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Duke of Edinburgh attends (1956)

The Duke of Edinburgh arrives outside one of the Olympic venues and is greeted by Prime Minister Robert Menzies. The beginning of the marathon is shown, as well as runners finishing the mile race in slow motion. Part of a ... [read more]

An invitation (2006)

Rolf de Heer talks about being invited by David Gulpilil to his country to make Ten Canoes (2006). Images of men stripping bark from a tree to make a canoe will eventually be incorporated in the film. [read more]

The service begins (1965)

This clip is from a black-and-white live broadcast of a Catholic church service in the Mary Magdalene Roman Catholic Church in Rose Bay. The cantor begins a hymn and the congregation join in as the choirboys and the clergy arrive ... [read more]

‘Don’t you be frightened of anything’ (1983)

Aunt Vanessa has paid Logan (John Hargreaves) to come to Sydney to see his son, whom he has never met. Logan is overcome with emotion as he talks to the boy, PS (Nicholas Gledhill). The boy is now living most ... [read more]

The Italian lesson (1972)

Peter (John Derum) wants to learn Italian. He puts a record of 'Italian Made Easy’ on the turntable. The voice on the recording accuses him, in Italian, of having an extramarital affair with Beryl, 'Beryla’, while on the other side ... [read more]

The ruined Saturday (1991)

Arthur (Garry McDonald) wants to spend a quiet Saturday morning at home reading the paper while he drinks a cup of tea. Suddenly there’s a knock on the door and Maggie is accused of stealing a clock from the house ... [read more]

The trial begins (1988)

The trial of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain (Meryl Streep and Sam Neill) begins at a court in Darwin. Lindy’s pregnancy is the source of much media attention. Judge Muirhead (Charles Tingwell) instructs the jury not to be swayed by rumour ... [read more]

The journey begins (1991)

In the middle of the night, Beatrice (Anne Louise Lambert) readies herself physically and emotionally for her and Maeve’s journey to the underworld. She remembers the childhood origins of her ‘yearning to know’ and begins the process of trying to ... [read more]

‘The acoustics are pretty good’ (1989)

Ted Egan introduces us to Redbank Gorge in the Northern Territory. [read more]

The Straford family (1927)

This silent 9.5mm home movie footage is of the Straford family, filmed mostly by Vivien Straford in the late 1920s. [read more]

The secret garden (2005)

Our chance to see in close-up this extraordinary living fossil, a survivor from the Jurassic period. And it’s hidden deep in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. [read more]

The disappearing Dakota (1961)

As spring brings warmer temperatures, preparations begin for the summer exploration season. The Royal Australian Air Force Dakota is made ready for flights into the interior, in support of a ground team travelling in a ‘tractor train’. The Dakota ferries ... [read more]

The first time (1999)

Speedy McGinness tells us about his mother, and how he wishes to return her remains to Gurindji land – the place of her birth. [read more]

The Henderson kids (1985)

The title sequence is followed by a recap of the first episode, The Crash, in which Alice Henderson (Diane Craig) holds firm against an approach by Mr Wheeler (Peter Whitford) to buy the family property at Haven Bay. The fact ... [read more]

‘The front office doesn’t believe in promises’ (1980)

After the transfer of prisoners in the middle of the night, Mr Norton (Max Phipps) comes to apologise to Jackson (Bryan Brown) for the breaking of the deal. Norton talks about the fear he felt as a young prison officer, ... [read more]

Always the light (1994)

Artist Jeffrey Smart takes the audience on a whimsical visit to an industrial landscape where he set a painting featuring bicycle riders. Smart asks the film’s director where he would put the figure of Smart in the painting. Smart also ... [read more]

The pilgrims’ progress (2006)

This is the pretitle sequence in which the protagonists are sketched for us and the program’s theme established. There’s a young and adventurous backpacker, a soldier and his father and a family who are following the trail of a relative ... [read more]

The ancestors coming (2006)

The narrator (David Gulpilil) introduces his ancestors, as they walk into the bush on a hunting trip. Minygululu (Peter Minygululu) leads the column, followed by his younger brother Dayindi (Jamie Gulpilil). Djigirr (Peter Djigirr) complains about being at the back ... [read more]

The travelling show (2001)

A boxing troupe sets up the tent for their travelling show. Former tent boxers talk about the limited opportunities available to young Indigenous men in Moree in the early 1960s and why they took up the tent-boxing life. Interviews are ... [read more]

First shipment of Red Cross supplies to Egypt (c1917)

This Australasian Gazette newsreel from approximately 1917 shows the first shipment of Red Cross supplies leaving Federal Government House, Melbourne for soldiers in Egypt. Men form a chain to transport boxes of supplies down stairs and load them onto a ... [read more]

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