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The times are changing (1989)
Monnie (Justine Clarke) is Guinea’s (Rebecca Gibney) younger sister. She works in a factory sewing parachutes for the war effort. She’s becoming independent but her mother (Gillian Jones), grief stricken with the loss of her favourite son, has strong and ... [read more]
The new Felicity (1978)
Felicity’s rebellion is now in full swing. She has taken to wearing leathers and breaking into other people’s houses. After a night in Centennial Park, she discovers an old naked man lying near death in a derelict house. In him, ... [read more]
‘I am Australia’ (1983)
Over a campfire near his home in Broken Hill, German migrant Werner Hollmayer explains to filmmaker Juergen Corleis his feelings for his adopted country and how migrating here has changed him. [read more]
Making a go of it (1979)
There’s a whole mob of Prices – which is just as well, as it takes lots of hard labour to work a cattle station. [read more]
Seasons in the gardens (1967)
The clip highlights the way in which a European-style garden, very viably established in the Snowy Mountains, accentuates the seasons. [read more]
Settlers attacked (1935)
Morrison (Franklyn Bennett) has married Jane Judd (Margot Rhys) because of a promise he made before he met Biddy O’Shea. Biddy has also married, and both women have had a baby. When Aborigines attack and kill her family, the fatally ... [read more]
First kiss (1985)
Susan (Sherie Graham) goes to the movies, shopping and hanging out in the city with Buzz (Mitch Ambrose) and the gang. In the cinema, Buzz makes a pass but Susan seems oblivious, unlike the jealous Francine (Shanti Gudgeon). Susan is ... [read more]
‘My precious bit of fluff’ (1919)
Bill (Arthur Tauchert) and Doreen (Lottie Lyell) celebrate their marriage with a 'beano’ at her mother’s house. Ginger Mick (Gilbert Emery) gives a tipsy speech, before the young couple depart in a handsome cab, for the train. [read more]
Good mates (2005)
Craig Hamilton suffered a breakdown in 2000. He needed a good mate to talk to about the possibility of going public with his story. He found that friend in Paul Harrigan, the great Newcastle football legend. [read more]
I’m the master! (1995)
The genies (Rhys Muldoon) and Baz (Glenn Meldrum) show Penelope (Alexandra Milman) that she is not really in control of them despite being their master. She orders that her room be cleaned of 'its useless mess and rubbish’ and whoosh ... [read more]
‘Your parents are legends …’ (2006)
The talent show is in full swing as Taylor (Marny Kennedy) waits anxiously for Hector (Nicolas Dunn) to arrive with the DNA results. Unfortunately it doesn’t work out quite the way she imagined and her parent’s burlesque show ‘Undies ... [read more]
‘A special place’ (2004)
Spike Milligan’s daughters describe the 'fairy letters’ – tiny letters in miniscule handwriting – their father used to make for them as children and leave around the house for them to find. As they talk about the magical world he ... [read more]
The journey from Alice Springs begins (1930)
A title card announces the beginning of a journey from Alice Springs. Pans across the surrounding landscape set the scene. A camel train of around eight camels passes by the camera. A second title card explains that difficulties are ‘willingly ... [read more]
Mail officers (1989)
This clip shows mail officers in a range of mail-sorting work at mail exchanges and mail centres. [read more]
‘You don’t track boys down, you lure them!’ (2004)
Saskia (Hannah Greenwood) bullies geeky young Gerald Semple (Damian Neate) into helping her find Max Hammer (Cameron Nugent) on the internet. To enter the Webweave chat room she has to create an avatar. When she aggressively enters the chat room ... [read more]
A ‘stroke of evil genius’ (1999)
Elgar (Neri Marg Downey) flatters the evil Galiel (Michael Carmen) as she listens to his planning. As his crystal loses its power, he is rapidly weakening and must find the other three crystals as soon as possible. He decides to ... [read more]
Play the game – floating and sinking (2002)
Host Sam (Angela Kelly) explores floating and sinking with parrot Muppet Portia, testing various objects in a basin of water. It is from the 'Play the game’ segment, designed to encourage parents to try some of these activities with their ... [read more]
‘I sit next to Toby!’ (2003)
Mr Tesslar (Robert van Mackelenberg) introduces his science class to his newest piece of equipment, the MFE machine. Garth (Brook Sykes), the school bully, is totally bored by the whole thing until new girl Dina (Saskia Burmeister) upsets Elizabeth ... [read more]
A question of teeth (1987)
Dola Darcy (Kaarin Fairfax) has offered her mother (Anne Phelan) the money to have her teeth done, as part of a campaign to help her look attractive so she can keep her husband from having affairs with other women. Dola ... [read more]
An ill wind (1985)
Two US weathermen were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation when the US exploded a test hydrogen bomb in the Marshall Islands in 1954. Lamont Noley believes their exposure was the result of insufficient knowledge and care. Don Baker believes ... [read more]
