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The death of Bow-ra (c1988)

Badge (Alexander 'Mathew’ Jacobs) and Sam (Cameron Atkins), find that Bow-ra, the family’s milking cow has been badly injured in a storm. Her back is broken and Jessie (Mary Haire) cannot help her. Jessie has to shoot the cow to ... [read more]

Tracey, you’re a genius! (2001)

Tracey has created a life-like Shamus hologram but unfortunately it disintegrates when Shamus high fives it. Shamus is quite devastated until they discover that the explosion has brought about dozens of miniature Shamuses. [read more]

The eighth round (1916)

Les Darcy (who enters from the right of frame) and George Chip are in the final rounds of what was to be Darcy’s final bout. By this stage in the match, Darcy has the upper hand. The referee for the ... [read more]

D 2.51 (2006)

After a futile attempt to speak to the Department of Debt over the phone, Woodman sets out to see them in person. [read more]

Searching for Manganinnie’s people (1980)

Manganinnie (Mawuyul Yanthalawuy) searches for her tribe. Joanna (Anna Ralph) drops the fire stick in the ocean. [read more]

Creation story (1991)

An aerial view of Arnhem Land where artist David Malangi lives. Narrator Ernie Dingo introduces the cosmology encapsulated within Aboriginal creation stories before introducing us to Malangi and his family. [read more]

Conflict (1991)

This clip describes the conflict over mining, environment, and religion in Kakadu National Park. [read more]

Time machine test run (2007)

Dr Plonk (Nigel Lunghi) is accidentally transported 10,000 years into the past and captured by spear-wielding natives. Plonk pulls the alarm bell, but his mute assistant Paulus (Paul Brickwell) cannot hear it. Plonk narrowly escapes being burnt alive in his ... [read more]

A new centralised system (1966)

This clip talks about how the volume of mail the Australian Post Office is handling per year has resulted in the need for a new centralised mail exchange. It explains how the Redfern Mail Exchange will function as a centralised ... [read more]

A trip to the cinema (1941)

In a burst of colour, eight children of various ages happily stream out of a suburban house and pile (miraculously) into a car waiting outside. The film then cuts to the children getting out of the other side of the ... [read more]

The ‘30-second breakfast’ (c1943)

A daughter’s voice (Janice Reid) pleads with her mother (Queenie Ashton) to tell her a story about a lady kangaroo. Her mother obliges with a story which is accompanied by cartoons of Lady Kangaroo and her family. The difficulty of ... [read more]

‘Most children adore Vegemite’ (c1948)

As young mothers take their children to baby health centres, clinics and day nurseries around the country, a male voice-over outlines the good work that these places are doing for young Australians. In the waiting room of a baby health ... [read more]

The housing problem in Victoria (1949)

An aerial shot of high density inner city housing is followed by a street level shot of children playing outside in the alleys. A young couple – Ted and Mary – walk towards their family home. Inside, the mother serves ... [read more]

Rehabilitation and re-education (c1948)

This clip begins with a montage of people on the streets of postwar Japan. The narrator explains that the American Allied occupation forces are transforming Japan from a ‘military dictatorship’ into a democracy. The next sequence is about re-education and ... [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]

‘You’ve got yourself a man’ (c1970)

This clip shows three different ads from the late 1960s or early 1970s which feature the tagline 'when you get Roses, you’ve got yourself a man’. In the first ad, two young women sit in a train carriage. One (played ... [read more]

The job interview (2011)

Lucy (Emily Browning) arrives for an interview with Clara (Rachael Blake) in reply to the job advertisement she saw in the student newspaper. The job is involves being a lingerie waitress but there is ‘room for promotion’, according to Clara. ... [read more]

A 50-tonne explosion (1963)

Final checks are carried out on all instrumentation and the countdown begins. The explosion is shown, then the destruction of the forest is replayed in slow motion and from a number of different camera angles. [read more]

‘I don’t want to talk about it’ (1996)

The girl (Chloe Ferguson) listens as her parents argue in the next room. Kate, a babysitter (Kate Greetham), arrives as the parents are about to go to counselling. Kate asks the silent child if she has gone mad. Later, the ... [read more]

The first Victorian expedition (1984)

The expedition of Burke (played here by Martin Shaw) and Wills (John Bell) is made ready to leave from Royal Park in Melbourne with all the pomp and hullabaloo befitting those wild gold rush days of the 1860s. They set ... [read more]

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