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On the run (2000)

Cabs crawl along the city street, on the lookout for two Aboriginal youths suspected of bashing a fellow taxi driver. Lance (Gavin Ritchie) and Murray (Shane O’Mara) run up an alley way and scale a fence to get away from ... [read more]

Boodgie (2002)

The two cousins Tim (Russell Page) and Scott (Laurence Clifford) are sitting on a bench and catching up after having not seen each other for quite a while. Tim begins to tell the story of when his dog Waynee boodgied ... [read more]

This is our place (1992)

The skinheads rush to their local pub to confront some young Vietnamese men playing pool. Gabe (Jacqueline McKenzie), Jacqui (Janei Anderson) and Bubs (James McKenna) arrive late, having been left behind. Gabe tries to stop Hando from hurting the younger ... [read more]

Chut’s revenge (1936)

Shorty McGee (Harry Abdy) has punished his prize attraction, Chut the boxing kangaroo, by denying him water for two days. In the ring, Chut’s thirst and his hatred for the whip-wielding McGee boil over. Chut attacks the drunken McGee, inflicting ... [read more]

‘Nothing to call our own’ (1977)

Jack and Gary, two drifters in a stolen car, have picked up a young woman, Anna (Julie McGregor) at an outback service station. At Gary’s home reserve, Anna talks to an Aboriginal woman (Essie Coffey) about the causes of Aboriginal ... [read more]

‘God, I love this country’ (1996)

As the rest of the community is in mourning for the young man who hanged himself, Tony (Aaron Pedersen) has been watching television at the schoolteacher’s house. He is having an affair with Kate, wife of the teacher Les (Lewis ... [read more]

Fairy story comes true (c1935)

This black-and-white Rinso soap powder cinema advertisement from 1935 shows two young girls dressed in fairy costumes dancing in a lounge room. When they finish, one asks her mother to tell them a story. The mother tells a story about ... [read more]

Message (1988)

Mrs Millie Boyd tells the story over re-enactment. She describes how the people sent for Leo, a famous warrior in his time, who trained with his two dogs. Leo’s wife would sing a special song that helped him in battle. ... [read more]

Middle harbour scenery and canoeing (1927)

This clip from a silent black-and-white cinema advertisement for Castlecrag Estate shows people alighting from a car and walking through the bush at Sylvan Glades to the foreshore of Middle Harbour. Two rowboats and a small motorboat are shown floating ... [read more]

‘Sarong Body Magic’ (1968)

A woman’s voice-over accompanies a figure seen from the waist down wearing a Berlei ‘Sarong Body Magic’ girdle. Two versions of the girdle – a pant and panty girdle – are shown on the figures. As the girdle adjusts to ... [read more]

‘Horses don’t like salads’ (1936)

Tommy (Frank Leighton) refuses offers of help from his fiancé Joan (Helen Twelvetrees) and his mother (Nellie Ferguson), both of whom know more about horses than he does. He decides to feed Stormalong, his new thoroughbred, on spinach and celery, ... [read more]

Fair game (1940)

Three Australian cavalrymen explain the game of two-up to some Egyptian men, in a crowded Cairo street. Red Gallagher (Grant Taylor) and his mates Jim (Chips Rafferty) and Larry (Pat Twohill) ride their winnings – three donkeys – into a ... [read more]

Port Augusta (c1917)

A point-of-view shot from the front of a train as it travels along a section of new track and makes its way into Port Augusta. It passes through a depot and Tassie Street station, a new station being erected at ... [read more]

Prominent film men say ‘Au Revoir’ (c1926)

Beginning with an intertitle to give the context, this newsreel segment proceeds to show WA Gibson and Norman Dawn boarding a ship bound for Tasmania. A second intertitle explains their purpose in visiting locations for the film For the Term ... [read more]

The honeymooners return (1929)

This clip is part two in a three-part, serialised Bushells tea cinema advertisement. It shows the newly-married couple returning from their honeymoon on a cruise ship, proving that the tea reading in part one has come true. As they enter ... [read more]

White baby fly out, black baby fly in (1955)

The infant Jedda, snuggled in a coolomon, is carried into the squatters’ kitchen. Two Aboriginal women fuss over the infant, and are the ones who name her Jedda, because she’s like a 'wild Jedda bird’. The mistress of the house ... [read more]

Adapting to the climate (1949)

A group of friends relax and keep cool under the shade of a gum tree in their garden. Two of them flip through an old photo album that contains photographs of the Australian snowfields and the snow gum – a ... [read more]

‘I’m going to Nashville’ (1997)

Ralph (Matt Day) attempts to fix the car after driving through the night with Boyd (Richard Roxburgh) and Patsy (Miranda Otto), two big-city types in a rush to get to Sydney. Boyd’s impatience causes an injury to Ralph’s hand. He ... [read more]

‘A nut disguised as a screw’ (1974)

Bill (Robert McDarra) and inmate Richard (T. Richard Moir) plant a story with another prisoner that one of the patients has a knife and will attack Mr Cornish (Bill Hunter). Cornish searches the two Aboriginal inmates (Bob Maza and Zac ... [read more]

Start a cycle (1975)

Australian-born Hollywood studio executive Al Daff says film producers need to find scripts that will succeed with an audience in two years time. He discusses the popularity of disaster movies at that time (the Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno era) and ... [read more]

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