sees, to his alarm, that an uninvited visitor has arrived. ... [read more]
Movietone News titles (1945)
This clip is from the opening sequence for the Australian edition of Fox Movietone News, showing the laughing kookaburras. A superimposed graphic reads '20th Century Fox presents’ followed by 'Movietone News’ in block letters. The Movietone News graphic remains on ... [read more]
A pack of rabid dogs (2007)
On the eve of the semifinals, the Newtown Jets go up against St George. Newtown coach Jack Cooper (Matthew Johns) gives some last minute instructions before handing over to his captain, 'Grub’ Henderson (Matt Nable), whose message is blunt – ... [read more]
Kangaroo hunt (1931)
Kangaroos are hunted in the bush to be collected for museums and zoos. A kangaroo hide is presented to the camera. Kangaroos hop into a fenced enclosure and are trapped there. Two men force a hat on one reluctant kangaroo ... [read more]
‘Anybody here?’ (2003)
Steve (Gary Sweet) arrives home from the office and has trouble getting into his house. Finally entering to find the vestibule dark and quiet, he smiles to himself, thinking he’s about to encounter a surprise birthday party. But when he ... [read more]
Breaking the rules (1971)
Grant (Gary Bond) is full of remorse, nursing a bad hangover. Somehow, he has ended up staying with 'Doc’ Tydon (Donald Pleasence), who lives in a shack on the outskirts of town. The doctor taunts him about his failure the ... [read more]
Piano repair (1960)
In this silent clip, a man (Frank Straford) is playing the piano in his living room when a string breaks. He makes a telephone call and a piano tuner (John Straford) arrives and then inspects the broken string with a ... [read more]
Duck, cat, baby (1998)
Ronnie (Miranda Otto) has slept through another attack, during which her 11 Muscovy ducks have been mutilated. Ida (Brenda Blethyn) leaves for church in the nearby town. Maurice (Ray Barrett) recalls how they got married – when he thought she ... [read more]
Aya meets a man (1990)
At work in the Japanese restaurant, Aya (Eri Ishida) talks to the man with whom she will later have an affair. She tells him she has been in Australia for eight years and that it is good for her son ... [read more]
‘It tastes like pork’ (1927)
John Rex (George Fisher) has incited his fellow prisoners to a mass breakout from Port Arthur. They storm past the dogs that patrol the narrow isthmus at Eaglehawk Neck, where Rex splits off from the others. He has arranged a ... [read more]
This pig ain’t no Babe (1985)
Bertie (Anthony Richards) enrages a boar, which then escapes and chases him up a tree. Cranky Frank Phillips (Martin Vaughan) unwittingly distracts the boar and becomes its next target. He and his wife Shalagh Phillips (Carole Skinner) flee to the ... [read more]
