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‘The playgrounds of laughing children’ (1931)
This clip begins along the banks of the Yarra River in Melbourne followed by a view of the Princes Bridge. The next tracking shot enters Melbourne’s Botanical Gardens and shows people enjoying the lakes, ponds and park areas. The clip ... [read more]
Aboriginal people and the dingo (1997)
A scientist takes Rob Bredl to remote Aboriginal cave paintings that depict the closeness of the dingo to humans. [read more]
All in a day’s work (1983)
Provisionary Constable Webber (Simon Burke) is on patrol with his more senior sergeant (Bill Hunter). When an alarm sounds at a local furrier, they’re sent to investigate. The rookie Constable is sent to check the back entrance while Sergeant O’Rourke ... [read more]
Designing for the law (2000)
The Commonwealth Law Courts in Melbourne, Australia were designed by the architect Paul Katsieris. As he walks from the outside to the inside of this building he explains the design elements. [read more]
‘Reinstate the linesmen: give the sack to Joh’ (1987)
A Brisbane-wide meeting of union delegates and members agree to continue the strike. Electrical Trades Union (ETU) members have been sacked by the government and want 'scab’ contractors to stop work. Police arrest picketers. [read more]
Cleaning up the land (1997)
An elder speaks about the effects of tourism, and the responsibility of cleaning up the land. [read more]
Sound of the nineties (1989)
This is the opening sequence, with the band playing one of their hit songs, ‘Nobody tells me what to do’, before moving into the story, with Jenny (Rebecca Blomberg) and Pugwall (Jason Torrens) in the school grounds. [read more]
The first phase of building (1954)
The Dutch construction company Werkspoor Engineering Works is contracted to erect the distillation plant. The camera pans across the worksite and up to the top of one construction where both the Dutch and Australian flags are secured. As the ... [read more]
‘Just the way it is’ (2007)
The Anderson and Parker families go into the town for the day, for much-needed supplies. Ed Anderson (Xavier Samuel) and his friend Paddy Parker (Clarence John Ryan) go to the pictures, where a newsreel tells the latest news of Lionel ... [read more]
Winging it (1998)
You can view the animated short film Winging It here in its entirety. A young man (voiced by David Brown), far from home, writes to his family in Australia. The desert of Jordan reminds him of his grandfather who fought ... [read more]
The children’s plays (1986)
Kylie Tennant talks about how she came to write her collection of children’s plays. [read more]
A rogue crocodile (2007)
Allen (Geoff Morrell) is crawling from the river, apologising for his role in an escape attempt that ended in debacle, when the crocodile sneaks up behind him at lightning speed. [read more]
Removal of the columns (1942)
This unedited mute, black-and-white footage shows the columns of the Sydney GPO clock tower being removed in 1942. [read more]
‘What about the children?’ (1986)
Hughie (Martyn Sanderson), deputised by his wife to talk to Charlie (Shane Connor) about his Aboriginal origins, tries to put his concerns in terms of the children but only succeeds in alerting Charlie to the fact that Roie really does ... [read more]
The end of an era (1975)
This is an Australia Post television commercial (TVC) informing the public of the split of the Postmaster-General’s Department into two independent Commissions. [read more]
Travelling up the Strickland River (1979)
Malcolm Douglas travels up the Strickland River, a tributary of the Fly River, and meets the Bagwa men of Papua New Guinea. The Bagwa pull Douglas’s motorboat through the thick grassy swamp and invite him to join them on a ... [read more]
All that promise (2000)
Grant was an adorable child star who could dance and sing and play the drums. He gave it all away when the kids at school teased him about his work in television ads. Later when he tried to get back ... [read more]
Buddha and the Bodhi Tree (2001)
Dr Rachel Kohn takes us to India where the Buddha sat and meditated under the Bodhi Tree for four weeks, resolving to find the origin of suffering and the means to eliminate it. [read more]
The Alan Jones program (1995)
Sydney radio 'shock jock’ Alan Jones broadcasts his daily program for ordinary Australians. He specialises in contentious and volatile issues and exaggerates them to achieve high ratings. The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Robert Tickner, comments that his department is kept ... [read more]
Hide the shame (1999)
Val is sent away to have her illegitimate baby in secret. Her mother always wanted to have a 25th wedding anniversary party. While pregnant, Val can’t be seen by neighbours and friends, so her mother blames Val for having to ... [read more]
