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The Stranger (1964)
A mysterious Stranger (Ron Haddrick) collapses on the doorstep of the Walsh family home. The opening titles for The Stranger feature a satellite dish searching the skies, strange particles moving in space and a moonscape. Inside the Walsh home, teenager ... [read more]
‘It was his idea’ (2003)
John Macumba and other interviewees talk about the establishment and early days of the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA). [read more]
In the lab (2011)
Lucy (Emily Browning) submits to a medical experiment involving a narrow tube being inserted down her throat. [read more]
‘Concentration, the key to success’ (1958)
This advertisement for road safety begins with a cricket match. As Keith Miller bats, the male narrator speaks about concentration as one of his keys to success, with his 'eyes front all the time, or you’re out’. This tip is ... [read more]
‘White man, black man be friends’ (1950)
Wally King (Chips Rafferty) and his stockmen ride to the waterhole on the land they have come to occupy at Bitter Springs. Tommy (Tommy Trinder) gets a shock as he takes a drink from the spring: the Aborigines are there ... [read more]
Meeting new friends (2002)
The brothers have flown to Melbourne with their lawyer Frank Malone (Robert Taylor). At a house by Port Phillip Bay, Frank outlines the job – they’re going to steal the bookies’s take from the Melbourne Cup. Dale (Guy Pearce) realises ... [read more]
‘Describe your life’ (1992)
The Doug Anthony All Stars (Tim Ferguson, Richard Fidler and Paul McDermott) are filling out the Shitsu Tonka census. They come to a section labelled ‘Describe your life’. [read more]
‘The horrible thought of being eaten alive’ (2004)
Ben Cropp introduces the subject of shark and crocodile attacks on humans, including a close shave of his own in 2004, as featured on Channel Seven’s current affairs program Today Tonight (1995–current). [read more]
The con and the shrink (1995)
Prison psychologist Louisa Correlli (Deborra-Lee Furness) meets convicted felon Kevin Jones (Hugh Jackman) for the first time and is concerned by his apparent inability to perform simple tasks. The damage seems to have been done by an unreported beating that ... [read more]
Two men, two boats, one woman (1989)
Australian naval officer John Ingram (Sam Neill) leaves his wife Rae (Nicole Kidman) in charge on their yacht Saracen, while he investigates the stricken schooner Orpheus. To his horror, the ship is full of body parts. As he rushes back, ... [read more]
‘A stumbling block in the path of progress’ (1981)
After a night in jail, retired professor B.C. Simmonds (Alexander Archdale) and his daughter Jessica (Liz Alexander) return to Angel Street, where demolitions are in progress. B.C. explains why he won’t leave. [read more]
The new boy in the school of hard knocks (1980)
Tasmanian star recruit Geoff Hayward (John Howard) arrives at the club to face strong resentment from the less well-paid players and the coach, Laurie Holden (Jack Thompson). As the season begins, the football media asks some tough questions. [read more]
‘The city of corruption’ (1976)
Father Marshall (Tom Keneally) arrives to prepare the boys for a three-day retreat, during which they must observe complete silence. Before they start, he delivers a terrifying sermon about death and damnation, and what the fires of hell will feel ... [read more]
Pack ice heartbreak (1933)
Frank Hurley captures the heartbreaking moment during Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition when the mast and rigging of the Endurance collapses as the ship is enclosed by two tonnes of pack ice. [read more]
‘I hate being bored’ (1996)
Kev (Ben Mendelsohn) complains to Mick (Jeremy Sims) that he hates being bored. Next day, Kev reports to the department of social security as Mick cases the bank they are planning to rob. An officious bank teller (David Wenham) tries ... [read more]
Flowers and veges galore (1967)
Shot during the 1960s in the Snowy Mountains, this is footage of quintessentially 1960s-style gardens, including rockeries, flowers and vegetables. [read more]
New girl (1985)
Buzz (Mitch Ambrose) checks out the new girl at the rink. His girlfriend Francine (Shanti Gudgeon) is jealous and calls Susan (Sherie Graham) a ‘daddy’s girl’. When Susan’s dad (Bruce Myles) arrives with a jumper for her, Buzz introduces himself ... [read more]
‘What do you really do, at work?’ (1990)
Noel (Dennis Coard) joins his brother Steve (Frankie J Holden) and family at the beach. Apprentice mechanic Gary (Ben Mendelsohn) asks Noel to explain his job in insurance. Gary wonders if he might be suited to such work. [read more]
‘My babies’ (2004)
Toma is both passionate about his eggplants and keen to show off his invention, an ingenious machine which helps with the picking. His wife works along side and afterwards it’s home to the barbie where both of them explain one ... [read more]
‘Interesting editing!’ (2001)
Ross (Alex Tsitsopoulos) needs to hand in his soccer film but most of the footage he has is the embarrassing material shot by Sophie (Gemma Bishop) after he tipped her out of her wheelchair. He turns the footage into a ... [read more]
