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Henry Warburton arrives (1994)

Tegwyn (Amanda Douge) asks her mother, Alice (Lisa Harrow), why her paralysed father, Sam (Mark Fairall), has been brought home. Ort (Jamie Croft) answers a knock at the door. It is Henry Warburton (Peter Coyote), who says he has come ... [read more]

The quiz (1963)

Bob and Dolly Dyer welcome the audience and introduce the first contestants. Dentist Raleigh Matthews is defending his win and prizes from the previous week’s show. He is up against teacher Francis Shipton. Dyer asks a series of questions which ... [read more]

Burying the dead (1977)

After the rape and murder of one of their new 'tribe’, the women paint their bodies in grief and perform burial rites. [read more]

Montclare, 1950 (1982)

Linda Stevens (Jacki Kerin) reads her mother’s diary. In 1950 Montclare was converted into a retirement home. [read more]

The Darcy family (1981)

The Darcys are an unusual family. They are extremely wealthy and yet they live the tough and hard-working life of real outback battlers. Nevertheless, the family makes light of chores and there’s a real warmth between all of them. [read more]

The Aboriginal struggle (1972)

Gary Foley talks about white control of the Black movement accompanied by images of the Sydney Black Moratorium march to the Sydney Town Hall on 14 July 1972. [read more]

‘The wife ship’ (1935)

The tiny settlement at Sydney Cove comes alive with news of a ship bringing single women to the colony. James Morrison (Franklyn Bennett) incurs the wrath of pretty young Biddy O’Shea (Peggy Maguire) when he tries to ‘carry her bundle’. ... [read more]

The couple (1992)

Roger and Jill Pascoe have been invited to give a guest lecture at the local drama school by their friend and actor (Linden Wilkinson) who teaches there. The couple begin with what appears to be an old routine, almost like ... [read more]

On the tracks (c1940)

The Spirit of Progress train is filmed from different angles as it passes the camera, followed by a tracking shot of the train tracks taken from on board the train. The next section is a dramatised sequence which shows a ... [read more]

Arriving in town (2007)

Jason (Gregory Cross) arrives in town. His Pop (Kelton Pell) is there to greet him and show him around, reminiscing, but Jason is not easily impressed. [read more]

‘Across the river’ (1950)

A montage of brick houses and apartments gives way to an intertitle which introduces the contrasting living conditions of workers who live ‘across the river’. A wide shot of an industrial cityscape cuts to a shot of a street, which ... [read more]

Crossing the threshold (2007)

The daytrippers are inside the entrance to the spectacular Kingston Gorge and preparing to return to base when Everett (Robert Taylor) thinks he sees a flare in the distance, ahead of them through the gorge. The others look and see ... [read more]

Challenging the demon (2007)

Anmatjere elders Patsy and Jane Briscoe narrate the story of the demon Bungalung while two boys act it out. A boy uses traditional weapons to fight and defeat the demon Bungalung. [read more]

The circus parade (c1943)

The members of Wirth’s Circus and Zoo parade down the main street as a large crowd looks on. The parade includes elephants, clowns, performers on horseback and caged animals. In another shot, Shetland ponies are led by boys over a ... [read more]

The small fortress (1985)

This clip describes the history of the Terezin concentration camp, or Theresienstadt as the Germans called it, and what might have happened to the internees. There is a map of Theresienstadt that shows the location of the large and small ... [read more]

The early years (1964)

Damien Parer was the youngest child of a Spanish-born publican father and an Irish mother. He followed the faith of his parents and grew up a deeply religious Catholic. His faith never wavered throughout his life and his fascination for ... [read more]

Constructing the expressway (1968)

Aerial shots of section one of the expressway show work completed by mid-1964, a year into construction of the Sydney-Newcastle expressway. A map illustrates the first two sections of the expressway including the interchange at Mount White. The Department of ... [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]

‘Now I understand why you work in this place’ (1982)

Medical student Paul Armstrong (Simon Burke) discovers Dr Eric Linden (Chris Haywood) is gay. A religious zealot (Mark Minchinton) creates a disturbance in Dr Linden’s office. [read more]

Gaudí the perfectionist (1974)

Spanish architect Antonio Gaudí oversaw the whole of his artistic work – building design, construction and interior furnishings. Examples of Gaudí's buildings and interiors are shown, including some great pieces of his lesser known furnishings and furniture. The narrator describes ... [read more]

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