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Imperial Tractors stock (1937)
This clip from a silent black-and-white Imperial Tractors cinema advertisement shows a portion of the tractor stock at the AH McDonald & Co Imperial Tractors warehouse. [read more]
Lakeside (1970)
With two more races to go and two wins under his belt, Norm Beechey must win this race to clinch the title. A crash early on in the race doesn’t deter the rest of the field. The Shell team take ... [read more]
Fireside rant (2004)
John Safran delivers a monologue on violent imagery in Catholic churches. [read more]
Filling Australian content quotas (1995)
The host of talk show Talking Shit (Francis Greenslade) and guest Brian (Kym Gyngell) attempt to fill Channel Ten’s Australian content quota requirements. [read more]
Chooks and hypnosis (1992)
Dad (Richard Moir) tries to impress Miss James (Robyn Gibbes) with his pet chook Russell. Linda (Joelene Crnogorac) hypnotises the chook and then she hypnotises Pete (Ben Thomas) to act like a chook every time he hears the word ‘now’. ... [read more]
Looking for a tooth in a sewerage farm (1989)
Scared by the ghost, Pete (Sam Vandenberg), has dropped his mouth plate with his false tooth down the toilet. Determined to get it back, he goes with Linda (Tamsin West) and Bronson (Rodney McLennan) to the sewerage farm. [read more]
Down the drain (2005)
This is the opening sequence, introducing the real-world characters Mary Jane and Stanley Staines and their crazy, imaginative mutant friends and monster foes from the drain – a perilous and fascinating world that they enter through a portal in the ... [read more]
Torres Strait Islands sequence (1921)
This sequence shows dance performances by men, women and children, a large spinning toy game, string figure designs on Murray Island and a model boat regatta on Coconut Island. [read more]
‘Where you going?’ (1957)
Macauley (Peter Finch) tries to sneak away from the Sweeney’s guesthouse, after Buster (Dana Wilson) has gone to sleep, but she’s too wise for that. She demands to go with him. He tells her to stay with Bella and Luke ... [read more]
‘I’m getting out of everything’ (1981)
Lou (Judy Davis) has kicked heroin and moved into the room that her friend Lisa rented before her death. She listens to a song that Lisa recorded as a demo. That night she goes to see Pete (Baz Luhrmann) who ... [read more]
Djaambi (2000)
Mitch (Peter Docker) and Harry (David Ngoombujarra) sit beneath the cover of a tree partly concealed by foliage. They are in the jungle of Papua New Guinea. They talk about raising money for Thomas’ (Glenn Shea) widow. Both men slowly ... [read more]
Village life in Fiji (1959)
As cousins Jale and Adriu break open coconuts in their village, they talk about what life in Suva might be like. While Jale is interested in the girls, Adriu says he’ll be too busy to worry about that – he’s ... [read more]
‘Look at the bastards’ (1987)
Tas (John Walton) and his three comrades watch with disdain as the new British commander, General Allenby (Anthony Hawkins), inspects the Light Horse camp. The soldiers see typical ‘Pommy brass’, but Allenby is different. As he inspects the horses, Lieutenant-Colonel ... [read more]
A society wedding (c1914)
This clip begins with the arrival of guests at a wedding. The camera films from a static position at the entrance of the church as they get out of their cars and walk towards the church. The guests are followed ... [read more]
Women join the war effort (1943)
Gwennie (Muriel Steinbeck) is just one of the thousands of women who have joined the war effort – she works in a munitions factory putting trinitrotoluene, or TNT, into shells. She explains that in the last war women 'couldn’t ... [read more]
Letters from Holden drivers (c1956)
A General Motors Holden representative directly addresses the viewer. He describes the broad range of Holden owners throughout Australia, accompanied by footage of a Holden vehicle driving through a suburban street. He uses a blackboard to illustrate that Holden’s 'proved ... [read more]
Range of products (c1960)
In a suburban street, a woman driving a Holden pulls up to do her Saturday morning shopping. Other GMH cars, including a Vauxhall, Chevrolet and Pontiac, are shown. The woman enters a showroom to look at read more]
‘I don’t trust you’ (1997)
Nikki (Frances O’Connor) and Al (Matt Day) are driving across the desert in a four-wheel drive they’ve stolen, having just driven away from a petrol station where Al pulled a knife on a truck driver who’d earlier tried to force ... [read more]
Cliffhanger (1918)
Jack (Snowy Baker) has pursued the German spies to the secret beach from which they will rendezvous with a German ship. Master villain Brasels (John Faulkner) has kidnapped Jack’s girl Myee (Lily Molloy) and tied her to a rock, where ... [read more]
The lady in question (1981)
At the dating agency, Peter (Norman Kaye) is 'introduced’ by proxy to a prospective partner, a young woman called Patricia. He fears he’s too old but the consultant says she needs a mature man. Peter has to pay an extra ... [read more]
