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Family outing to the beach (c1932)

This brief home movie clip, all shot hand-held by the Archibald family, captures a group of women dressing a toddler for beach play on what looks like Newport Beach, Sydney in the early 1930s. [read more]

A sermon from the pulpit (1965)

The preacher offers an interpretation of one of the parables from the Bible. 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, Sydney. [read more]

On board the ship (c1915)

This clip shows the on board activities of some of the troops about to depart Sydney to fight in the First World War. It begins with many of them relaxing on deck. Another group of men participate in a coordinated ... [read more]

Restoring the race horse (2006)

Thoroughbred horses are prone to tendon injuries that can cut short the racing career of a champion, or even force the death of the animal. Even if the tendon can be healed, it can never return to its full strength ... [read more]

Living and working on the Snowy (1957)

A woman emerges from one of the Snowy Mountain huts to fetch some firewood. Her two children, rugged up against the cold, leave the hut and ski down the hill past the other huts in the camp. Down at ... [read more]

On the salt lake (2009)

Having evaded the police, Kev (Hugo Weaving) and Chook (Tom Russell) are driving across Lake Gairdner, a huge salt lake, in a stolen four-wheel drive. Kev has finally told the boy why they’re on the run. Chook sits for a ... [read more]

The root of all evil (2000)

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (Indian Cricket Board) controls the millions of dollars generated from the game of cricket. If the game were to be tainted through accusations of match fixing then the extraordinary amounts of money ... [read more]

The naked meat man (1974)

Kev Kavanagh is on a fast learning curve. He’s picked up new ideas from swinging London where they employ butcher’s assistants to serve the customers stark naked, just like the meat they’re offering over the counter, as he logically points ... [read more]

Menzies addresses the troops, Palestine (1941)

This clip from a Menzies home movie begins with the Prime Minister’s visit to one of the field hospitals in the Middle East during his trip to meet the troops in 1941. We see nurses, medical staff and injured troops ... [read more]

You become what you eat (1998)

Little Kevin (voiced by Philip Joseph) is busy licking his snotty face at the supermarket. He hides from his mother, opens a packet of lollies off the shelf and gobbles them greedily. An old lady trips over the lollies he’s ... [read more]

The Toecutter exacts revenge (1979)

Family friend May Swaisey (Sheila Florance) helps Max’s wife Jessie (Joanne Samuel) and child (Brendan Heath) to escape the Toecutter (Hugh Keays-Byrne) and his gang, but they soon catch up. The scene uses iconic imagery – madonna and child, old ... [read more]

The Hun’s Xmas wail (1915)

This clip begins with the Cartoons of the Moment title card featuring a kangaroo and lion. Cartoonist Harry Julius is shown sketching at his notepad against an ocean background. A headline from the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger newspaper reads ‘Germany is ... [read more]

The seventh wish lasts forever (1990)

Prince Wilton (Justin Rosniak) is desperate to get rid of the last wish. CW wishes for everyone to like him and he’s turned into a baby. Katie (Ebony Ricketson) now adores him but Wilton can’t change him back because the ... [read more]

The penalty for rape (1977)

When a guard (Ralph Cotterill) tries to rape her maid Meg (Nell Campbell), Miss Harrington (Jeune Pritchard) picks up a gun and fires. The convict women escape into the bush. [read more]

The rich get richer (1983)

In 1983 Australia’s largest overseas aid project is centred on the Philippines. It’s called PADAP and it’s a shared project between Australian technological know-how and the Philippine Government. The aid money is being spent on roadworks in one particular ... [read more]

The Queens of King’s Canyon (1994)

Tick/Mitzi (Hugo Weaving) attempts to become more ‘masculine’ in the eyes of his son Benji (Mark Holmes), but the boy reassures his father that he accepts him as he is. Mitzi then joins Felicia (Guy Pearce) and Bernadette (Terence Stamp) ... [read more]

The Kookaburra Springs school choir (1972)

Stanley Evans (Harry Secombe) conducts the Kookaburra Springs school choir at a prestigious competition in Sydney. Wished good luck by competition official Lord Pearson (Jeff Ashby), Stanley and Shirley Marshall (Maggie Fitzgibbon) discover Stevie Cassidy (Dennis Jordan) has switched the ... [read more]

‘Will the storms ever end?’ (1996)

A hand fumbles for a box of matches on the floor of a car, lost amongst other junk. Shane Francis (David Ngoombujarra) one hand on the steering wheel, eyes fixed on the road, strikes the match with his freed hand. ... [read more]

Work, home and paying the rent (1939)

A family prepares for the start of the day. While the woman (Florence McCracken) makes breakfast, her husband (Eddie Allison) shaves in the bathroom. He comes to the kitchen for breakfast and his wife seats their young son at the ... [read more]

The spare parts racket (2006)

Cars are not only stolen to be shipped to other countries, they’re also stolen to be stripped for spare parts. The problem for the police and prosecutors is that most car parts are not marked with the vehicle’s identification number. [read more]

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