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The women are running the show (1990)
Bill (Denis Moore) and Michael (Frank Whitten) are driving to the police station to pick up the teenagers. The police found them in a car that the household earlier reported missing. Out of ear shot of the women for the ... [read more]
Changeover at Mawson, 1960 (1961)
Work begins as soon as the ship Thala Dan arrives at Mawson Station, early in 1960. A total of 33 men are to spend a year in Antarctica at Australia’s first two bases, Davis and Mawson. At Mawson, they begin ... [read more]
The adventures of HMAS Wyatt Earp (1949)
As the HMAS Wyatt Earp sets off for the Antarctic coast from Melbourne in late 1947, the senior scientific officer Phillip Law begins work with his colleague, the distinguished meteorologist, Dr Fritz Loewe. The little ship enters the Roaring ... [read more]
The popular sport of surfboarding (1925)
This is a segment from the newsreel The Spectator Magazine. Three surfboard riders take off on a full wave at the north end of Bondi Beach, riding large Hawaiian-style longboards. They are shown from the side, then filmed from the ... [read more]
‘Full as a goog’ (1960)
Ida sends Jean Halstead (Dina Merrill) to town to fetch Bluey Brown from the pub. Bluey’s wife is in labour and Paddy (Robert Mitchum) is under strict instructions to keep him sober. Jean finds Bluey dead drunk in a corner ... [read more]
The Metropolitan Fire Brigade (1909)
A horsedrawn fire brigade unit drives along King William Street in Adelaide, watched by people from the sides of the street. The camera follows events from a fixed position at one side of the road. The vehicle with the extendable ... [read more]
Holden’s resale value (c1958)
A Holden customer shakes hands with his dealer and drives out of the Holden dealership. The voice-over narration explains Holden’s high resale value over an image of the newspaper classifieds. The narrator – a GMH representative standing ... [read more]
Isolation and attitudes (1989)
Miyuki Linsdell recounts travelling to Geelong from Melbourne in the late 1950s shortly after her arrival in Australia just to hear Japanese sailors speaking her native language. She is framed in close-up and speaks to the camera in Japanese. A ... [read more]
‘More than just transportation’ (1968)
This advertisement for the Holden Monaro HK begins on the racetrack amongst sleek sports cars, champion drivers (including Norm Beechey) and adoring female fans. A sequence of still images of foreign sports cars and sophisticated young consumers enjoying leisure activities ... [read more]
Laying sewer pipes (c1922)
The Board of Works digs up ground in Melbourne’s northern suburbs to lay sewerage pipes. A large section of pipe is lowered into a trench beside railway tracks. Men above ground watch the pipe lowered by crane as workers in ... [read more]
Drunk as a lord (1937)
Lord Blaydon (Cecil Kellaway) has taken up residence in his English country estate. Lady Blaydon (Nellie Ferguson) and their daughter Patricia (Shirley Ann Richards) have adapted well to the new surroundings, but his Lordship finds it hard to cope with ... [read more]
Cecil de Milo (1939)
Mrs Chedworth (Rita Pauncefort) has chosen a new house befitting the social status to which she aspires – with statues and grand windows through which the neighbours can see her parties. Mr Chedworth (Cecil Kellaway) is disturbed at the speed ... [read more]
Interplanetary reconnaissance (1956)
A man (Kerry Beckwith) drafts a letter in response to reports about the presence of small rockets – ‘interplanetary reconnaissance cameras’ – on earth. After hearing a noise, he goes outside to see a rocket has landed in his backyard. ... [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]
Abigail is transported back (1985)
When Abigail Kirk (Imogen Annesley) touches ‘the little fairy girl’, Beatie Bow (Mouche Phillips), it sets off a reaction that sends them both back in time 100 years. With Beatie the only link to her former life, Abigail chases after ... [read more]
‘I’m not keen on girls’ (1968)
A confused and lost Clancy (Liza Goddard) wanders through the bush, followed by a group of Aboriginal men (members of the Aboriginal Theatre from Yirrkala, Arnhem Land) with uncertain intent. Meanwhile Mark Hammond (Ken James) confesses to helicopter pilot Jerry ... [read more]
River of silk (2002)
Anna Yen in voice-over explains that she went to Hong Kong to ask grandmother about her own mother but grandmother claimed to be too busy when her children were growing up. Yen asks her to tell stories about herself instead. ... [read more]
Surviving an accident (1995)
Car drivers describe what they gained and what they lost from their car accident. [read more]
‘Wealthy on the inside’ (1991)
A woman describes the breakdown of her marriage after their newly built 'dream home’ was condemned due to faulty construction. Her husband could not survive emotionally without his wealth security blanket. She says quality of life is more important than ... [read more]
‘What did you say?’ (2001)
Upset by a patient, psychiatrist Dr Valerie Somers (Barbara Hershey) attacks a stranger in the street, imagining she heard a remark. The stranger, Pete O’May (Glenn Robbins) seeks refuge in a pub, where he meets Leon Zat (Anthony LaPaglia). [read more]
